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I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here.

Today’s tip is to change your speech. When you feel like you can’t do something, add the word “yet”.

A number of things I used to do are out of reach for now. In talking with some friends from down under last week at the PASS Virtual Summit, I joked about coming down if they could get me into the country. Australia and New Zealand are locked up against Americans, and for good reason. We don’t seem to be able to control this virus.

I was sad, but I should have added a “yet” to the end.

I did manage to remember this with my wife. Colorado has restricted gatherings and I had to inform my team that we can’t practice together for now. My wife lamented us competing in upcoming tournaments, saying that we can’t really play. I reminded her this is a “yet.” We’ll find a way to do this again.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here.

Today’s tip is to find out something new about someone you care about.

I asked someone recently how they were doing during this tough time. They told me that they hadn’t been able to visit a parent in a retirement facility and only were able to video call with Skype.

This surprised me, as the person was younger than I was, and I had assumed their parents would not be in that level of care. Shows what I get for assuming.

I felt bad, and know what this is like, though my mother is far enough away that I can’t visit her often. I was supposed to go last month, but illness made me cancel. However, this person has their parent just a few miles away.

Heartbreaking.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here.

Today’s tip is to be creative. Cook, draw, write, paint, make, or inspire.

I like creativity. It’s a part of my job and my life, as I often need to think about how to write. I’m also a little creative in my life, as I cook most of the meals, fix things, play guitar, and sometimes actually build something interesting.

This week, I’ve started going back through my guitar courses and practicing. Today, to relax during the PASS Virtual Summit, I’ve kept a guitar handy and just mindlessly played some riffs over and over as I watched some talks.

I’m also hoping to get “Lovely Day” good enough that I can play it tonight for my wife. She loves that song.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here.

Today’s tip is to give yourself a boost. Try a new way of being physically active.

My weekly activities are usually yoga, weight lifting, and swimming. I may use the rowing machine or bike, but those are less frequent. Horseback riding rarely, but skiing is usually something I start thinking about this time of year as a 1-2x /wk activity.

In trying something new, I decided to add in some walking. I stopped running a few years ago, but with being sick this fall, I need something that works me, but isn’t too taxing. Something I can also include the dogs in, so walking it is.

I’m adding in a walk a week, or hoping to, and trying to get some different type of movement, especially as I hope to travel in 2021 somewhere and do more walking/hiking.