Personal Development Plan

This document is a guide for personal improvement. Inshallah, we can grow stronger in our faith, and our knowledge and more committed Muslims/Muslimahs by aiming to improve ourselves. This guide is designed for us to set some attainable goals for ourselves, then reminding ourselves of our commitment to improvement, and tracking our own progress. The categories listed are suggestions and can be adapted to your own personal plan.

This plan belongs to:

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who began this plan for self-improvement on: ___________________________

Hereby is committed to review, update and strive to attain the goals included in this plan by reviewing it every _____________________(frequency), inshallah.

What I feel I should do to improve myself as a Muslim in this world:

Goals to improve my ‘accounts’ for the Last Day:

Setting Targets

As Muslims who are members of an Ummah which has been given the directive to be balanced, we have to ensure that our development is also balanced and comprehensive. Since Islam is a way of life, we simply cannot afford to overlook any aspects. Otherwise we risk lopsided development in isolation.

Whether we like it or not, the plan for our development is already in place all the way from Preschool (even Daycare) till the day we die. Now whether this pre-programmed plan meets the needs of a Muslim or not is a different question altogether. Needless to say, unless we take charge of our own development, someone else will.

Listed below are development areas that should inshallah be helpful in planning our own route through life.

Development Areas (Scope: Individual)

Salat (Prayer)
Zakat (Charity)
Fasting (Sawm)
Hajj (Pilgrimage)
Increasing Islamic Knowledge
Building Personal Skills
Time & Money Sacrifices
Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle
Reading Books (Focus: Individual)

Development Areas (Scope: Family)

Family
Reading Books (Focus: Family)

Development Areas (Scope: Society)

One-to-One Relationships, Muslim and Non-Muslim
Social Responsibility / Dawa Activities
Reaching out to other Muslims
Participating in the Muslim Community
Reading Books (Focus: Society)

Identify the areas where most improvement is needed and prioritize the areas based on their importance. Once the priorities are in place, set some specific targets with attainable goals and track the progress. Keep the goals attainable. Take one step at a time, but do take that first step, inshallah.

SALAT (Prayer)

	Current Status	6 month goal	Level Achieved	1 yr goal	Level Achieved
Fard (obligatory) Salat
Juma’h (Friday) Salat
Salat in Jama’ah (congregation)
Quality of Salat

Other aspects of my Salat I want to improve

Meanings of Duas (prayers) read in Salat
Sunnah (recommended) Prayers

Comments:

ZAKAT, SAWM (Fasting), HAJJ

	Current status	6 month goal	Level achieved	1 year goal	Level achieved
Have I calculated my Zakat?
When will I give Zakat this year?
How will I distribute my Zakat?
How many fasts do I keep during Ramadan?
Have I performed the Hajj?
When will I perform the Hajj?

Additional opportunities I want to strive to include

	Current Status	6 month goal	Level Achieved	1 yr goal	Level Achieved
Fasts on the 9/10 or 10/11 of Muharram
Fast on the 9th of Dhul Hijjah
Six Days in the month of Shawwal
Performing Umrah
Visiting the Prophet’s Mosque

Ramadan “Scorecard”

Check off the days of Ramadan successfully fasted. Use this as a reminder to make up any fasts missed before next Ramadan.

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