Tag: coping

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. All my coping tips are under this tag. 

Today’s tip is to write down a place or event that you want to attend in the future.

I am looking forward to live events, like SQL Saturdays, again. I really, really want to see some professional people and talk tech.

However, for me, to try and start coping with a changed world, I have a simple thing. Actually two things. I want to go to a movie in a theater, and I want to go to a comedy club. I haven’t done either of those things in 15 months, and they are things I’ve enjoyed with my wife.

My last comedy show was in Las Vegas, early last February. The last movie I think we saw was earlier, January or December 2019. I miss those breaks from life where my wife and I get out of the house and do something that’s fun.

We’re vaccinated and things are changing, so I’m hoping we can do one of these things in the next few weeks.

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. All my coping tips are under this tag. 

Today’s tip is to contact someone that you want to spend time with during the next year and start to make plans.

I’m hoping to get some time with my extended family last year, and I’m looking forward to trying to rectify that this year. However, I have missed a few people locally in the last year that I’d like to get together with.

For me, this is a few people I’ve known in the local area that remained quite locked down during this past year. I have a friend that moved to remote work, and I did see a couple times, but not enough. We’ve lost some touch, and need to make more time to get together.

I reached out and set up some time to get together and reconnect. While the pandemic had me contacting a wider group of people, I lost some deeper touch with some others. I’m looking to try and fix that a bit in 2021.

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. All my coping tips are under this tag. 

Today’s tip is to set a goal to do something important to you in the next year.

This week is goal week, looking forward a bit. Yesterday I had a small project to tackle this summer. Now I need a goal for something that matters to me.

I want to travel, but that’s not something I can count on. Rather than focus on life things, I’m going to pick another small goal for this year.

I’m going to build Christmas presents. I like working with wood, and every year I think about it, but wait too long and don’t get many, or any, built. This year I’m going to start this summer and tackle a few things, customizing them for different family members, and then get them ready to send out in December.

That’s my goal.

Hopefully I’ll get there.

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. All my coping tips are under this tag. 

Today’s tip is to write down one thing you plan to do in the next year.

I don’t make a lot of plans. While I do have a life (bucket) list, it doesn’t drive me on a regular basis. I have enough commitments that I prefer to not add other items if I don’t need to do so.

For the next year, as I think about something that I might want to do, there are a lot of items outside of my control. I hate to plan something based on what others might not do, so I’m thinking about what can I control and get done.

I think the item for me isn’t big, but it is something I need to do. I built a generator shed last year, but it’s too small, and doesn’t have proper ventilation. I can control my actions to work on that, so I’m going to spend time fixing that this summer and get it ready for winter.

A small project, but it will make me feel good to get it done.