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 NEXUS LETTER:
It is likely you are here today because you are someone who has
consistently been running out of time, falling short on your goals, cannot
maintain any form of structure or perhaps suffering from confusion on
where to even start.

It is likely you are suffering from poor aspects oftime management and you
seek proven techniques and solutions to assist you in methods that will
work. This is where I come in and I am here to assist you.

You can optimize and achieve proper time management, work towards
your goals and ultimately live a better life. It is completely possible despite
the circumstances you are in or narratives you have given yourself.

We will go over how to rid ourselves and eliminate certain setbacks which
holds us back such as laziness or procrastination.

We will work towards eliminating these harms that ultimately contribute

to stress that accompanies poor time management.

The methods we will go over will be delivered in simplified manner that

you may easily absorb the knowledge and implement it through directed
and actionable steps.

We will now move on to our first mission: Tracking.

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 Mission One

Time Management:
Tracking
contents
Understanding Time Properly
01
What is Time Management?
02
Foundational Learning
03
Awareness
04
Tracking
05

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 Understanding Time Properly
finite, non-renewable resource
The most important thing we must remember is that
time is from the non-renewable resources which we
cannot get back once lost. In this worldly life, we have a
finite amount of time given to us. A short, limited time
span which we have lost many portions in great
abundance. Imagine a ticking time bomb rests around
your heart, you will be very conscious and aware along
with a stern attitude with regards to how you spend your
time and where it goes to.
In reality, we do have something of similitude to a time
bomb — though we are unaware of when our last second
or last breath will be. If we are to truly ponder, we would
arrive at the conclusion that the way we move in this
world must be very calculated. We simply cannot afford
to spend it in time-wasting matters.
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Realizing this, we must work to identify what habits and
behaviors are working in our favor in order to expand in
intensification of these. Thus, building a momentum around
this in our favor will easily bridge the gap between desiring to
accomplish a task and actually doing it. When one is coming
forth with proper leverage, it becomes far easier to
accomplish a task. Just as we desire for magnifying good
habits and behaviors, on the flip side we want to rid ourselves
of habits and behaviors that no longer serve us and cut them
off indefinitely.
If I told you to hold onto clothing you have long outgrown,
you will only likely be contributing to unnecessary clutter and
soon there will be havoc in storage spaces. That which we no
longer need, we must rid ourselves of it. We will get more
into the formulation, instillation, and deletion of habits in the
future. Now, let us move onto our first micro lesson.
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 Time is what
we want most,
but what we
use worst.

What is Time Management?

Defining, Principles, Adjustment &
Perception

We must understand because time is a finite source, its value increases. This time eventually depletes
from the clutches of our hands like sand beneath the cracks of our fingers. We realize then that we
cannot speed time nor press “rewind.” It is surely not something we can control in context of
manipulation, addition and subtraction. What one can do is learning how to properly manage oneself and
manage how one uses their limited time. Therefore, what we take from this to be able to adjust the
perception towards time. Once we see ourselves as a thing to be managed, we will remove the possibility
of blaming time itself. How many a people do you see blaming time. “There are only twenty four hours!”
“I simply do not have enough time” “The reason I cannot commit is because of my lack of time.” “I’m so
busy, if only there was more time!”
The concept of time management is a well-known methodology. We wish to be able to effectively and
consciously make use of time in a way which will aid us in being proactive and increase one in efficiency.
This is a learned skill set which will be a necessity in context of your growth. Managing yourself
properly comes from a few principles: Setting Goals, Planning, Prioritizing, Focus, Delegation,
Eliminating Distractions , Saying “NO” and Rest & Recovery.
Once you manage yourself and work towards how you spend your time, you will really begin to take
forward steps towards long-term changes. We will discuss this further in later lessons.
Let us continue forward and work towards how we can understand time management properly.

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 PRINCIPLES
to managing yourself

01
GOAL
SETTING
02 PLANNING

PRIORITIZING 03

04 FOCUS

DELEGATION 05
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 PRINCIPLES
to managing yourself

ELIMINATE
DISTRACTIONS 06

07 SAYING
“NO”

REST
& 08
RECOVERY

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 Foundational
Learning
Correct Understanding
on Time Management
Foundational Learning: Realizing before
engaging to learn anything, it is important to
properly get an understanding based on what
you are learning, Time Management is not a
matter which one simply jumps into. I am sure
there are many courses, ebooks, videos,
podcasts and applications which state: “As long
as you learn from this, you will properly
change.” In order to make this skill effective,
you must have an understanding before
engaging into it. You need to work to learn
how to possess the necessary tools in the
correct manner in order for it to be able to
properly assist you. Now that you have this
insight, let us return back to time management.

How do we properly get a correct

understanding on Time Management? Let us
start with Awareness.

For the one who does not value time, they

would not be from those who consistently take
into account how they are spending their time.
Those who are truly aware will remind
themselves that this time is a finite source and
we only have a limited amount of it. Therefore,
we must make use of it properly, effectively,
and wisely.

In this first mission, we will start to work on awareness. Turn to the next page for more insight.

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 Awareness
Awareness is a necessity.

Many of the people in this age of distraction are
aimlessly wandering without engaging in what is
called conscious living. Conscious living
requires from you heightened levels of
awareness, whether that be in speech, thought,
habit or behaviors.
What does awareness have to do with time
management? Awareness will help you discover
where your time is going, what time-wasting
activities are causing us to lose it unnecessarily
and how one can utilize this in the future.
Returning back to the concept of Foundational
Learning, we will realize again the importance of
movement by insight. We act based on knowledge.
What many desire to do when they wish to optimize
their time properly, they will attempt to possess a “busy
schedule.”
How many times have we heard someone advise
another: “Just get busy. Fill your schedule until you no
longer get bored and spend time doing this harmful
activity. Be so overworked you do not have to think
about it.”
This in reality is an extremely misguided approach to
time.

From the matters the people engage in when they desire to make better use of their time is they will time block
and state: “At this time I will accomplish this. And from this time to this time I will do this.” They immediately
begin to plan their day and time. This isn’t exactly the best approach to start. Simply filling your schedule will
do you more harm than good. Here is where our first mission will come into play.
Mission 1: Tracking: Take out a piece of paper and begin noting down where your time is currently going.
This will be immensely beneficial by simply engaging in this process.
Why would this be beneficial? It is simply because this all connects back to heightened awareness.
Take a look on the next page for further explanation.

“Awareness is a great agent to

change.”
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Mission 1: Tracking
becoming a people moving with awareness
What is the benefit of heightened awareness by
tracking? Let us say a swimmer is meant to engage
in a race amongst his rivals in an upcoming
swimming competition. During training, the
swimmer’s coach will pull out a stopwatch to track
how long it takes for him to go from one side of the
pool to the other side. Simply tracking the
swimmer’s timing will give him a vantage point over
one who does not properly track his progress. To
name but two reasons why this will provide an
advantage, the first: Tracking will automatically
help increase the swimmers performance because
the swimmer will possess the insight of the amount
of time spent going from a set distance. Thus, the
swimmer is able to consistently improve on that
knowledge and work towards breaking the record.
As opposed to the one who is simply swimming
without timing oneself, this individual will not have
a gauge to which one may seek to reach or
overcome. The second point would be, again,
heightened awareness. This swimmer would be
more conscious of what positions, habits, and
behaviors are negatively impacting his timing in
reaching the other side of the pool. Thus, his
performance will heavily increase once he rids
himself of these wounding behaviors.
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What reason did I provide for you such a
detailed example? Just as the swimmer is able to
identify his bad behaviors harming his
performance, you too will be able to identify
toxic and detrimental daily activities working
towards your downfall. This is a byproduct of
tracking: you will be able to identify time-
wasting behaviors which could possibly affect
your focus which in turn would affect your
performance; for better or for worse. Tracking is
from the most incredible skills used by
successful individuals. These individuals track a
multitude of matters from: nutrition, fitness,
time spent honing a skill, where one’s money
goes/spent/invested, improvement between
family members, sleep, and so much more.
Therefore, for our first mission: Your
responsibility is to grab a piece of paper and
from this moment until the end of the week, you
are to track where your time goes. Doing it for
even a few days will provide tremendous insight
as to where your time is going. The goal will be
to track our life properly in order to bring
ourselves immense satisfaction and that our
goals be drawn near.
 Mission 1: Tracking
becoming a people moving with awareness

As I noted before, awareness and measuring are from the most important matters
to managing and improving our behaviors. You will be surprised how much your
time is being wasted, where it is going, and how incredibly regretful one could
become after properly tracking. We will talk more about management in the
upcoming micro-mission. However, as for now your exercise will be executing
tracking.

You may think of this to be a silly exercise, or perhaps you may think: “Trust me, I
already know where my time is going and it simply isn’t working. That is why I am
here today!” The reason you are also here today is because you are completely
unaware of these habits that are causing you long-term damage. Otherwise, you
would have already have engaged in course adjustment long ago. If you truly were
aware that is.

Now that you have made it this far, you must slowly work towards application of
this knowledge. Let us discuss what steps to take from here in order to implement
it. Let us become a people who track and engage in deep self analysis in order to
take strides towards further development.

Congratulations! If you have made it this far, you have reached completion in the nexus letter.

Turn the page in order to find the actionable steps to apply what you have learned.
You will also find “note” pages for you to jot down any ideas, notes, or use it to track your daily activities.
Happy learning!

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 ACTION STEPS
Time to apply what you have learned!

TASK 1
Begin tracking the daily activities you spend during the day from sunrise to sunset for the
next week. By the end of the week, you will meet with your advisor to discuss which habits
are contributing to your benefit or your harm.

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 ACTION STEPS
TASK 1

One manner of tracking this is by the end of each hour, you may note down what you spent doing on the
previous hour and carry on this way until the end of the day. Or, if you are fairly confident in your ability
to remember: you may wait until the end of the day to track everything. I suggest the former, this is
because you are less likely to forget what was completed.

You do not necessarily have to do it hourly, however, I do suggest you keep your notepad near you for the
next few days.

We are currently going to analyze the larger picture in order to get a wider scale and identify which
habits are causing our immediate destruction and slowly work towards management in the next
mission.

Now let us get started with application!

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 ACTION STEPSExample of Tracking:
Take the example of this woman who tracked her daily
activities.

1. Alarm Rings
2. Hit snooze, remain on bed for some time
3. I pray fajr, sometimes with concentration -
sometimes without.
4. Sometimes I rush to do adkhar
5. Hair remains undone
6. Doesnt change clothing, yesterday’s clothing
remains on
7. Fall asleep
8. Wake up at Nine AM
9. Still sleepy, go back to bed for a few minutes
1 0 .S o m e t i m e s I w a k e u p a t 1 0 , s o m e t i m e s I g e t
up and go exercise
11. Check WhatsApp, Instagram
12.Exercise
13.Listen to Quran/Beneficial Lecture
14.Get off training machine (fitness)
15.Sometimes fall back asleep if I finish early
See next page for continued tracking log.

One manner of tracking this is by the end of each hour, you may note down what you spent doing on the previous hour
and carry on this way until the end of the day. Or, if you are fairly confident in your ability to remember: you may wait
until the end of the day to track everything. I suggest the former, this is because you are less likely to forget what was
completed. You do not necessarily have to do it hourly, however, I do suggest you keep your notepad near you for the
next few days.
We are currently going to analyze the larger picture in order to get a wider scale and identify which habits are causing
our immediate destruction and slowly work towards management in the next mission.
Now let us get started with application!
 ACTION STEPSExample of Tracking:
Take the example of this woman who tracked her daily
activities.

16. Sometimes I eat breakfast, Sometimes I dont

17. I go study, I sleep
18. I go to class lecture and study
19. I read a book
20. I check Instagram & WhatsApp
21. Talk to family and discuss matters
22. Check my apps
23. Schedule is messed up
24. Keep going back on phone
25.Eating junk or sweets in excess
26. Not drinking enough water
27. Praying dhuhr/asr with little concentration
28. Distracted with conversations with family
29. Skip Islamic class, go to review
30. on phone, texting outside allotted Period
31. Did not read seerah
32. Pondering over school
33. Scrolling on Instagram stories
Continued on next page

One manner of tracking this is by the end of each hour, you may note down what you spent doing on the previous hour
and carry on this way until the end of the day. Or, if you are fairly confident in your ability to remember: you may wait
until the end of the day to track everything. I suggest the former, this is because you are less likely to forget what was
completed. You do not necessarily have to do it hourly, however, I do suggest you keep your notepad near you for the
next few days.
We are currently going to analyze the larger picture in order to get a wider scale and identify which habits are causing
our immediate destruction and slowly work towards management in the next mission.
Now let us get started with application!
 ACTION STEPSExample of Tracking:
Take the example of this woman who tracked her daily
activities.

34. Not spending time on personal growth, not

focusing on MYSELF
35. Spending little time with Quran, not
contemplating
36. Maghrib
37. Talking with family, did not properly remember
Allah today
38. Did not pray Nawafil
39. Eating Dinner
40. Either talking/eating/phone
41. Not near technology after maghrib
42. Isha
43. Skincare
44. Sleep

An example of tracking whilst not providing the

time/hour around the task. I highly encourage you
to track with time, if you are able. If you are
unable: divide the categories from morning,
afternoon, evening to get greater insight on your
day.

One manner of tracking this is by the end of each hour, you may note down what you spent doing on the previous hour
and carry on this way until the end of the day. Or, if you are fairly confident in your ability to remember: you may wait
until the end of the day to track everything. I suggest the former, this is because you are less likely to forget what was
completed. You do not necessarily have to do it hourly, however, I do suggest you keep your notepad near you for the
next few days.
We are currently going to analyze the larger picture in order to get a wider scale and identify which habits are causing
our immediate destruction and slowly work towards management in the next mission.
Now let us get started with application!
 reflection
Reflection hour is a time one should spend without distraction reflecting over the
course of one’s life. Use this time to ask important questions and reflect over your
findings whether by observing that which you have tracked or other than that.
 reflection
Reflection hour is a time one should spend without distraction reflecting over the
course of one’s life. Use this time to ask important questions and reflect over your
findings whether by observing that which you have tracked or other than that.
 reflection
Reflection hour is a time one should spend without distraction reflecting over the
course of one’s life. Use this time to ask important questions and reflect over your
findings whether by observing that which you have tracked or other than that.
 reflection
Reflection hour is a time one should spend without distraction reflecting over the
course of one’s life. Use this time to ask important questions and reflect over your
findings whether by observing that which you have tracked or other than that.
notes
notes
notes
notes
notes
 Mission 1:
Completed
This concludes the first portion of the Time Management Course: Mission #1.
Be sure to apply what you have learned.
Speak to you shortly!

Umm Junaynah
AUTHOR EDUCATOR COUNSELOR

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