For the Listening Heart

"Verily, therein is indeed a Reminder for him who has a Heart or gives ear while he is heedful" (Qur'an, Surah Qaf 50:37)

Saturday, August 28, 2021

"Abah tak boleh main toys Muawiyah!" - A parenting reflection: Pick Your Battles

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While our 3-year-old Muawiyah was playing with his toy cars and monster trucks, narrating his imaginary stories, I decided to sit down with ...
Saturday, August 21, 2021

Spilled juice - A Defining parenting moment

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  Recently, while our 3-year old boy Muawiyah got excited in his storytelling and happily waved his hands, he clumsily knocked over his glas...
Sunday, August 15, 2021

Quran is a Cure: “Yet why am I not feeling the effects?”

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  وَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ الْقُرْءَانِ مَا هُوَ شِفَآءٌ وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلاَ يَزِيدُ الظَّـلِمِينَ إَلاَّ خَسَارًا  “And We Reveal the...
Saturday, August 14, 2021

Caring for Our Mental Health: Practice Empathy with our leaders and those above us, too!

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  In the recent Leadership townhall, one of the striking highlights of the Leadership Team (LT) conversation was the President’s own person...
Friday, August 13, 2021

Caring for Our Mental Health: Practicing Empathy with those under our care

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  In our recent company engagement, I noticed a recurring theme that kept coming up time and time again: is for all leaders to practice EMP...
Monday, August 09, 2021

"Panjang umur" - Nikmat atau azab? 🤔 #Birthday

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  Antara doa yang selalu diungkapkan di kalangan orang Melayu adalah "semoga panjang umur dan murah rezeki" - doa feveret untuk p...
Friday, August 06, 2021

Caring for our Mental Health: Discovering Passion & Purpose

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  In recent meetings #WorkingFromHome, there was a striking observation about how some colleagues responded to do some urgent work at night ...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Caring for our Mental Health: Open up to someone you trust, and most importantly… ALLOW others to help and console us #whiteflag

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  Perhaps due to our upbringing or nurturing from our external environment, many of us tend to keep to ourselves, sometimes even subconsciou...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Non-judgmental listening: A life-changing skill we can develop to aiding the mental health of people around us

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  Last year, I subscribed to a course on building mental/emotional resilience. In one of the exercises, we performed a classroom exercise ca...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

"Satisfying": Five Reflections of Our Hajj Journey @ 2015 (1436AH)

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Alhamdulillah - all Praises and Thanks to Allah - Who enabled for us to compete our Hajj when we were 31 years of age. For many years I have...
Thursday, July 08, 2021

How I developed a reading habit Tip #3: Habit Replacement with Social Media / YouTube #powerofhabit #atomichabits

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  “How do you find time to read?” Here is my strategy: By replacing all my social media habits with reading e-books instead. Every time I ...
Sunday, July 04, 2021

Books I have Read in 2021 (First Half)

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Alhamdulillah. Continuing the growth habit I developed in 2020 since the lockdown, these are the books that I have finished reading so far i...
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