06.09.07 - Mayyit of: Fatima Moosa Hakeem Dadabhai - WILL LEAVE FROM: 11 Calshot Street Homestead Park - Time: 11:30 - QABRASTAAN: Newclare - CAUSE OF DEATH: Natural

Control Your Time
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When you start specifying the time allotment for each activity you should pay more attention to the early part of the day i.e. morning because you are well rested and fresh. Therefore, proficient time managers always assign the morning times for important tasks. This approach will lead to the best results and maximum output in very short period of time. Usually, most people use the morning times for reading newspapers, making telephone calls and doing unimportant tasks. All of us know that as the day progresses one gets tired and is exhausted by the evening. Always remember to spend your best time for the most important tasks (morning or after taking some rest in the afternoon). Similarly, do the minor tasks when your energy level is low or tired. You should assign two lots of one-hour sessions daily for important tasks. During these periods you should not receive any telephone calls or any visitor or any form of interruption. You should pay full attention to the important scheduled tasks. If two sessions are not possible then one session is absolutely necessary.

In addition to the above, our daily program should have enough flexibility to handle an unscheduled important task. Therefore the daily plan should have 25 to 50 minutes for unscheduled important activities. You must ensure that unimportant and unscheduled tasks should not be carried out until they are properly schedule. You must keep on asking yourself all the time "Am I utilizing time correctly and spending on the important issues"? This feedback mechanism will help you in controlling the time. Would you let other people control your money and spend the way they want? The answer is NO. As you know, time is more valuable than money therefore you must control your own time rather than let other people and- external activities to control your time.

TIME WASTING
It is not important what are you doing or in what activities you are involved. The most important item is what do you want to ACHIEVE. Many times we will find individuals are working day and night without any results because they make themselves busy in the activities without having a clear mission in front of them.

Most of us WASTE at least three hours daily. This waste of time is not done intentionally. If it is done intentionally then it is very easy to correct it. Unfortunately, this waste of time is caused due to our bad habits for example we will start one job and before finishing it we will move on to another priority. After some time we will come back to start the first job again. This way we will spend lot more time then really it requires. Some of the time wasters are:

a. People drop in to see you without appointment.
b. Incomplete information and communication (after a discussion either over a phone or in a meeting, people do not know what needs to be done or when the tasks to be completed. In these circumstances people have to go BACK to the person again to acquire about the missing information. This is pure waste of time.)
c. Do not look at the diary for the meetings or the commitments made with the people for certain items or not maintaining a diary at all.
d. Cannot say NO. You MUST learn to say no sometimes. Otherwise you end up doing unnecessary work and leaving the important tasks.
e. Cannot DELEGATE. You want to do everything yourself. A golden rule should be remembered that if anything can be done by some else (subordinates) then you should not be doing it.
f. Answering telephone calls while in a meeting. If you spend 5 minutes on a telephone call in a meeting with 12 people then you have wasted 60 minute.
g. Arriving at the meetings either too early or too late i.e. 1/2 hour.
h. Receiving or making too many phones calls. Some people consider this activity as an indication of being very popular.
i. Unnecessarily carrying on conversation for a long time and trying to cover all the world topics during the conversation.
j. Do not assume, always make sure that both parties fully understand the requirements, information & actions. Many people always mention use your common sense. They do not know that common sense is a rare sense.
k. Lack of concentration during the discussion and meetings asking people to repeat their views again. Very few people can listen to others views. Learn to differentiate between listening and hearing.
l. Poor filing system.
m. Unnecessary rest i.e. excessive rests on weekends.
n. Unnecessary emotional discussion of political and sport events that have already happened i.e. why Pakistan lost the cricket match to England.

It should be clearly understood that wasting of time means you are spending time on the lesser important issues then your goals. In order to control and plan your time, it is imperative for you to keep on asking this question "HOW COULD MY TIME BE BETTER UTILIZED"? In order to answer this question, you must have your goals/objectives in front of you.

FOR THE ONE WHOSE CHILD PASSES AWAY
ALHAMDULILLAH ALAA KULLI HAAL INNAA LILLAHI WA INNAA ILAYHI RAUJIOON.

BENEFIT: It come sin a Hadith that when a child passes away then Allah Ta’ala tells the angels: you have extracted the soul of the child of my servant. The angels reply: yes Our Lord! Allah Ta’ala says: you have broken the flower of his heart. The angels reply: yes. Allah SWT then asks: what did my servant say? The angels reply: he said ALHAMDULILLAH ALAA KULLI HAAL INNAA LILLAHI WA INNAA ILAYHI RAUJIOON. Allah SWT says: prepare a palace for my servant in Jannah and name it Baytul Hamd.

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SAUCY FISH
Ingredients
Fish Masala - 1 cup freshly ground garlic - 2 tblsps sesame seeds - 1 tblsp oil - 1 tblsp vinegar - 2 tsps red chillies - 3 tbls dhania (crushed) - 1 tblsp lemon juice - Salt to taste.

8 Pieces Hake fillet. Marinate in Fish Masala and fry in oil.

Then Take
1 Onion think sliced (fry in deep oil) and set aside

Liquidise 3 tomatoes. 1 tsp dhana jeeru. 1 tsps red chillles. Limbri Leaves. Salt to taste

Method
Braise tomatoes when water burns out; add dhania jeeru, salt, red chilles and Limbri leaves. Fry onions in deep oil and add tomato mixture. Place fish in oven dish and spoon tomato mixture over the fish and warm it in an oven. Serve with chips and lemon slices.

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