Often when we promise ourselves we will carry on a task, one that will somehow improve our development, relationships or productivity, we find ourselves slouching back. Suddenly a long list of excuses pops, ranging from our inability to ‘not being in the right mood’. Weirdly enough we convince ourselves that it’s not a good idea, or it’s
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Top Tips to Dish Out and Deal With Criticism
Often, a simple discussion turns aggressive and unproductive when one person fails to point out mistakes gently and/or the other person fails to accept constructive criticism. To avoid such situations, we must bear some points in mind whilst pointing out mistakes as well as accepting criticism appreciatively. Dishing Out ‘Constructive’ Criticism Intention: If combined with the correct intentions, criticism can actually benefit others – something which we should be striving for. If you do not
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Essential Tools for Studying Productively (Part 1)
You look at your friend’s grade. Then you look at our own grade. A sudden wave of realization hits you. You are simply not doing well in studies. You look at your friend with curiosity and dismay. You both attend the same classes, but your friend takes the lead. You feel you can never catch
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How to Fight the Satanic Whispers
Life is full of ups and downs – we have times of joy and times of disappointment, we have our eman increase or decrease, sometimes we feel close to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala, and sadly at other times we turn away. We must identify if it is our nafs or Shaitan that’s deviating us or
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Productive Muslim Presence at DYP
Last month, ProductiveMuslim was invited to speak at Darussalam Youth Project (DYP). So we agreed to be a part of the conference (virtually, of course :))! DYP was the annual youth conference that was held in London on 22-24th April 2011. Below are two messages we shared with the DYP conference audience. And as always, we
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Book Review: The Ideal Muslimah
The Ideal Muslimah: The true Islamic personality of the Muslim woman as defined in the Qur’an and Sunnah. Author: Muhammad Ali Al-Hashimi translated by Nasiruddin Al-Khattab I’ve always found that buying presents for women is extremely easy, and now I have another suggestion to add to the list of recommended gifts – the book: ‘The
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