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Okay, so here’s my greatest secret of how to achieve your life goal. That greatest secret begins with answering one simple question for yourself. The question is, is this my life goal? Is this my life goal? Now you might say well you know, obviously it is. I mean why should I have to answer this question? Why should I have to ask this question? I’m saying that because in my experience many people like this term life goal. It’s one of these, you know, I don’t know what you call them. It’s one of these words that are bandied about. Many people talk about life goal. This is my life goal. That’s my life goal. But they don’t understand what is the meaning of life goal. A life goal is something that you are going to dedicate your life to. A life goal is something that you will be recognized by the achievement of that or working towards. A life goal is something that at the end of your life you are going to turn around look at it and say now that was a life well lived because it was a life that was lived achieving or trying to achieve this goal and I’m combining the two because depending on the life goal sometimes you may not be able to fully achieve it and there is no need to punish yourself. There’s no need to feel, you know, terrible about that because even if you depending on the magnificence of the goal in some cases it is really commendable for you to be able to achieve that goal even partially rather than live a life without meaning. So I think that therefore I combine the two. I say achieve or try to achieve. So this is what a life goal is. So ask yourself and then decide for yourself is this goal of mine a life goal or is it merely a hobby because many people mistake life goals for mistake hobbies for life goals. They say this is my life goal but actually it’s only a hobby because it’s something that they like to talk about is something they like to feel good about and they say oh but you know my life goal is to become an airline pilot or you say my life goal is to sing or play in the opera or something you know one of these great things and then you ask them well okay fantastic it’ll sound good so what are you doing about that and you discover that they are doing very little because and that’s the reason I’m saying determine and be clear with yourself about is it really a life goal because if it is a life goal then you are going to be spending or you should be spending the maximum amount of time on this goal not do it once in a while on weekends when you’re free you when you have nothing else to do that’s not a life goal that’s a hobby and that’s nothing wrong with having hobbies what is wrong is to confuse the hobby for a life goal and to call a hobby a life goal because a hobby is not a life goal a hobby is a hobby if it is a life goal then it is something that you are going to be dedicating your entire life to that and it’s something that you will get the maximum satisfaction when you are done that it was a life well lived so define this and be very clear in your mind that what you are embarking on is a life goal now if you want to achieve the life goal we come to the the so-called secret and that secret is to create a structure is to create a structure and a timetable now I will tell you this again from my experience that the secret of efficiency the secret of productivity is not intelligence it’s not even hard work I mean it does take hard work I mean let me not discount that it does take hard work but it is structure it’s hard work done according to a system it’s not just random hard work it is hard work done according to a system that is what gives you the maximum productivity in any situation hard work done according to a system this is what adds it gives wings to your goals and to your to the achievement of the goals which is a system and that system I call this structure so the structure would be to begin with it would be the your timetable for the day what time will you wake up to what time do you go to bed please understand and remember and my I say this to everybody that this whole theory of the fact that you need eight hours of sleep is as far as I am concerned bugger because eight hours of sleep is one third of your life 33% of your life ask yourself are you willing to kiss goodbye to 33% of your life I’m saying kiss goodbye because I don’t know of anyone who achieves anything while they are sleeping so if you’re talking about achievement the first requirement of achievement is that you need to be awake you cannot be achieving anything if you are faster sleep no one does neither will you so if you are going to be faster sleep 33% of your life then I don’t know what you think you will achieve I don’t think you will achieve anything so you need to be able to live on less sleep than that obviously we need sleep it’s not that if we don’t need any sleep but we don’t need to dedicate 33% of our life to sleep in my experience in life four hours a day is ample it’s plenty and with four hours a day if you during the middle of the day you might feel a bit drowsy take a power nap of 15 minutes by the clock set a certain alarm 15 minutes and you will come out come out of that completely rejuvenated you know absolutely alive so reduce the amount of sleep that you do put a structure to the day so wake up early pray the Hajjut read one Juz of Quran pray Salatul Fajar in the Masjid and begin your day that way because if you begin your day that way and Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala becomes your field becomes responsible for you and your day and that’s a wonderful thing to do and that’s a wonderful way to begin your day and then from there you go on and set your schedule it’s usually a very good idea to do some aerobic exercise in the morning which is I walk every day I walk in the morning after Fajr and I walk six miles so decide how much you want to walk I would suggest five miles is the minimum that you should walk which is 10,000 steps and as somebody said if good health could be encapsulated and sold in a bottle I would say that was 10,000 steps anyone who walks 10,000 steps is guaranteed to have good health throughout his or her life inshallah so walk in the morning running is something which is debatable because our body was not created for running it was created for walking and over the years I have many friends who were great runners and then their knees gave out because of the impact so it’s a high impact exercise cycling is fantastic because it has no impact and so walking and cycling if you feel like running that’s your call they’re your knees but physical exercise aerobic exercise long walks are also an excellent way of for reflection introspection and by yourself don’t have if you have somebody with you a friend with you it’s nice but have this agreement and arrangement with your friend that neither of you will talk walk in silence walk in silence and do that you know I mean every day long walk so five miles 10,000 steps and that’s how your day begins and then the rest of the day so you have your breakfast and whatnot and I have a cup of coffee that’s my breakfast with a with a biscuit and then I get on with my work so you know I mean I obviously come back from my walk have a shower and stuff I’m not going into the details I mean I suppose all that is clear or should be clear so do or do that do whatever suits you in whichever order it suits you but do that there’s a deer where I’m looking at so when you finish your your walk and so on the rest of the day set your goals for the day and operate according to that as I said four hours of sleep are more than enough I also eat one meal a day in 24 hours so that is something you might think about it’s a it’s a fantasy that we think that we need three meals a day you don’t need three meals a day you need one we need one meal a day that’s more than our nutrition 21 million 24 hours is plenty and four hours of sleep and that will free you up to do some useful stuff and to achieve your life goal which as I said we believe it’s important for us so let us be very clear in our minds and that’s the reason I said make sure that you really want to achieve your life goal it’s not magic it won’t happen by itself it will happen if you do it in this way as I am explaining to you then we come to the end of the day you had your meal maybe you had your little power nap and you come to the end of the day and you end the day as I mentioned before with your assessment for the day so your assessment what did I do how did my day look like how much of my goals did I achieve what was missing and therefore the next day what will I do differently
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