The Barakah Culture Cards are now available for purchase at the Barakah Academy store. The Barakah Culture Cards serve as a training tool for professionals and teams to help them identify the mindsets, values, and rituals that promote barakah culture in their personal & professional lives. The purpose of the cards is to engage professionals
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How to Pick Yourself Up Post Ramadan
This article is a long one, but it’s for those of you who are serious about living the next best version of yourself post-Ramadan. Strategies, Tips, And Tools To Design Your Next Best Self Post-Ramadan Ramadan ended a few weeks ago, and by now you’re probably starting to settle back to your post-Ramadan routine. You
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Barakah Culture vs. Hustle Culture: How to Win More Days Without Losing Your Soul
Over the last few years, a new breed of motivational/self-help experts appeared on YouTube and wrote books on what many are now calling “Hustle Culture.” The ideas expressed by those operating within this community emphasize that to be successful you should always be working hard, getting the “impossible” done, and cutting sleep to start the
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Why You Need to Take Your & Your Loved One’s Mental Health More Seriously
It seems that a week doesn’t go by without yet another high-profile suicide that shocks the world. These are people who by all appearances were successful and achieved all that they wanted, yet they chose to take the plunge towards death prematurely. At the outset, I’m going to say that I’m not a mental health
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Productive Muslim Retreat 2019: How to Reset Your Life & Find Your Better Self
She raised her hand during the first session of our Productive Muslim Retreat and said “I don’t pray. I don’t see why I should pray. I don’t see the need to pray”. I thanked her for her honesty and asked her to simply experiment with praying with the group for the 7 days of the
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Why do you care about things that do not concern you?
If you were to boil productivity science down to one line, it’s “managing one’s energy, focus, and time for beneficial goals.” It looks simple, but it’s actually difficult and stressful for two reasons: Energy, focus and time are finite resources. Different priorities (work, family, social activities, etc.) fight for these resources. But there’s one principle
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