Work hard, pray harder.

So much has changed over the past 3 years. I turned to Tumblr today, hoping to find an open safe place to talk, and maybe, to document the upcoming chapters of life.

For now, I am struggling to get out of a slump and settle into a new proper routine. There's much that needs to be done but I am getting nowhere with it.

Today, I would like to get done with the following:

Pray Dhuhr. Recite Quran. Revise Surah Rehman.

Get done with the last bit of organising my room.

Set up a study space so I can get in the flow of doing things.

Work on Goal K.

Go on the rooftop for a while.

Work on Goal A.

Register for the course I want to do.

So since I have summer vacations, my sleep schedule has become completely messed up. I have practically become a night owl 🦉 and it ain’t cool!

Since I have started the day soooo late, I plan to do some journalling that shall motivate me. The tasks for today are:-

•Make 2 important calls that I have been putting off for days now

•Listen to 6 online lectures

•Organise room (this one is going to take soo much time! I don’t have to reorganise my room because it’s messy, I just have some guests coming over. They will be staying in my room so............ 🌝)

(15-08-19)

Read Tafseer

Exercise

Pray Asr

Go out and enjoy the day

Read literature

Pray Maghrib

Talk to friends and confirm plans

Make a shopping list

Complete 10 online lectures

Log into Journal

Read Seerah and Hadith

From a gpa of 2.5 to 3.5

I am finally done with my fourth semester and I can’t thank Allah enough.

I started this challenge in March, when it was the beginning of my fourth semester. I didn’t plan to keep track of how productive I was each day and I actually ended up uninstalling tumblr so that I could save time by cutting social media time.

There were days when I would not achieve a single task and there were days when I pushed myself hard to do more. Overall, throughtout the semester, I always had it at the back of my head that I needed to do more this time.

Everytime I would almost doze off in class, I reminded myself that I needed to be more attentive

Everytime time the urge to procrastinate would emerge, I would force myself to study atleast a little for the quiz next day

Everytime I wanted to just hangout with my friends and waste all my time, I would push myself to go study in the library and finish the assignment before deadline

The result of all this?

Last semester I had scored zeros in 80 percent of my quizzes whereas this time I scored an 80 percent in all my quizzes.

Last semester, I had barely made it to the average score in mid exams wheres this time I performed better than average in all subjects.

Last semester, I was so stressed during my finals and barely covered all syllabus whereas this time, I only had to simply revise 70 percent of the syllabus because I had prepared it all beforehand

Last semester, I almost went crazy because of the stress and was worried if I would even pass ( I barely passed my subjects) whereas this time, I was saved from all the worrying and tension and I was confident that I would pass with atleast and average gpa.

Last semster, my gpa was around 2.5 whereas this time, I scored a 3.5! Alhamdulillah.

The point is, it’s not impossible to improve, it’s not impossible to change your score or yourself. All you need to so is take a few steps further. Just focus on improvement and you will, without doubt, improve. You can do this.

Beautiful and serene.

The past week for me was very stressful in terms of my studies. It’s just the second week of the semester and my mind is such a mess that all I want to do is sleepn in all day and not get out from my bed.

I slept at 7 p.m. last night and woke up today at 10 a.m. in the morning. (I did wake up before that but I just didn’t want to get out of my bed). I have been so unmotivated to do anything at all! Because of this, I even missed my class today that I feel absolutely horrible about.

I don’t know, I just don’t know if I will be ever able to become better, to get out of this deep hole. I know I will. I just need some help.

Anyway, I decided that I will start the 100 days challenge.

Now this challenge isn’t about suddenly changing myself completely or just expecting perfection or having a perfect streak of doing things right. Rather, it will be about taking small steps, very small baby steps in eliminating the bad habits from my life one by one, and adding the good things little by little.

Though it’s a hundred day challenge but I will be dividing it in parts for different goals. The number one rule is to not beat myself for making a mistake. That’s actually the only solid rule I will be following.

To breaking from bad habits,

And it begins.

Time lapse video of today’s sunset. Not the best angle but nevertheless, it’s beautiful subhanAllah.

As I was filming this video, I stared at the sky. I couldn’t notice a single movement of the clouds or any change and it made me realise something precious.

Slowly, subtly and beautifully everything was changing. The clouds were moving and changing shapes while the sun was setting. So subtly that I couldn’t notice it. That is the beauty of the Creation and it’s Creator.

Just like the sky, my Lord pays attention to me and every single detail of my life. He is constantly providing for me. He is constantly changing my situation and my surroundings to provide for me and accomodate me. My every breath is only by His permission. He is always blessing me with so many things but so smoothly that I don’t even realise it or have to ask for it.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

This was the number one most important lesson that I learnt from my first year at university. I spent my first year stressing so much about my grades and gpa that I completely stopped doing everything else. I stopped baking, going out and making plans with friends, I couldn't pay attention to my quran classes and skipped so many of them all because I wanted to study properly.

But guess what? I still didn't get a good grade. And this made me realise that I was doing all things the wrong way. My problem wasn't the lack of determination or because I wasn't smart enough or because I wasn't giving it enough time. My problem was my lack of focus, procrastinating so much of my work because I wanted things to be done the perfect way (even though I would be studying but I still wouldn't be studying and just stress out on how much stuff I had to do) and mismanagement of time (studying too much without actually learning anything, with an unfocused brain aka being unproductive)

My problem was in the way I was dealing with things.

So this year, now that I have realised my shortcomings, I want to concentrate on being productive and manage my time more efficiently. I want to overcome my inner perfectionist that makes me procrastinate so many of my tasks and develop a better and longer focus. In Sha Allah(if Allah Wills)

Salam everyone! I have just made my very first studyblr blog and if you are a new studyblr too, then I would love to follow you.

With my studyblr account, I hope to share inspiration and spread motivation through college posts etc. Moreover, I would love to share my university experiences and I want to get to know other studyblrs the same way too. So reblog/like this if you want me to follow you :)

Moreover, I will be sharing religious posts and tips on how to become a better Muslim. Being a Muslim student myself, I know how hard it can be to take out the time to worship and spend time learning the quran.

Some facts about me:

• I am 21 years old Muslim

• Pakistani

• I am a student of Quran (I am trying to learn more about my religion and become a better Muslim. Currently enrolled in a proper Quran course)

• I am doing bachelors in electrical engineering

• I love the color blue (that was quite random lol)

• I love bullet journalling! I will be sharing my bujo posts as well, especially islamic bujo spreads In Sha Allah

• I love food and chocolates and desserts and..I should stop yeah (seriously though, food is life)

• I am trying to become more fit physically (so I will be sharing some of that healthcare and get your body in shape kinda stuff to)

• My hobby is baking!

• My favourite sports is badminton

• I like to read