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In the course of my own prayer and ritual stuff, I make use of prostration as a posture, since my shrine is a low table that I kneel at. I find doing prostration (think the Islamic prayer type of kneeling) to be a good way to break up multiple parts of my prayer/ritual routine into little chunks. I have a short little prayer I recite every time I prostrate, except for the first and last times I do so as I "salute" my shrine when starting or ending work. For that, I silently recount to myself this:
I rise to pray, I rise to work, I rise to rejoice, I rise to arise to God, for God, in God.
For me, this is less a prayer and more intention-setting and reminder to set aside time and space to rejoice and revel in divinity. Because none of us should take our time for granted, this is how I make an opportunity for myself to offer thanks, admiration, and joy to divinity and the cosmos. Sure, it feels nice to sleep in, watch YouTube on my phone, or jack off another time (or three) before getting started with my day, but that's just me squandering my time for passing pleasures that don't do much beyond rutting around in my own flesh (which is fine in other contexts in moderation).
Don't think of routine stuff as an obligation, as something we just gotta do; think of it as an opportunity, something we should be excited to do. When we say prayers, don't recite them by rote because it's what just we gotta do; say them anew each time as an expression of our own thanks and joy. We call it the Work because it's just that: work. Still, we should develop a mindset that revels in the Work not as mere tedium before we "get to the good stuff" but as a way of life and joy in itself, because even the routine stuff is good, too! This is crucial for us to keep up with the Work.