Tag: coping

Today’s coping tip is to challenge negative thoughts and look for the upside.

I’m struggling with some negative thoughts outside of work. This year as I coach older girls, they have many other interests, they’re distracted, less committed, less motivated. Not all, but enough that it’s tough to build cohesion and makes the job of a coach harder.

The upside is that it’s an opportunity for me to learn how I might approach things differently. I’m not sure what to do here, but I recognize there’s an upside, even as I’m unsure and frustrated, even a little down.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQL Server Central 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. All my coping tips are under this tag.

Today’s coping tip is to decide to lift people up rather than put them down.

This is something I am trying to practice more as a coach, pointing out positive things rather than negative ones. Not that I won’t criticize, but the goal is to find places for improvement rather than point out issues as negatives.

People are hard enough on themselves with mistakes. I should note the action provides a way to move forward.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQL Server Central 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. All my coping tips are under this tag.

Today’s coping tip is to take a small step towards and important goal.

One of my goals this year was to work on a way to score myself with customer interactions. I spent time at the end of last week setting up my scorecard in a spreadsheet to track things. A good thing as I have a customer call this morning where I’ll need to rate myself again.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQL Server Central 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. All my coping tips are under this tag.

Today’s coping tip is to plan something fun and invite others to join you.

The fun thing is actually skiing today. My wife and I wanted to get some time away with our kids, so we invited them to come to Keystone for Sat/Sun/Mon for a getaway. They’re joining us, though some are leaving tonight to return home for work tomorrow, while we’re staying another day.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQL Server Central 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. All my coping tips are under this tag.