EP47 – We're All Products With a MANUAL

I always get the question: how do you balance your time? I work full time as a project manager here in Dubai, I run Itqan Studio, I make content as Shareefico and host this podcast, I'm building my own products, and I have my Skool community. Spoiler alert: it's exhausting. And this is not a scheduling video.

What decides whether my day works is how good I've been with the Quran that day and that week. We're all products at the end of the day, and the manufacturer knows best how to use the product. The manual is the Quran. Allah says:
إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ تَنْهَىٰ عَنِ الْفَحْشَاءِ وَالْمُنكَرِ
Indeed, prayer prohibits immorality and wrongdoing (Quran 29:45). I also talk about why I keep going when there aren't many numbers to show for it, the 950 years Nuh (alayhi salam) spent calling his people, what his son and the mountain in Surah Hud teach us about pivoting, and the three things I'd tell anyone in the same trenches.

Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:18 The Barakah Blueprint intro
1:18 Who I am and why this podcast
2:57 How I balance everything
6:04 The manufacturer's manual
7:15 Prayer prevents (Quran 29:45)
10:06 Why I keep going with few results
11:30 Building takes time: lessons from the prophets
13:32 Nuh and his son in Surah Hud
16:19 My only advice: three things

Mentioned in this episode
EP46, lessons from rejection: https://open.spotify.com/show/6xe7clV2qEgB8XgGH2743N
Quran 29:45: https://quran.com/29/45
Quran 17:9: https://quran.com/17/9
Quran 11:43: https://quran.com/11/43
Quran 29:14: https://quran.com/29/14

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