It’s Possible to Do More When Your Time Is Blessed
Written by Aziza Gaouda in collaboration with ChatGPT
There are days when I look back and ask, How did I get all of that done? The answer, more often than not, isn’t in the planner or the productivity hack—it’s in the blessing.
Barakah.
That sacred, intangible increase.
When your time is blessed, everything stretches. A ten-minute task flows like water. Conversations go deeper. Prayers feel fuller. You don’t just check things off a list—you feel present while doing them. There's a kind of divine orchestration that takes over. And the truth is, barakah isn’t random. It’s invited.
Barakah enters when you start your day with the remembrance of Allah. When you pray Fajr and resist the urge to scroll. When you say bismillah before you begin. When you pause before responding. When you give something away even when you feel short yourself.
Sometimes, we try to force time to serve us—stressing over schedules, multitasking, or hustling until we burn out. But barakah is soft. It doesn’t come through force. It comes through surrender. Through living with intention. Through prioritizing what matters to the One who created time in the first place.
And here’s the most beautiful part: barakah doesn’t just help you do more—it helps you be more. More patient. More grounded. More connected.
So if you feel like you're always running out of time, maybe it's not about needing more hours. Maybe it's about needing more blessings within the hours you already have.
Start there. Start with bismillah.
And watch what unfolds.
Written by Aziza Gaouda in collaboration with ChatGPT