Stop Setting Goals, Set Systems Instead

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I finally released my new ebook — Guide to Islamic Productivity — Steps to Success in this Life and the Next:

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Guide to Islamic Productivity — Steps to Success in this Life and the Next

A Muslim’s guide to achieving success — in this life and the next — according to Islamic principles; not man-made... Read more

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This book is in line with the theme of the Iftar Table newsletter; not using hustle culture to improve your life, but rather, using Islām.

The book covers certain duas and acts of worship as well as sunnah activities and other deeds that a Muslim, like yourself, can use to see improvements in his or her wealth, health, business, fitness, relationships, deen etc.

This book is extremely beneficial because it does not waste your time by suggesting all the pseudo-productivity tips that you see online; things like cold showers, long meditation sessions, manifestation…no. Everything is straight from Islām.

Share this link with any of your Muslim friends who you think may be able to benefit from a Guide to Islamic Productivity.

Sharing this will be a weighty deed on your scale on the Day of Judgement.

Insha’Allah.

💌 LETTER TO THE MUSLIM 💌

Dear Muslim,

When you are working toward your goals, what’s good for you is to set systems in place.

This way, you get there with a lot less effort than you’re using now.

What usually happens is that too many of us try to do too much at once and get nowhere.

Use this template here instead:

🟡AUTO🟡

These are the things that you do day to day without thinking about it (automatically).

You’ve gotten so used to doing them that you exert little to no brain power to do it; examples include:

• Your five daily prayers

• Monday & Thursday fasting

• Reading a page of the Qur’an a day

• Going to work

Let these exist in your subconscious mind and stop thinking about them too much.

🟢PRESENT🟢

What you are currently working on.

These things deserve most of your brain power.

Work on these new projects until they become second nature and you can move them into the AUTO section.

Things such as:

• Starting to memorize a new juz of the Qur’an

• Starting a new business

• Cold calling a few clients a day

• Fitness (bulking, cutting, weight training, cardio etc)

• Studying for your driver’s license

🔴LATER🔴

The goals you wanna achieve farther down the line that you do not need to worry about currently.

Don’t touch these for now; if you try to add them to your plate now, you will have too much to focus on and you’ll get nowhere.

Focus on your PRESENT goals.

Later goals may be:

• Hajj

• Marriage

• Hijra

• A second business

Steal this template.

🚦BEFORE YOU GO🚦

Don’t forget to keep your brothers and sisters in places like Palestine, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, India, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and all over the world in your duas during these times.

And donate here to help them in any way you can; remember, our beloved Prophet ﷺ said:

“Charity does not decrease wealth.”

Additionally, I started a petition to shut down Project Nimbus; an Israeli service that allows the occupation to keep illegal tabs on Palestinians.

Sign here to shut down this project — it’s a very simple act that will, Insha’Allah, help the Palestinians greatly.

Jazakhallahu khayran

Abelard

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