Being a truly productive Muslim entails understanding yourself well so that you can manage your weaknesses and leverage your strengths for maximum benefit in the dunya (this life) as well as the akhira (the Hereafter). This level of self-management does not always come naturally. In many cases, it requires another person who can take an
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App Review: Lift Me Up
Sometimes, even when we’ve got our goals listed down and we seem pretty sure of what needs to be done next, there may be some pauses greeting us along the way. Maybe we haven’t felt better since catching that flu bug two weeks ago. Maybe we came back home to find it being broken into.
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5 Steps to Help Execute Your To-Do List
Do you have a lot of things to do and not enough hours in the day to do them? Time management is something that everyone has indented into their lives. Some are good at it and some, not so much. Some use it as an excuse for missing the daily Salah or doing Dhikr. Time Management 101 is
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How to Be a Productive Patient (Part 3)
Turning to Allah and being a compliant, educated patient, which we discussed in detail in Part 1 and Part 2, are mostly concerned with the individual’s inner state and attitude toward their disease. However, human beings remain social creatures who need other people in their life to share their joys and sorrows with. As our
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How to Be a Productive Patient (Part 2)
Part 1 of this series covered medical-related advice that is meant to equip patients with the knowledge they need to manage their disease effectively as well as improve their quality of life and maintain good health. In Part 2, I move on to the spiritual tools, which every Productive Muslim cannot do without during any
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How to Start Building Your ProductiveMuslim Lifestyle
So you’ve read every ProductiveMuslim article/e-mail so far, you’ve attended our seminars and other seminars on being productive, active, focused, etc. The question in your mind: How do I put the knowledge in my mind into a practical solution that would help turn my life around? Build the Right Habits The key to turning around
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