There is something uniquely powerful about starting your day chatting it up with friends or brainstorming with coworkers.

Today, I had three meetings before I had a real chance to get started on any type of work. Normally this would be seen as a bad way to start the day. The conventional wisdom is to start with your most important task of the day, then the next, and the next until you’ve produced meaningful progress or results.

Typically I agree with this advice. But, I think it is also too simplistic at times for us fickle humans. For me personally I am often uninspired or just out of whack. Diving head on into my task list is thus difficult. The very thought of starting is really hard.

At times like these, and especially Monday mornings, I find it extremely helpful and really refreshing to talk about your work with others. For me it gives my work meaning and purpose. It gives me a connection to others on my team as well, which is often easy to forget. My three early mornings gave me a little bit of extra fuel that I needed to get to work.

The Takeaway

If you are feeling unconnected to your work or plain old uninspired, find ways to talk about your work with others, whether it’s coworkers, meeting a friend for morning coffee, or through social networks.

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