Rediscovering Productivity: The Power of Routine and Faith

Rediscovering Productivity: The Power of Routine and FaithRediscovering Productivity: The Power of Routine and Faith

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Shammas Anwer

pro

• Jun 15

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

MD Rafee Alam

• Jun 15

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.

Shammas Anwer

pro

• Jun 15

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.

Karen Le

pro

• 1d

I was in a creative rut last year 🫠 Burnt out from work and feeling exhausted to create for myself. I even did daily posting challenges to get myself to build the habit of posting again. From the outside, that probably looked like consistency. But internally, I still felt disconnected from my creativity and I couldn't figure out why. And whenever I stopped posting, I would tell myself I was just too busy. 👉 Client work 👉 Strategy 👉 Editing 👉 Filming 👉 Admin ..Basically everything. But I’m realizing “busy” became the easiest excuse because it sounded responsible. It made avoidance feel professional. I started The Artist’s Way this month, and I’m already noticing small shifts and quiet little realizations I had been too distracted to hear. One of them is this: Sometimes creativity needs more honesty. It needs the space to breathe before we can stop them from external voices (and yes, even the overthinking we do to ourselves). Posting consistently is one thing, but feeling connected to what you’re making is another.

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