Hannah’s Daily Note

You can’t pray dhuhr and asr at work, so what’s the point even starting to pray again?

Life is just too full. It’s impossible to pray at work, when you get home you’re far too exhausted (there’s dinner to make, emails to respond to and somewhere you have to fit in some sort of workout too..) Plus, you can’t pray dhuhr and asr at work…so what’s the point anyway? Allah won’t accept them from you…

The real issue here isn’t the fact that it feels impossible to pray at work. It’s that you were led to believe that if you couldn’t pray perfectly, you shouldn’t bother at all…

And this perfectionism probably plays out in different areas of your life, right? Maybe you’re a ‘I’ll join the gym and go 5 times a week’ kinda gal. Or you put off writing your dissertation at uni because the thought of it not being perfect had you stuck not knowing where to start… And when’s the last time you accepted ‘good enough’ at work?

So here’s where we start – one intention, one moment back to prayer (just one)…replacing perfectionism with presence, and guilt with self-compassion.