The Productive Muslim Podcast – Season 2 Ep 2

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			Assalamu alaikum productive Muslims. Welcome to the show. I'm your host me for my roof and I am here
with Season Two of the podcast. So season two features the pre Ramadan boot camp. These are going to
be short daily podcast, which are going to help you best prepare for the blessing month so that when
Ramadan comes you'll be up and running and ready to make the most out of it. So with this pre
Ramadan Bootcamp, we want to make this interactive and want to hear from you. So with all our
activities, and tasks that we will be speaking about in each episode, please do comment on those
episodes by heading over to productive Muslim podcast.com slash season two. So they you will find
		

			the episodes there. And please do let us know how the particular activity went. Or any questions or
any thoughts that you have on it. Alright, so now let's start off with our episode for today.
		

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			All right, so I want to ask you a question. You see how we start something new. So say we start a
new class we maybe decide to join join the gym or anything, then the first few days, we're generally
like really excited about it. We engage we turn up on time. And he you know, we tell everyone we
might even post a status about it on Facebook, Snapchat at all our family of friends, look at me,
I'm at my new class or gym. And then when you fast forward a bit more, say week one, week two, which
is completely forget that we signed up for it. And then later on, we just feel completely guilty
that oh my god, I signed up for that program and I didn't get to finish it. Can you relate to this?
		

			Because I know I can. And my gosh, it is frustrating. And this is a thing? Why is it that at the
start of joining something, we get all excited? And then after some few weeks, we feel like oh, I
don't know if I want to do this anymore. So how do we overcome this trap? And the way we do so is by
going back and asking ourselves the Why? So why are we doing this? Now? I know. I mean, you can be
thinking, Well, you know me for this is really obvious. We all know why we're doing it. There's good
deeds, and you know all those generic things you can say but no doubt, yes, doing things for the
sake of alone doing good deeds engaging in good actions do have the benefits to them. Now, what I'm
		

			asking you in particular is to really clarify the why behind it. That is deep, that is personal to
you. Because each one of us has different motivations. I mean, for one person, or why say taking the
gym example again, why can be to just get active and more fit for another person gym can be in order
to help them lose weight. So you see, each person has a different way. And the exercise of this
particular episode is to identify your why. So why are you doing this program? Why is program
meaningful for you? And why should you care to continue? Now, I want you to write this down onto a
paper so that way you can be able to just write down anything that comes to mind. If you don't like
		

			to writing like big paragraphs and you can just write in dot points because I know that also works
for many people as well. So anything that comes to mind just write down your why Okay,
		

			maybe can be like last month last year, Ramadan just went really quickly and I didn't get to plan
for it. Or maybe maybe it was that you didn't get to make the most out of Ramadan last year or just
certain things that come to mind. Why do you want to participate in this pre Ramadan boot camp? Now
we all know the famous Hadees by Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi Salaam in which he said actions are
judged by intentions. So by clarifying your actions behind this program, and asking yourself why you
want to get ready for Ramadan, you can be able to better follow through with it. Because you see the
way this works is that halfway when your motivation goes down
		

			You can be able to refer back to this piece of paper. And now this is the importance of writing it
down so that you have something physical to come back and refer to. So that is the activity for
today. Ask yourself, Why do you want to participate in this program? Why do you want to get ready
for Ramadan? Now a few things along with this, is we want you to watch the TED Talk. And this is a
TED talk, which speaks about the importance of starting with why so you can be able to connect this
concept with the idea of intentions in Islam. And do let us know your thoughts about this on our our
show notes on our websites are productive muslim.com. And the second thing to do is go ahead and
		

			write down your answer on a sheet of paper, you can write it down on, you know, on a Google document
in Evernote, or wherever you write down your notes. And just ask yourself, why am I taking this 30
day bootcamp with productive Muslim? What's the larger purpose I need to fulfill now there is no
right and wrong answer. It's different for every single person so you don't have to get really
caught up in it. And you don't have to take a lot of time to write this either. You can just sit
down for 15 minutes 10 minutes, and just write down what comes to mind and keep this note aside so
that you can be able to refer back to this later on. Alright, so to wrap up, please do post up your
		

			why's over on our show notes. I've created a easy to remember short link to that can be accessed by
writing productive Muslim podcast.com slash s two, e two. So that's pretty much season two, Episode
Two. So do check that out. Otherwise, you can also access the show notes by just heading over to our
main website, productive muslim.com so I look forward to hearing about your why's on joining the pre
Ramadan boot camp and inshallah I'll see you tomorrow with our next episode. Till then remember, be
sincere and work hard.