by Anum Ali on February 29, 2012
An effective and productive daily routine ensures personal, social, professional, and spiritual success for an individual, transforming one from ordinary into an extraordinary Muslim.
If you wake up without a productive daily routine, fit for a Muslim lifestyle, then it should not be surprising that you end up complaining about having too few hours in the day. A complete routine is a combination of spiritual, physical, mental, and social components.
There are several helpful personal management strategies and tools that can be used to support a productive routine. We’ll discuss some tools in this part.
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by Suraya Mahumed on February 27, 2012
You’ve seen them from a distance and probably never thought twice about what their lives might be like; mothers out there with their children, multitasking to some degree, all while appearing calm and collected. How do they do it you wonder? What is their secret?
It’s honestly all about timing. There are moments in the day that can be seized as the golden opportunities that they are; productive moments should you choose to utilize them.
It’s really what you do with your time that makes or breaks you. Keep in mind that everybody in the world has the same amount of time to work with in a day — 24 hours. Productivity takes practice and everything starts with organizing your plans and your goals.
Before you go to bed every night, make a list of five things you wish to accomplish the next day and include the time of day you’d like them to be done by. This simple method drastically reduces stress and is flexible enough for professional mothers as well as new mommies. What you don’t want to do is to over-schedule yourself by listing everything that can be done right down to the minute and second. Leave a lot of wiggle room for your “didn’t see that one coming” moments which, by the way, happen pretty often wherever children are involved. New moms: enjoy and embrace your exciting new lifestyle!
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by Abu Productive on February 26, 2012
by Abu Productive on February 24, 2012
**Reposted from December 2011**
It’s been our dream at ProductiveMuslim.com (and the demand of many of you!) to produce diaries that capture some of the concepts we advocate here at ProductiveMuslim.com for your daily use. Al-hamdulillah, this dream has come to reality this year with a partnership between ProductiveMuslim.com and a pioneering Islamic Gift company, Siratt.com.
Working closely with Siratt.com, we’ve infused some of ProductiveMuslim.com concepts into their popular lifebooks and we’ve stamped their lifebooks as”ProductiveMuslim certified”.
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So what have we added? And what’s different about these lifebooks compared to other diaries in the market?
For those not familiar with Siratt Lifebooks, these are one of the few Islamic diaries that are beautiful to own with and inspiring to work with each day. From the design, to the print quality, everything is carefully considered to give a final product that every Muslim would be proud to own.
ProductiveMuslim.com enhanced Siratt Lifebooks for their 2012 edition with 4 main features in order to make the Lifebooks useful for any Productive Muslim out there:
- First, we advocated for a 7 day full column view that allows you to make the most of each day of the week, including weekends! This is unlike conventional diaries that simply focus on the 5 working days (Mon-Fri) and provide little space to schedule anything for the weekend.
- Second, we added the concept of Time Blocking and Balanced Productivity to the lifebooks borrowing from our famous taskinator worksheet. These 2 concepts will help give focus to your day and ensure that you tackle the 4 major areas of your life (Islam, Work/School, Family and Personal Development) each day without compromising on any of them inshaAllah.
- Third, borrowing from our habitator worksheet, we’ve added a Habit List at the beginning of each month in the lifebook to help you keep track of good habits you want to develop and bad habits you’d like to stop each month.
- Finally, each week we’ve added a special tip from ProductiveMuslim.com to inspire you to stay productive each week and keep going with your life!
The Lifebooks are available to order from Siratt.com website and come in 5 lovely colours and a smaller pocket-size. Currently, these are based in the UK. We’re trying to seek distributors in other major cities so if you know anyone who would like to buy in bulk from us and sell it in your locality, please get in touch with us.
We hope that these new Siratt Lifebooks will allow you to apply ProductiveMuslim concepts and techniques each day of your life. And as always, if you got one, we’d love to hear your feedback, comments, or queries any time!
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Sincerely,
Abu Productive
by Beeworker on February 24, 2012
Have you ever wondered and reflected upon the beautifully comprehensive principles of 
productivity in Islam? It is fascinating that Islam, as a faith, has cultivated some of the most noble leaders and this is no accident or coincidence given the completeness of our religion in promoting productivity. As I’ve embarked on my own journey through Islam over the past years, the more I gain of knowledge the more I realise that the five pillars on which our faith is based is a recipe for productivity for every Muslim, provided we adhere to the teachings and take benefit from the lessons in it. In the article below, I thought of highlighting how the five pillars of our faith teach us productivity and ultimately provide actionable and practical benefits in order for us to become productive Muslims.
There are five beautiful lessons of productivity in Islam which can be derived from the teachings in the Quran and Sunnah. Here they are listed below:
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