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I have created a calendar in Google already – not a very user friendly tool to generate reports, but I suppose will do for now.

Created an Excel document to export the Google calendar. I attached screenshot of the report. I have missed 4 prayers out of 45 prayers between the dates 19/01 and 27/01. I’ve missed 3 Fazr and 1 Maghrib prayer. It was so unfortunate to miss the Maghrib as I was over whelmed with work in office. I didnt realize that I missed my prayer until it was Isha time and my mobile alarm for Isha went off.

The success rate is 91%. The prayer I missed most in the last 9 days was Fazr – 3 times with same reason: Overslept.

• Go to bed early (to avoid missing Fazr).
• If I am late to go to bed, set multiple alarm at 5/10 minute interval (My mobile is a good tool for this)
• Set up prayer reminder in Outlook at my work computer.

Created a calendar for tracking prayer performance,issues, failure to perform etc.

This is more of a journey to prepare myself for 2013 and onwards. The ultimate plan is not to miss any daily prayers in my life from now on.

I am keeping 2012 as a test year. This is when I will analyze what I go through when I miss a prayer, what the common scenarios and reasons are, how to avoid them and what steps can be taken to keep motivated in it.

Insha’Allah will also try to figure out how to handle busy/tough/rough times like at work or on a journey or in a meeting when peforming prayer can be a bit challenging.