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Hi friends,
 

Happy Eid! Wishing you great times enjoying your 3 meals and morning coffee again and going outdoors with your family anytime you want!

 

Are you ready?

Are you excited?

It’s happening in less than a week!

I’m talking about A Fresh Start!

 

Starting next Sunday, we have 9 weeks to make remarkable progress in our goals.

 

Why 9? Because by the end of the 9th, the Adha Eid holiday starts and, and with it, summer vacation for kids.

 

It’s time to stick to a workout routine.

It’s time to walk every day.

It’s time to do your weekly reviews.

It’s time to wake up early.

It’s time to read.

It’s time to put your phone away while with your kids.

It’s time to plan your meals.

It’s time to track your expenses.

 

Because if we’re a book, new beginnings, like the first workday after Eid, are distinct chapters in our lives. We are new people in every chapter, and the old version of us from the previous chapter is a distant memory. What that self couldn’t do, we can!

 

In her book How to Change, the author Katy Milkman shared her studies that people tend to sign up for classes or set goals not only in the new year but also in the new work week, on their birthday, or after culturally meaningful dates such as the beginning of Spring because they feel more hopeful about the new season. So yes! We can have this feeling every new week (That’s why I love weekly reviews)! But sometimes, like next week, we all get to have a larger fresh start.

 

 

 

Yesterday marked 5 years since I launched my podcast — and I just want to say thank you. Thank you for every listen, every message, every moment you allowed my voice into your day. Whether you’ve been listening from the start or just discovered it recently, your support has meant the world to me.

 

As I prepare to get back to publishing new episodes soon, I’d LOVE your help reigniting the spark and getting the word out, if you love the podcast THIS is the way to show it:

 

 

Here’s to five years and many more episodes to come. 🎙️✨
 

Snapshot from my week: 
First family vacation as a family of five. Grateful.

Here is your weekly dose of The Sunday Spark ⚡️ a newsletter listing 3 sparks that I thought were worth starting your week with:

 

1.🎥  This is the week to share this post: I used them all up (a warning to creatives).

2. 🎶 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is a timeless tune; my baby boy did the cutest little head dance for the first time when I sang it for him recently, and he also did the same for The Wheels on The Bus. However, I'm trying to have more Arabic songs playing around him, so if you have a baby or small child, you'll love this YouTube channel: Lalikids by the talented Jordanian artist Sanaa Moausher! The songs are amazing. I used to have many of them on CDs, but luckily, now you can find them on Youtube, Anghami, or even Spotify. I still need to get Zain Awad's children's songs, which she sells directly as she DMed me recently, in CDs I presume. I also used to have them but lost the CDs over the years. I'm hoping she, too, would consider adding those wonderful albums to music platforms.

3. 💬 Your quote of the week:

"We tend to be happier when we live with the sense of both connectedness and surrender that comes from acknowledging that some form of universal consciousness exists and guides our behavior beyond the bodies that carry us through each day." 

―Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life

 

 

 

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