Regain your focus, reconnect consciously with Allah, increase your productivity, and spend more quality time with friends and family.
This is a 30 day email course to help you kick that phone and social media habit.
Have you ever accidentally left your phone at home, and yet still felt it vibrate in your pocket?
Or stayed up at night watching a video, only for the phone to fall out of your hands and land on your face as you slowly start dozing off?
When a group of friends gets together to eat, a lot of work goes into it. A group text starts with the invited members. What day and time? What type of food? Dozens of Yelp reviews are read, restaurant photos carefully analyzed. After all this effort, the group of friends meets up at the selected restaurant, sits down, and then all proceed to ignore each other while they use their phones.
It’s insanity.
We sit down at work, open our email, and feel stressed as we put together our to-do list for the day. So we take a break. We take out our phones and check Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, CNN, ESPN, and then when satisified, put the phone face-down on the desk (so we can be productive). But then not even 30 seconds later, we get that itch, and we go back and check those things all over again.
Family dinner feels like an insurmountable struggle. Living under one roof, but never finding a moment to truly be present with each other.
We struggle to make it through a Friday prayer without checking our phones. The moment prayer ends, we rush to checked missed messages instead of making dua.
The phone is a bad habit, and it can become an addiction.
The phone controls of our relationship with it, and we need to flip that around.
This course is designed to be a guide to help you break that phone habit.
Every day, for the next 30 days, you’ll receive an email with a daily reminder and a carefully crafted action item to help take back control over your phone usage and cut down on social media. All you have to do is follow the plan.
The course includes:
Fiqh Of Social Media 4 Step Action Plan - The #FiqhOfSocialMedia focuses on 4 action items – Intent, Unfollow, Unplug, and Prioritize. We’ll go through each of these in detail
Habit Change - Synthesizing the best tips and tricks from habit change literature to give you bite size action items built to create lasting change.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up – Yes, we’re going to be deleting some apps that don’t spark joy during this 30-day process.
Mindful Technology Use - This course isn’t here to make you downgrade to a flip phone. We recognize the benefits of technology. The technology, however, needs boundaries. We’ll show you exactly how to set those boundaries so you use the phone on the terms you define - all without creating a sense of FOMO.
Exercise Your Ibadah Muscle - This course is specifically designed to replace time spend mindlessly on the phone with a conscious focus on your spirituality. What would the compound effect be of spending 3 minutes a day making extra dhikr instead of re-checking the same apps? It sounds easy, but you have to build take back the cognitive energy to do it.
At the end of 30 days you will be more aware of how and when you use your smartphone, and have the tools to break the cycle of mindless scrolling.
The cumulative effect of breaking this cycle will help you multiply your time and get the focus needed to do deep work, or simply sit and read a book.
When asked what changes they noticed after taking this course, one of our students said,
“Less social media usage, less commenting, and liking. I've also been more cognizant of when I use my phone in front of my kids and how much I've started to read again.”
It’s not only about reclaiming our attention so we can be more productive - it’s about reclaiming our relationships, starting with family dinner time.
How many times do your kids come up to you and say Mom! Dad! and instead of responding, you hold up your hand, finish sending a WhatsApp message, then look up and say, “Yes?”
These are small actions. Innocuous. But they compound over time. Do it enough and before you know it, that child is a teenager headed off to college complaining about parents who don’t pay attention.
We can continue coasting. We can keep showing up to work meetings half-alert, muting our phones, and then playing a game while others talk.
It all adds up. If it continues we risk eroding not only our own attention and cognition, but our relationships as well.
This course is designed to give you small, actionable steps. Not huge unsustainable changes. You’re not going to have to suddenly deactivate all your accounts and go off the grid. We want to create small, meaningful, and lasting changes.