Give yourself rewards:For example, when it’s the first time to go to the gym or join a sports class, you’ll have a really hard time motivating yourself to get to it. So set a goal that if you go to it today, then you’ll have your favorite healthy snack. Overcome procrastination...
A charitable cause in this sense need not be something huge in terms of financial consideration. It could be anything from volunteering at a nearby orphanage, soup kitchen, organizing a clothes collection to give to the needy or simply feeding one needy person with a meal a day. Once you ...
Khushoo is a means and a consequence. Khushoo is a consequence of true faith and yaqeen (certainity) upon the words of Allah [SWT] and on the accountability of our actions. It is a means to gain tranquility in this racing, tempting world and to make us worthy of entering Jannah. ...
himself share one quality: going to bed early.Ramadan is a period where a Muslim must strive to be at his productive best. Start training yourself for Ramadan by going to bed early and practice waking up for Fajr so that you face less difficulty waking up when the holy month arrives. Faj...
Ihsanmay sometimes require you make an extra effort to do what isn’t your duty to keep the peace. For example, where there is money in involved, justice says that you take what belongs to you, ihsan here can be that perhaps it is better to give up something from your right to keep...
Ask Allah to give you strength, sabr, and ease throughout the entire journey, not just the five days of Hajj! Have tawakkul in Allaah. Any time you face a hardship during you travels or throughout the journey (like if you get lost, or left behind, or weak and sick), don’t panic...
Under those circumstances, you’ll often tell yourself you ran out of time,but actually you just ran out of attention to give. Your attention is a currency to be spent, and if you choose to give away as much as 80% of your attention to meetings, don’t be surprised if that final 20...
“And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient.” [Qur’an: Chapter 2, Verse 155]. So the question is, how can we overcome the losses, challenges, and disappointments that are inevitable...
I want to go a level deeper with you and give you a real pro tip. This is for the productivity professionals out there. You can play with the above system so you reduce the variance between your earliest summer wake-up time and earliest winter wake-up time. This way, you don’t go...
it can be used to give our mood a little boost. Remember that this method should be applied in moderation. We keep a bag of small dark chocolate (semi-sweet) chocolate chips in the refrigerator.Whenever any of us needs a tiny pick-me-up, we reach for a small handful of chocolate chip...