Is there a way to make Monday morning more productive?

[heather]

We've all been there.

After a few days off to relax and unwind, you log on for another week of work. You spend the better part of Monday morning catching up on emails, page comments, and Slack threads and by the time lunch rolls around, you've barely spent any time figuring out what your weekly priorities are. It's only been a few hours, but it already feels like the week has gotten away from you.

Is there a way to avoid this? I think so. For example, I like to block off two hours of my Friday afternoon to do a weekly wrap-up: I schedule some Slack messages, set-up some meetings, and try to clear out my inbox before signing off for the weekend.

We're curious -- what do you do at the end of each week to make sure Monday mornings aren't a dumpster 🔥? Let us know in the comments 👇  

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

A good proportion of the people close to me are well-qualified in how humans think.  Even looking at my main family unit, we had two polymaths interested in human thought, a sociologist and a psychologist.

All of us saw Monday morning as a "dead time".  I am thinking mainly of Dad (the sociologist) here, where he did a 9-5 job and leapt at "flexitime" as soon as it was mentioned (this was the late 70's, so quite a novel idea).  The depressing idea that you've got another 5 days of this crud is not good, so people tend to do the easy stuff they can get out of the way.

Frankly, I just bin off Monday morning now. It's for doing paperwork. I sleep, mess with the internet, or play with the cat after the paperwork

[Daniella Latham]

I wrote about my Monday morning ritual on LinkedIn 🙂 Here it is in a snapshot:

🛑 Avoid meetings on Monday before noon (my time) however possible
☕ Get coffee
💻 Log in, coffee in hand, scan Slack threads and DMs for important messages - 15 minutes
▶ Schedule Slack reminders for lower priority items/threads to follow up on - 10 minutes
☕ Get more coffee
🌐 Open Atlas, review my weekly project updates (and monthly goal updates) in Reading mode (hitting R on the keyboard), commenting and reacting along the way - 20 minutes
✉ Check emails, delete notifications, bookmark Confluence pages to read later, and move to folders - 5 minutes
🤙🏻 Skim Gong notifications (weekly filters) and bookmark interesting Sales calls to review later - 10 minutes