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 look around you and notice five things you find meaningful.

Easy for me. Or so I thought. I wasn’t quite sure what meaningful might me for things, but I saw the definition: “having a serious, important, or useful quality or purpose.”

Lots around here that is meaningful.

This trailer is useful and has a lot of purpose. It helps us feed every day and keeps horses healthier.

This guitar challenges me, pleases me, and entertains me. It has become a part of my life.

This sprayer, since repaired, helps me care for our property.

I’ve never been one for many neck or face coverings. Even while skiing, I wear less than the family, but I’ve been keeping masks and bandanas in the cars. They are useful, and for now, important.

Useful, but also important in that these dishes and utensils are how I feed the family and gather them together. They help me enjoy cooking, and give the family time together. Not to mention the power, joy, and necessity of the food itself.

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 show your gratitude to people who are helping to make things better.

I go to stores and town a few times a week. Part of this is fresh food, part is needing things to keep the ranch going. Spring is often maintenance and repair time, along with regular feed items for horses.

As I go, I’ve made it a point to thank people for being open, coming to work, and even just doing their job. I’ve been tipping extra in many restaurant places, because I can afford it and I know many of others are struggling.

Small things, but I do appreciate everyone doing their jobs, however small, at a time like this.

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

Today’s tip is today do something to care for the natural world.

Living on a ranch, I do more of it than I might otherwise need to do. A couple things I’ve done this week, not today. I needed to change the oil in a vehicle, so I did so and captured the used fluid, making a trip (with a mask) to recycle it.

I also spent some time working on caring for the lawn and shrubs, trying to keep things healthy. I need to take out a few old shrubs, some dead, and then I want to replant some trees, growing something for the future.

I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, 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 grateful for the little things, even in difficult times.

This is one of those things I try to do often. Even when I’m stressed or in a hurry or upset, I have found if I can stop and look at something that has gone well, I can better cope. I might not be happy, but I can reduce some of the difficulty.

The more I interact with people in this pandemic, the more I am thankful for the ranch on which I live. It can feel a bit stifling at times, but I have plenty of space to enjoy the outdoors. This is my view, relaxing on the front porch with a guitar. Most everything you can see is mine.

I’m also grateful for my guitar, which I enjoy just strumming (poorly) away on and enjoying some quiet time.