Wahaj Tarin – The Habits of Successful People

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psychologists say that the most productive emotion is the emotion of gratitude.

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You know if in your heart you feel grateful, you will be very productive, you will be at the top of your game, you will be at your best

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and successful people as in people who are the heads of industry and who are CEOs and entrepreneurs in America successful by the definitions of man. They are people who will go to sleep and then wake up and then before they wake up the system is to kind of keep your eyes closed. And for the first couple of minutes, you just remember the favors that is in your life, you know, you go Thank God, my eyes work, my body is working. Alhamdulillah I am alive. Look, I have a bed, oh my god, I have a blanket. There's a roof over me that Do you understand me. And as you go through this, it sets the tone for your day. And it's a tone of gratitude which build success.

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Now they have discovered this now, you know, in the 2000s.

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To be grateful. Now let's look at your dean. And the Dean of Muhammad Ali he of de la sala to automata. Slim, when the soul was alive, it was in the desert.

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Now the desert is very hot.

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The water is very scarce. With limited water, food is very scarce. with food limited for your hungry wealth is very scarce. And when the people from Makkah migrated to Medina, there wasn't much shelter either because it was so far they used to be sitting in a sleeping outside.

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So the Prophet taught these people with such little physical wealth, that before you wake up or as you wake up, you say

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Alhamdulillah hin levy.

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Yeah, ba da, tena y la hinzu.

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Thank you, Rob, for giving me life, after having taken it from me last night into you with my return. And you say it and Arabic but you don't know its meaning your mom and dad told you and most of you don't even say it I can vouch for you.

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But they were Arabs. You see, they spoke in their own language. So to him, it was thank you for giving me life again. Not just wealth, life again. Can you imagine what did to his psyche?

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And then he goes to the bathroom, he finishes What does he say? Alhamdulillah Thank you for taking away the filth from me. He eats Alhamdulillah he drinks Alhamdulillah his whole life was gratitude. And psychologists say to be at the top of your game as in a be a more successful version of yourself. You need to be grateful. Do you see when I tell you that the Dean was designed to make you successful on the you have an Have a look at this. I studied the life of successful according to you know human definitions, you know heads of industry entrepreneurs, leaders of big institutions Prime Minister, I said and research their lives and I found certain traits, you know they are all early

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risers. They wake up very early, all of them almost unanimous.

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They wake I read you know between four o'clock and six o'clock is their wake up time although work starts of mine.

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Yes, they wake up early. So what do you do? They don't answer emails, they wake up and they meditate.

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Or they read what they call motivational texts

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to inspire them for the rest of the day to you know to pick them up.

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And what do you do or what the dean prescribed for you to do in the morning?

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After you have said, you know your ham Do you wake up you do your will do you stand in salah and fudger as long recitations of the most motivational texts man has ever to know the Divine Word of Allah Himself.

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And then you sit him down

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Yo WIDA Do you I've gotta try this for those of you who haven't tried to sit in, do your car for 30 minutes, you know before you go see what that does to you for the rest of the day.

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I do my width in the car and these days because you know, fudger is light. And I tell you and I don't say just, you know, to blow my own trumpet, but I, by the time I get to work, my heart is dancing like Allahu Akbar. Let's go.

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Why? Cause the Dean was made to give you the best of this life and the best of the next