36.0 Dangers of Mistaking Tolerance for Empathy

36.1 What is "Dangers of Mistaking Tolerance for Empathy"?

Throughout our lives, there are countless times when we feel empathised and tolerated towards people. This is especially true for nice people. Both tolerance and empathy are initiated on goodwill. The implications, however, differ to one another. How many of us realise the times we mistake tolerance for empathy? Being mindful of what differentiates tolerance and empathy will enable us to be better in living our day-to-day lives.

35.0 Communicate Confidently

35.1 What is "Communicate Confidently"?

We communicate on a daily basis. Be it for leisure or business, we desire to be confident in our communication. The question is: what do great speakers have in common that allow them to exude confidence?

32.0 The Key in Sky Rocketing Your Potentials

32.1 What is "The Key in Sky Rocketing Your Potentials"?

There are three motivation drivers when it comes to unleashing your potentials: money, accountability and culture. Each of the three has their own pros and cons which relatively results in your level of growth for your potentials. With that being said, which is the key in sky rocketing your potentials?

31.0 The Four Competencies of Leadership

31.1 What is "The Four Competencies of Leadership"?

Leadership is not based on title; leadership is based on characteristics. What are the characteristics for leadership? There are diversified characteristics of leadership in existence, which several to name are persistence, tenacity, decision-making, self-accountability, teamwork, time management, positivity oriented, continuous improvement oriented, and the list goes on. To work on the path to be a great leader, one needs to be able to assess his/ her level of competency. The four competencies of leadership are identified into: basic, intermediate, expert and mastery.

26.0 What Makes You a Team Player?

26.1 What is "What Makes You a Team Player?"?

A team is a group of people working on a mutual goal. Nevertheless, having a mutual goal alone is not sufficient to make the team work productively harmonious. There are various perspectives on how we can identify a team being good or bad. We will discuss on these five elements: communication, support, recognition, goal mutuality, and motivations.

24.0 Communication in Simplicity

24.1 What is "Communication in Simplicity"?

Communication at its basic is exchanging or transferring information between two parties or more. A person engaging a communication can be engaged in a variety of ways. There are four areas that will enable us to communicate in simplicity yet positively engaging. The four areas of discussion: process of communication, orientations of communication, two types of communication, and elements of a convincing communication.

23.0 Decision-making on Great Options

23.1 What is "Decision-making on Great Options"?

This event occurs when we are faced in making a decision from having options that potentially offer great results. While the narrowed options will result greatly towards a project, the question lies in the options' distinctive difference. That distinctive difference matter significantly not in the short-term but in the long-term. That distinctive difference determines the direction of a project.

19.0 How to Improve Your Skills?

19.1 What is "How to Improve Your Skills?"?

It is by nature that everyone has strengths and weaknesses. The question is: How do you differentiate yourself to others? It is by building your skills and gaining your personalized core competencies. In this article, we will discuss on the methodology to building your strengths, overcoming your weaknesses, and building your core competencies.

18.0 Reinvent Your Lifestyle

18.1 What is "Reinvent Your Lifestyle"?

Has it ever come to our minds whether or not our current lifestyle is the life we really sought to live in? Can it be better and changed? Be it either yes or no, let's give it an insightful thought on how and why it can be changed. This article emphasizes on reinventing the way we live our lives through the inner and outer self-reflections approach.

17.0 Are You a Leader Potential?

17.1 What is "Are You a Leader Potential?"

To be a leader in both personality and status, we should ask ourselves this question: What qualifies a person to be a leader? In other words, what are the prerequisite characteristics one should possess to become a leader? Anyone has the potential to be a leader once you have recognized and possess the prerequisite characteristics. Basing on the Founder's experience and observations, this article will discuss on the basic characteristics one should possess to be a leader.

15.0 Leadership in Problem Solving

15.1 What is "Leadership in Problem Solving"?

Leadership in problem solving basically emphasizes on a leader's approach in engaging with issues. So, how does a leader's problem solving skill significantly differ to a non-leader's? It is segregation. To put it into detail, a leader engages an issue by segregating the two elements in an issue: the solution and the problem. In this article, we would address the two fashions of mentality as solution-focused and problem-focused.

11.0 How to be Happy at Work?

11.1 What is “How to be Happy at Work”?

In discussing this topic, we will firsthand look into the matter by referencing to the concept of Cause and Effect relative to happiness at work. The Cause for us to work is widely subjective to each individual, and by norm a Cause becomes the primary drive for being part of the workforce. Its aftermath, the Effect, is a dependent output resulting from the mixture of Cause and other variables. Equating it would be “Cause + Variables = Effect”. The Variables are the driving key to being happy at work, in other words, your effort in working passionately.

10.0 Building a Relationship

10.1 What is "Building a Relationship"?

A relationship, a personalized definition, stretches from the basic rule of a party having communicated to another. A party may form a simple relationship or even the most complex, which is dependant on the intention of both parties. There are varieties of form of relationship and such are for the workplace, neighbours, classmates, partners, alumnus, and the list goes on. Here, we will look into the general basics, and that is: How can we build a good relationship?

9.0 Iman - Its Ups and Downs

9.0 What is "Iman - Its Ups and Downs"?
Iman, in conventional context, is faith. It is having faith over a matter. Iman, in Islamic context on the other hand, is having faith towards knowing and believing the existence of Allah Azza wa Jal (Mighty and Majestic is He). Hence, knowing it is an intangible matter of mentality without a doubt it has its fluctuation over time. Let us study on how can we be aware of its fluctuation. There are two factors playing their roles in affecting our iman, both internal and external, which are respectively: knowledge and associations (a.k.a. circle of influence).

9.1 The Internal and External Players

7.0 What is Your Catchphrase?

7.0 What is "What is Your Catchphrase?"

Really now, what is up with this topic? Does it not sound wasteful to think of something so simple that it ridicules us? The answer is: NO. The answer is capitalized to express the strength of having our own catchphrase of words, whom some people may also call it a tagline, slogan, mantra, quotation, words of wisdom, and the list goes on. Elements to take account in creating our own catchphrase are, for example, as following:

1. Practicality - it must be realistic, able to be practiced and achieved.
2. Differentiation - it must be different for it is what makes you unique, and distinguished from the rest.
3. Evolution - an additional quality, it must have the ability to evolve from a basic element into another that is better.

7.1 Creating Your Catchphrase

6.0 Energy Management - Physical

6.0 What is "Energy Management"?

Bluntly, it is defined exactly as it sounds - the ability to manage our energy - but there exist various types of energy namely physical energy, mental energy, and emotion energy. All these three elements of energy can be managed, which should they be managed effectively will result in a refreshing kick start in a daily basis. In this post, we will look into understanding the physical energy management.

6.1 The Basic - Understanding Energy Levels

This illustration does not necessarily depicts actual energy levels for each person for, in actuality, every person's physique abilities differ. This is crafted to have a gist understanding on the basic energy levels of a human on a 12-hour basis.

5.0 Poisons of the Heart - Its Protections and Cures

5.0 What is "Poisons of the Heart - Its Protections and Cures"?

What do we understand from the title "Poisons of the Heart" initially? Na'uzubillah, there are many types of poisons inflicting the heart negatively namely gossips, jealousy, and hatred as such. The heart in this post particularly is referred to our 'iman' (faith). In this post, furthermore, we would focus on the poison namely gossip. Gossip, a non-benevolent WOM (Word of Mouth), can either be embraced or rejected.

5.1 The Options and Courses of Action

4.0 Time Management

4.0 What is "Time Management"?

Time management is often understood as managing our time therein filled with tasks. Abu Productive uttered the opposition where he said:

"You can't manage your time. What you can manage is your life." - Abu Productive

True as it sounds for time is an uncontrolled intangible matter to us - servants of Allah Azza wa Jal (Majestic and Sublime is He) - human beings. A controllable matter within our decree though is managing tasks in our daily life. How to manage our countless tasks be it in our working life, marriage, assisting others, time for own-self, and the list goes on. Here, we will look into the matrix of managing our tasks effectively.

4.1 Time Management - Priority Versus Attention

3.0 Three Nutritions for a Human

3.1 What is "Three Nutritions for a Human"?

Exist within our environment are three nutritions for the soul, mind and body for any human. This topic is to discuss on what they are exactly and how we can gain or build these nutritions into ourselves. This topic was first initiated by Abu Productive during the Productive Muslim Seminar 2013.

3.2 The Three Nutritions