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 do an act of kindness to make life easier for someone else.

In the current world, I don’t get the chance to see many people. Even those I do get to see are light, brief contacts. The person I see most often is my wife, and she certainly has a very busy life. Her horse training hasn’t slowed with the pandemic, and with mild winter weather, she has very full days.

I like to cook, so I made it a point a few times in the last couple weeks to make lunch, pack up a plate, and carry it out to the barn/arena so she could eat while teaching. She often won’t take the breaks, or has a tight schedule, so providing her some food makes life easier.

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 ask a friend how they have been feeling lately.

The last couple weeks have been crazy, both at work and in my personal life. I’ve heard from quite a few people about the events at Redgate. It’s been hectic and overwhelming at times.

However, I also know there are some people that I haven’t contacted in some time. I know a friend had a rough Q4 last year, and I hadn’t heard from them, so I decided to reach out and just wish them well. This turned into a short, but nice conversation about how we each were coping with current things.

Worth the effort on my part.

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 hopes or plans for the future.

I sure hope the world gets to a more normal place. In the meantime, I can just dream.

Recently I was reading Brent Ozar’s Epic Life Quest.  I hadn’t followed this for awhile, so it was nice to catch up and see how things are progressing. Especially with his move to Iceland. It got me thinking about things I want to do. I used to keep a “life list”, but I stopped at some point. My wife and I have both been talking about redoing our lists.

Here are a few items for my future dreams:

• Return to New Zealand and hike Milford Sound
• Hike Machu Piccu – if it opens again
• Visit Japan and tour around
• Build a cabinet for the house that my wife allows me to hang
• Build a cabin of some sort by hand
• Work for a charity full time

Hopefully I’ll accomplish a few of these in the coming years.

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 ask other people about things they’ve enjoyed recently.

It seems like I’m stuck in a loop of the same thing every week. I to get to see some people with coaching and volleyball, but it’s just a few people, and things repeat.

Recently I went with a friend skiing for a day. We’ve both been working from home, with fairly minimal contact outside of family. So we decided to drive up together and enjoy a day together.

The drive was good, but I really enjoyed our chats, about life, kids, etc. Hearing how they’ve coped with some of the pandemic changes and what they’re doing was good and gave me perspective on how to better cope myself, as well as appreciate the things going well for me.