Mid-Monday Talk: Rituals for success at work with Confluence

[Anastasia Bek _Stiltsoft_]

Happy Monday, Atlassian Community!
In the hustle and bustle of our (work)life, it is crucial to find rituals that help us get on track toward success throughout the week. It is especially relevant for me on Mondays when the whole work week is ahead. So, even the most minor tips, tricks, and rituals can optimize performance during working hours.
This Monday, let’s explore both the power of rituals and the power of Confluence, which can be an ally during this journey.
Let’s share our insights and learn from each other!


Daily Rituals for Productivity:

• Often, my work concerns the tasks that need to be done. Even with the high-priority and large projects and events, I prefer to divide the cake into smaller chunks so that only one cake is eaten. Or… If you have multiple cakes on the table, at least you have a few pieces of different cakes rather than approaching whole things at a time. 
• So, my pieces of cake are tasks I track digitally in the Confluence Data Center with the help of our Handy Tasks from Handy Macros for Confluence app. Directly in the view mode, I can assign new tasks, mark them as completed, or track the progress. Plus, marking checkboxes as completed and visualizing progress is very satisfying.
• When there are plenty of high-priority tasks at hand, I turn to my take for existing frameworks like the Eisenhower Matrix, which will help organize important and urgent tasks in the form of top priorities, to-do firsthand, schedule completion before the weekends, and something that can be delegated. It helps, and in the tables, under tasks, I can also visualize how many urgent/essential things I have to do. By the way, you can always organize such frameworks and custom matrixes with the help of Confluence templates, which can also have a time-saving benefit for you.

Weekly Rituals for Productivity:

• On Monday Morning, I like to clean up the tasks done in the past week and reflect on the results and progress. This sets the right tone for realistic yet productive planning for a successful week. This is the time and place where the bottlenecks can identified and various insights discovered. This is the definition of working smart and hard, and to go even further under the parent page in Confluence space, you can have weekly/monthly pages with reflection notes written in your way - for yourself or your team - the choice is yours. It depends on your teamwork and task management dynamics.

Bonus - Afterhours Recharge:

Work before- and afterhours rituals can be equally important and have an impact on the workday, so If you have any, you can leverage Confluence’s knowledge-sharing capabilities to dedicate, organize, and share space/blog posts with tips and tricks, personal insights that work for you, some of the examples might include:
- Spend time with family and friends
- Spend time with pets
- Hit the gym’s treadmill while listening to your favorite playlist
- Spend time on your hobby or passion project
- Bake a cake
This can be a great space to increase collaboration and teamwork, even bond and build on the team if you’re comfortable expanding and discussing the recharge rituals, which is believed to impact the clock-in directly.
Long Story Short:
Our work’s productivity and performance can benefit significantly from rituals—those tools for recharging and optimizing our potential towards success. Daily, Weekly, and monthly rituals can be equally powerful, and you can support them using Confluence and various frameworks.
Have a lovely week ahead!
Cheers,
Anastasia

[Halina Cudakiewicz_Deviniti_]

Very useful! I find it extremely important to have before and after work rituals. If for some reason I can't engage in them, I feel frazzled and rushed.

Thank you for sharing!

[Anastasia Bek _Stiltsoft_]

Thank you for the feedback! It's great that the content resonated! The main thing here is always to notice the importance of rituals and consistency at work and in private life.