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For two weeks, nothing was working.
No leads. Projects crawling. Zero productivity.
I kept asking the same question: why?
Why is the work suddenly so heavy? Why does nothing land?
Then I looked honestly at my days. No proper sleep. Up at random hours. And somewhere in the chaos, I'd quietly stopped praying.
I'd removed the one thing that kept me grounded.. and then wondered why everything felt ungrounded.
So I stopped. Went to the mosque. Prayed. Came back to where I'm supposed to be.
And it's hard to explain what shifted, but everything felt… lighter. Clearer. The work started moving again. My head was quiet.
This is barakah the quiet blessing that makes a little feel like enough, and makes the heavy feel light.
The lesson I keep relearning: life isn't as hard as we make it. We complicate it ourselves... losing our routine, our rest, our connection with God, then blame the world for the weight we added.
Get back to your foundation. Everything else follows.
hashtag#framer hashtag#Discipline hashtag#Faith hashtag#Mindset
That line about removing the one thing that kept you grounded, then wondering why you felt ungrounded, really hits. Sometimes we diagnose our slumps as external when the cause is much simpler.
Appreciate that, Rafee. That's exactly it we love an external explanation because it lets us off the hook. The honest answer is usually "I broke my own routine." Harder to admit, but easier to fix.
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I've sent 166 applications in the last 5 months.
And most of them went nowhere. Not even a no. Just… silence. You know the kind. (Where you refresh your inbox for no reason, twice, like the second refresh is gonna change something. 😅)
I kept sending them anyway.
Not because I'm some disciplined guy, no, I'm really not.
I just don't know how to stop once I've started a thing. (It's kind of a problem in other parts of my life honestly, but here it worked out.)
So here's a boring truth I keep coming back to. Nothing good happens once.
It happens because you did the small unglamorous thing again. And then, ugh, again. And again after that when you really didn't feel like it. 🧠
Five months of that added up to 25K.
Which is… I don't know. Small number, big number. Genuinely depends on the day you catch me.
Some days it feels like proof. Some days it feels like I've barely started. Both are probably true.
But the money's not really the part that sticks with me.
It's the days nobody saw. The quiet ones. Where I did the work and nothing landed and I just kind of closed the laptop and did it again the next morning.
CONSISTENCY isn't something I've mastered. Not even close, trust me.
I'm still practicing it. Badly, some weeks. Like properly badly.
But I'm practicing. And weirdly, that's the whole thing. That's it.
And honestly, thank you everyone with me directly/indirectly. None of this was ever really a solo thing 🙏
Continuons d'avancer! ⚡️
Turned a static Kajabi course into a fully interactive learning experience.
My client came in with a coded prototype (built with Claude) of how she wanted her CCS medical coding course to feel, flashcards, quizzes, practice built right into the lessons. My job was to rebuild that as an actual Kajabi template, matching it exactly.
What that meant:
- A custom Kajabi template built around her exact prototype, not a generic layout
- Interactive flashcard and quiz practice in every lesson, not just video + text
- A progress dashboard across all 7 modules (35 lessons) so students can see where they stand
Kajabi doesn't really do this out of the box, so a chunk of the work was just figuring out how to make it act like a custom app instead of a course platform.
Now the course feels like something students actually practice with, not just watch.
If your course feels flatter than what you pictured, I can help close that gap.
For a certification course specifically the progress dashboard probably does more for completion rates than the flashcards. students studying for an exam like ccs need to see where they stand against the full scope not just finish one lesson and move on