I spoke with Mohammed Faris, one of the world's leading faith-based productivity experts, about what it actually means to be productive, achieving sincerity, the tyranny of clocks and watches, the restoration of the lunar calendar, overcoming regrets, remembering death... and a little about the future of this podcast!

Mohammed is founder of The Productive Muslim Company - a faith-based training and coaching company with over a million followers online - and the author of best-selling books “The Productive Muslim: Where Faith Meets Productivity” and "The Barakah Effect: More With Less".

He has delivered seminars and workshops in over 15 countries, featured on international media as well as the TEDx stage, and spoken at organisations such as Google, American Airlines, Salesforce, Accenture and the Islamic Development Bank Group.

Check out Productive Muslim: https://productivemuslim.com

Follow Mohammed: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammedfaris/

(0:00) What is productivity?

(2:30) Diverse experiences of productivity

(7:05) Challenges of universalising language

(17:53) How to know if you're productive

(23:09) How to assess & increase sincerity

(28:56) Letting go of outcomes

(36:12) Doing what you love

(40:53) Tyranny of the mechanical clock

(52:58) Intentions & resolutions

(56:33) Restoring the lunar calendar

(1:08:57) Rethinking business productivity

(1:13:40) Helping people to write books

(1:16:13) Overcoming regrets

(1:19:56) Remembering death

(1:25:49) What makes a podcast productive?

#37 - Mohammed Faris: Prioritising Intentions, Transcending Clocks & Switching Calendars