Workplace Habits

It is easy to set up some goals, but difficult to achieve them. It is easy to propose some habits, but difficult to maintain them.

It sounds familiar to you? Maybe they seem to be more difficult when we are talking about habits from the workplace.

Making good habits can influence a lot our success. You don’t need big habits because you can start also with some small ones.

It can help if you focus only on some habits (start with only one, for eg.), do it with a certain frequency (at least 30 days) and correlate it with some new ones (when you achieve them). These will make you more confident and it will encourage you for bigger objectives.

So, let’s see what kind of new habits we can establish at work if we don’t have them until now:

• Lunch break - important for your health, but also it can help you to socialise with your team (if you are at the office). And drink water - at least 2l per day
• Daily stand-ups or weekly meetings with the team - for updates, priorities, and obstacles from the activity
• Cleaning up your office - throw all the not important things you have on your office and keep it clean
• (But also) Personalise your desk - put some pictures or some flowers on it
• Read weekly a business article or some news relates to your work
• Grow your relationship with people - make some small-talk related to personal situations (like the family news) or share things you found
• Take new tasks or learn how to be more independent on the ones you already have
• Monitor your progress - check your KPIs and analyse your development objectives (not only at the end of the year)
• An inbox with zero unread messages - it can be useful to be on time with all the tasks / news

In the end, some books recommendation: The Power of Habit and Atomic Habits. Also, an article on how to seat work boundaries.

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