Tag: coping

I’ve 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 create a list of favorite memories you feel grateful for.

I have so many, but here are a few that I came up with off the top of my head:

• Getting married
• The births of my children
• The death of my father
• Starting SQLServerCentral over a phone call
• Selling SQLServerCentral to Redgate
• Completing a marathon
• My first sabbatical
• Playing baseball as an adult and hitting 3 HRs in a game
• First day snowboarding with my brother
• Flying overseas by myself at 20
• Visiting Dunedin with my family
• Going to a Yankees game in NYC
• Finishing the first Harry Potter book with my oldest
• White water rafting with family

I’ve 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 appreciate the joy of nature and the beauty in the world around you.

An easy one for me, with land and animals all around. I appreciate nature constantly by taking the time to notice how the world flows around me and how much I love where I live.

I also get regular reminders on the hard side of nature with dead animals that my cat will catch and bring in.

Nature is amazing and wonderful, and can help you enjoy life. Take a minute sometime, inhale a deep breath and just look around.

I’ve 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 appreciate the joy of nature and the beauty in the world around.

I’m blessed in that I live closer to nature than most. I live on a horse ranch, with lots of wide open space around. Wildlife regularly passes across my property, and I get to interact with non humans.

I’m not a horse rider (much), but I appreciate their beauty, grace, and power. I don’t have too many chores anymore, but I have had more during the pandemic. One thing I had to do recently was feed the horses while my wife was out of town.

This was my view, during lunch one day. A break from the office.

A breath of fresh air, and an understanding that there is more than technology, airplanes, and my gym.

I’ve 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 say positive things in your conversation with others today.

I’m writing this a few days early, but there’s a lot of anger in the world lately. I’ve tried to really project more positivity. Not succeeding as much as I like, but I am trying to move forward, rather than revisit history.

As I interact with people, I remember that. I have some disagreements with people, but I’ve tried to remember to complement them, and find the good in them. I saw some kids recently that I hadn’t see in a few years. I remembered to ask about their lives and then cheer on their successes. Express sympathy at the struggles (one graduated from high school, with no graduation), but turn this to positive and hope for the future and root for their college experience to start in the fall.

It’s easy to complain, gripe, and be upset these days. It’s OK, and some of those feelings are acceptable, but remember to celebrate the good things.  There is always Some Good News in the world.