Muhammad: How He Can Make You Extraordinary

by Hesham Al-Awadi

The downside of following personalities instead of ideas is that conflict will break out between their followers as soon as the leader dies. This is what happened after Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, and Alexander the Great passed away, and it happened as well in Mecca with the death of Qusay:

Don’t complain about your surroundings. Look for opportunities and alternatives that suit your ambitions and let you develop.

Your words count for seven percent of the impression you make on people, but behavior accounts for 53 percent.

In your life, you have two zones: your circle of influence and your circle of concern. Your circle of influence includes the things you control, while your circle of concern includes the things that matter to you but you do not control. 32 The challenge is to expand your circle of influence until it can affect your circle of concern. Muhammad expanded his circle of influence by allying with the tribes in the Hejaz, which in turn impacted his circle of concern (Mecca) through the Quraysh’s caravan traffic.