Dear Sister,  

My name is Heba Alshareef, you may know me as the sister of Muhammad. You may have read some of my articles on the affairs of Muslim women. Maybe you know that I am a mother of five, or that I am a DiscoverU LifeCoach.  Or maybe you don’t :)  

The thing is: I know you.

I know that you are trying to figure out your life.  I know that you are trying to plan your life. 

And I know that you are my sister and I know that I do want to take you by the hand, and show you how to release the power that lies inside of you, to take action on what’s important to you. 

Our Muslim role models have left us an example of strength and accomplishment.

Women like Khadijah and Aisha, and Bilqis, the legendary Queen of Sheba.

Has not the time arrived for us to take on the torch of their shining examples?

I want you to feel like you can be:  

-> the ideal Muslimah, loved by Allah SWT, His angels, and His earthly creations

-> the strong mother – wife - daughter, capable of raising outstanding children and pleasing her husband and parents

-> the dedicated worker, educated in the field of excellence

-> the conscientious student, an asset to her field and able to contribute to her community

-> HAPPY!!!

In this one of a kind Powerworkshop, you’ll be taught how to:  

-> transform your limiting beliefs

-> decipher what motivates YOU

-> live your life brilliantly on every level

-> develop your vision and purpose

-> commit to your goals and set deadlines to achieve them

-> rid yourself of the baggage that holds you back

-> tackle time restraints with a hard-core plan of action

-> identify and align your passions so that you have abundance

Using powerful group discussions, personal coaching, fun interactive exercises, and dramatic examples of success, you will be guided in the most effective methods to attain all that you want from your lives. You will learn how to take back control and nothing will ever be the same again!

Become the best you can be - Release Your Inner Queen of Sheba!

Bring your journals!  Watch the inspiration and feel the excitement envelop you!  It’s a new day, habibti!

I invite you to register now at:  iamsheba@discoverulife.com

Join the Muslim women who are ready to release their inner queen of sheba!

May Allah SWT put much barakah in all that you do!

Looking forward to meeting you two days from today,

Heba

Recharge Your Faith: How to Make Your Ramadan Outstanding
Sisters only POWERWORKSHOP
Conducted by Amirah Mauthoor
Certified Personal Development Coach
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Date: August 26, 2008
Time: 6:15-9:15 PM
Location: University of Ottawa
Room: MORISSET 205
Price: $10 (Limited Seating)
***Workbook provided***
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Chase it. Catch it. Keep it.
 
Abu Huraira related that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
 
“Whoever fasts during Ramadan with faith and seeking his reward from Allah will have his past sins forgiven. Whoever prays during the nights in Ramadan with faith and seeking his reward from Allah will have his past sins forgiven. And he who passes Lailat al-Qadr in prayer with faith and seeking his reward from Allah will have his past sins forgiven” (Bukhari, Muslim).
 
What’s your Ramadan going to be like this year?
 
Will it be Month of Feasting or Month of Fasting?
Will it be Month of Socializing or Month of Worshipping?
Will it be Month of Buying or Month of Giving?
 
Every year Ramadan comes and goes.
 
Ramadan is approaching.
Ramadan is here.
Ramadan has gone.
 
What is your state?  How is your time spent?  How is your Eman?  Have you changed?  Or have you slipped back to your old habits?
  
This Ramadan, catch it and keep with you all year round
 
Recharge your Faith and Make this Ramadan OUTSTANDING!
 
 ”Amirah gave me the motivation and desire to want to excel. I have benefitted greatly and I HIGHLY recommend everyone to take advantage of her skills if they wish to be who and what they have always wanted to be and get the MOST out of life”
 Saima Aziz
Ottawa, ON
 

“Amirah has helped me to develop a realistic action plan of achieving my goals, and what I have been wanting to do for months I was able to start the first day!   I’m no longer thinking about things I hope to accomplish but actually doing them.  I feel that I am now able to work around and overcome obstacles rather than being stopped by them”
Anonymous
Houston, TX
  
In this Workshop you will:
- Learn to MANAGE your time during Ramadan
- Prime yourself BEFORE Ramadan Begins
- Train how to keep your EMAN elevated before, during and after
- Construct your ULTIMATE Du’a List
- Devote yourself to WORSHIP
- Envision your LIFE at a higher level
- INVEST your Dunya in Akhirah
- Experience outstanding RESULTS
 
***Register now at powerworkshop@discoverulife.com***

By Heba Alshareef

Imagine this… You have passed back through the ages to the time of the Prophet, salla Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallam. You have traveled on your camel for days in search of the knowledge that this one man possesses, salla Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallam.

Upon arriving at your destination, you meet a generous family who is willing to open its doors to you and provide you with food and shelter for as long as you wish to remain in the city, alhamdu lillah. When you reach their home, you are directed as to where you can allow your camel to rest during your stay. You dismount, exhausted and famished from your long journey, and begin carefully gathering rocks from the ground around you. One by one, feeling them heavier and heavier as you collect them, you stack them on top of one another in a large square until they stand as tall as you. Finally, with your camel securely within his stone wall, you enter the family’s safe haven to gain some much desired food and water.

Huh?

As strange as the ending of this story may sound, we often find ourselves doing, in essence, the very same thing in our lives. We want certainty to such a great extent that we are willing to do things that don’t even make sense in order to get it. Just as this person wanted the security of knowing that his camel would remain in the same place until his return, we want the security of knowing that our decisions and choices in life will produce the results we want.

So what do we do? We plan and plan but never act. We fill our days with tasks that don’t move us forward but keep us securely where we are now, even though that may not be where we want to be. We delay making choices, waiting for the perfect, and certain, opportunity to arise. But of course it doesn’t.

We need certainty and predictability in our lives because in its absence we are left with only chaos, but at the same time we need variety and ‘spice’ to keep our lives in motion. And that spice comes from taking steps forward when the way is not 100% certain.

One day our beloved Prophet, salla Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, noticed a Bedouin leaving his camel without tying it. He asked the Bedouin, “Why don’t you tie down your camel?” The Bedouin answered, “I put my trust in Allah.” The Prophet, salla Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, then said, “Tie your camel first, then put your trust in Allah” (Tirmidhi).

We have to do our part, for ourselves, our loved ones, and for our communities. And sometimes that means not knowing completely what the outcome of our actions will be when we take them.

As we move forward, we may feel that the path in front of us is perhaps scary and unknown, but seeking Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala’s guidance and trusting in Him gives us the certainty of knowing that He will be there with us all the way.

Sonia Dabboussi,  Success Coach

DiscoverULife www.discoverulife.com

 You begin on a journey, thinking that you are about to live the life of your dreams.
Along the way, you meet other people who have reached their destination, and they aren’t happy.

You keep telling yourself, “But I’m different….”

Then, you arrive at your destination, and much to your dismay, you aren’t content.
Guilt begins to eat away at your heart, as you realize you should be grateful to Allah for all that you have,
but secretly, and quietly, you are suffering. You aren’t happy.
In fact, you are sad…

What can you do to prevent this scenario?

DiscoverULife is proud to present:

“How to Plan a Life with Zero Regrets” with DiscoverULife Coach Sr.Megan Wyatt

DiscoverULife presents a Live Power Webinar
 
“How to Plan a Life with Zero Regrets”
 
with DiscoverU Certified Life Coach Megan Wyatt
 
 
How Will You Benefit, insha’Allah?
 
1) Create an Internal Compass for sharp decision making

2) Gain clarity on what truly makes you happy

3) Discover what beliefs are holding you back

4) Comprehend the reality of fears and how they effect 
    
Your decision making process
 
5) Develop tools to conquer failure
 
6) Never feel the pain of regret EVER again!
 
 
 
Testimonials from the first program:
 
 ”Even though I’ve already taken vision workshops and know the importance of making big goals for yourself and the Ummah in order to please Allah (swt), it was refreshing to hear it again in a different way. I loved how you gave us a tool which was the Internal Compass because that’s very practical on a day-to-day basis”
- Zahra Murtaza, CA
 
“Although I said that I didn’t have regrets over things that have happened in the past, when I actually looked back over some past decisions based on this “tool” it gave some insight into why I made them and how, with this clarity, I could have made them differently. Insha Allah, I’ll see what happens with
 future decisions if I take this into account :)  ”
-Amal Stapley, Egypt
 
“..Your conference call tonight was amazing!!! jazakhallah khair!! Even though people may think they already know this stuff, you are really able to put it into perspective, and makes it easier to see the whole picture so we can make better decisions and truly live a life without regrets!!!
-A’amna Malik, CA

She had big goals, she dreamed big dreams, and she always had her long to-do list by her side so she could check each thing off as she completed it. She was taking all of the right steps and doing what she had learned to do. But even with all of that, Amina felt like she wasn’t going anywhere in her life.

Try as she did, Amina couldn’t find the missing piece of the puzzle. She was supposed to be happy by now, but she wasn’t. What was she doing wrong?

The answer came in a very unexpected way.

During her quest for knowledge and improvement in her life, Amina had read the book The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey. She had learned in this book that some things that people tried to give her to take care of really weren’t her problems and that the ‘monkeys’ that people came to her with that were not hers should go right back out the door where they came from.

She thought this was such a cool analogy that she wanted a small stuffed monkey to put where she worked to remind her of this. But wherever she searched, she just couldn’t find what she was looking for…until a few weeks later when a colleague came to work with some prizes for a children’s activity she was hosting. What was there, right in front of Amina, but the perfect monkey she had been searching for! How amazing was that!

Through this experience, Amina recognized gratefully that when you search for something in your life it will come to you, insha’Allah, perhaps in a way that you never expected. She learned the lesson, and then tucked it away in her memory to draw on later.

But the biggest lesson was yet to come.

Later on in the day as Amina explored the intricacies of her new found animal friend, she came to a startling understanding: When she had wanted a monkey, what had she done? In some kind of way she had made dua.

The magnitude of the situation weighed heavily on Amina’s shoulders as the realization of it set in. She had asked for a monkey. Only a monkey. What if she had asked for something bigger? Something that would have brought her closer to Allah and made her dreams real?

From that point forward, the little monkey took on a whole new meaning for Amina. It served it’s original purpose, but more importantly it became a constant reminder for her of the power of dua.

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Nothing is impossible for Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala. He hears us when we talk to Him, and is ready to respond if we ask.

“Our Lord descends to the lowest heaven during the last third of the night, inquiring: ‘Who will call on Me so that I may respond to him? Who is asking something of Me so I may give it to him? Who is asking for My forgiveness so I may forgive him?’” Al-Bukhari

So when you make dua, is it going to include ‘only a monkey’, or will it contain ever so much more? When you call on Allah, what will you ask Him for today?

Sonia Dabboussi,

DiscoverU Success Coach

Do you know the ONE–single most essential–question that goes through a potential customer’s mind, when they’re thinking of buying something?  It’s a very simple question that most business folks ignore:

“What’s in it for me?”

Your potential customers really don’t care about you, your product, or your service.  They only care about what THEY get out of it.

They actually see your product or service as an obstacle to get to where they want to go.  Now, isn’t that interesting?

Listen to what they are REALLY saying:

“Sell me the pleasures, convenience, and profits of modern technology…
DON’T SELL ME COMPUTERS!”

“Sell me the pleasant hours of reading and relaxation for my weary mind…
DON’T SELL ME BOOKS!”

“Sell my children happy childhood moments that they will remember for a lifetime…
DON’T SELL ME TOYS!”

You get the idea.

Always focus on the benefits of your product or service.  Stop focusing on YOU.  If you’re not used to that, then it’s time to get over it.  They really don’t care about you (or your product or your service).

Instead, start focusing on THEIR needs and wants.  Only then, they’ll start caring for you because…

…because you could let go of your own ego and were brave enough to care about them first.

By the way, the same thing applies to your club, organization, association, or institution.  Just change the word “customer” with “members” (or whatever you call them) and “product/service” with whatever you offer.

Simply put: “No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.”

Think about it.

Let this transfer-of-information be an exciting transformation for you.

Sharif Faizullah
Result Coach, discoverulife.com

Bismillah.

Alhamdulillah, with the success of the www.successInIslam.com mailing list, a success hadith sent out every week, i have decided to develop 2 more one year, every week, mailing lists.

The first of these is going to be an Online Da’wah video, with short commentary by myself.

So I need your help to find the best of the best of the best da’wah videos online. Just type in your comment and link to your pick for the best da’wah videos online.

- Muhammad Alshareef

(Be a part of this massive benefit to people, in sha Allah.)

Dreams are not just something that you have when you close your eyes at night, or that you think about when the current conversation topic isn’t very interesting. Dreams can be something real – just ask Khafayah and Mohamed. These two DiscoverULife members not only had the courage to dream big, but experienced the phenomenal feeling of having their dreams come true.

And that’s only been during the past two days.

At DiscoverULife, success stories are becoming common place. Some of them are the small ones that mean a lot to those directly involved, while others are the gigantic, knock-your-socks-off kind.

Now for those of you who have a thread of doubt running through your mind, I assure you, I have seen these kinds of successes with my own eyes. I’ve watched people’s lives change right in front of me. I’ve felt the intensity of their emotions when they’ve found themselves in a new place in their lives with things they had only wished for at one time now appearing before them in full form.

And you can experience this, too. As soon as you’re ready.

Khafayah and Mohamed are two people who decided they didn’t just want to go with the flow of things – they wanted to ride the wave. They didn’t want to be led through life, they wanted to lead. And lead they did, with an outstanding example for all of us to follow.

And here’s more good news: in DiscoverULife great things have been accomplished by regular people, just like you. So that means that if they can have these successes, you can, too. Every day if you really want.

Right now you have a choice. You can click onto another place somewhere on the Web and think, “Gee, that was a nice post I just read,” or you can decide this minute to take a bigger step and make a difference in your own life. You can choose to become the person you’ve always wanted to be, and live the life you’ve always wanted to have, or you can go back where you came from and wonder 10 years from now what your life would have been like if you would have taken the other path. It’s all up to you.

Now it’s your turn to choose. What will YOU do?

www.discoverulife.com

Sonia Dabboussi,

Success Coach, DiscoverULife