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I do, and they're great so far! I actually paused my ongoing lectures for this. I use the Muslim Central app, they have all of NAK's talks uploaded straight away, so I can listen to them on my way to work!
I was following Yasir Qadhi's seerah lectures (amazing series!!!) but decided to pause it for two Ramadan series: NAK on Surah Al Baqarah, and Mufti Menk's "Save yourself" series. Both are daily talks available on the app and they'll take about 1h20 of your day, for me that's a bit more than my commute time to work =)
Wa alaykum salam
Our life is indeed full of distractions. Your aim to be productive (no matter in which domain: work, religion, personal project...) is to make sure you know how to manage your time. If you struggle to find some time to read Quran for example, try to look back at your spare time and how you fill it! And improve that.
I found it very helpful to actually schedule your spare time. That's actually how I do now. I come back home from work around 7:30/8PM. My typical schedule is:
- cooking/eating from 8 to 9, usually I eat watching an episode of whatever I'm watching at the moment
- Chill from 9 to 10, play video games with my brother for example
- Go to bed at 10 and read a book. Quran, Hadith... I'd read until 11/11:30 and then fall asleep
I also added another thing: My commute to work takes 45 minutes. I downloaded Muslim Central, an app regrouping pretty much every lecture from every major speaker (I don't think there's an app on iOS, but they're all available as podcasts). I now listen to a lecture on my way to work and back. That's 1h30 of lectures per day! I am currently listening to Yasir Qadhi's seerah, episode 60 right now, and it's amazing. My commute to work is productive!
And same on weekend. Make sure you schedule your time. Being distracted is not a bad thing. If you want to play or watch a movie or whatever, do it. But make sure that's not the only thing you do! I always manage to sneak in productive time at work. An hour reading Quran or hadiths isn't hard to find! I found buying books actually motivated me to read more. My nightstand pretty much always has 4 books I need to read so well, you can be sure I'll go to bed earlier to catch one of them and read it!
Productivity requires discipline. Just enforce it. As a Muslim you already have a great discipline al hamdullah, you pray 5 times a day etc... Consider it the same thing - set times for your stuff!