#028 Getting What you Want Faster

This episode is all about the power of mentorship, the concept of Tarbiyah, and how finding the right guidance and teaching can help you achieve your dream life, and get what you want faster. 

What You’ll Learn in this Podcast:

1. Mentorship and living an amazing life. 
2. How to believe in your potential and take action.
3. Tarbiyah: nurturing beyond learning.

Mentioned on the Podcast: (Click on Links)

• Nafs Coaching School
• Mind Health & Relationship training (Free Training & Newsletter)

Tarbiyah The Fast Track to Success 

The purpose of a mentor, role model, coach, teacher, or whatever you call them, is to help you grow and accelerate your success.

This is someone that you learn from, you’re inspired by and you can emulate so that your life is optimised in every aspect, including careers and business. 

As the founder of the Muslim Life Coach Institute, I train coaches on how to set up their coaching practice.

I train them on how to manage their minds, I train people on emotional mastery, and I help people create the changes that they want in their lives.

Whether it’s in their psychological mind, in their spirituality, in their business, in their relationships,  whatever it may be. 

This is life coaching. In the Islamic sciences, we call this Tarbiyah. 

Tarbiyah is a nurturing process that goes beyond traditional education. It’s aligned with coaching and leadership because it involves applying knowledge to your life. 

Essentially, we’re all looking for a good example, a mentor, a role model who can show us the shortcuts to achieving our dreams. Someone who can show us the pitfalls to avoid so that we can create a good life and Akhirah. 

We all want to achieve our goals and dreams as quickly as possible so we get desperate to make it happen. 

This often leads to feelings of frustration, desperation, anxiety, and fear.

And when you can find someone to help you along your journey, it just makes life easier.

This is why we’ve had a longstanding relationship between teachers and students. 

Now, seeking mentors and teachers or role models is important but no one can meet all our expectations. That’s why we can’t expect perfection from one person because people have excellence in different areas and they have limitations. 

Taking on a mentor, a coach, and a teacher is the most powerful thing I’ve done.  Alhamdulillah, it magnified the efficiency of my mind and my work exponentially. 

The best examples are, of course, those that Allah (swt) has approved of and sent to us. The Ambiyaa and the Sahaba.

They’re the best examples and we’ve got their life stories. 

We’ve got examples in the classical texts, and in the contemporary texts. However, it’s difficult to see any of that without a teacher, a guide, or a mentor, who can coach you through the process. 

It’s a very simple equation. 

Collaborating with a mentor or coach can have a profound impact on your personal and professional development. It’s a collective effort of two great minds and it can produce much better results than a single mind working alone. 

There’s no coincidence that the first revelation in the Quran, was Iqra; Read. 

Reading opens your mind to knowledge. But the transformation happens when you believe, take action, and live according to that knowledge. 

It’s about becoming the best version of yourself. 

This is the only thing that Allah expects of us, that we live into the blessings that He’s given us. 

We’re grateful for it. And we show gratitude by living according to it.

If you feel like there’s a gap in your life, like you’re succeeding in all areas of life, but there’s one area where you’re struggling, then all you need to do is look at what’s going on in your mind.

To bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be, find mentors, teachers, and role models and take action.

The quicker you act, the faster things will change and the more you’ll realise your potential. 

The only thing that stands between you and action is your thoughts. Don’t let your thoughts hold you back; move forward with purpose and determination.

This episode is all about the power of mentorship, the concept of Tarbiyah, and how finding the right guidance and teaching can help you achieve your dream life, and get what you want faster.