Tag: coping

Today’s coping tip is to change your normal routine today and notice how you feel.

I am a person who likes a routine. While I travel a lot and engage in different things, I still like a routine of sorts, even on the road. I get a little stressed (sometimes a lot) when I lose control of my routine.

My normal routine is often to wake up and eat early, then start my day with work, meetings, etc. That’s been what I’ve done for years.

I’m going to switch a bit and try to do some work or workouts before I eat. This year has been a year of working on my diet, learning to be better, and more importantly, lose weight. It’s worked well, but I want to try something new.

For the next week or two I want to get up and go to the gym, or go to work, without eating at first. I’m seeing if a bit of light fasting helps or changes my view. I’ll have water, or black coffee if I work, but no food for a couple hours.

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 sign up to try a new activity, course, or community.

I somewhat did this early in the fall by choosing to go through the Head Coach certification for volleyball. While I’ve been in and out of it, November is normally when I begin coaching, but we’ve slowed things this year. This means I’ve had more time to go through a formal set of topics, growing my knowledge.

I’ve considered adding something else, but I also know that coping means I need to take care of myself. I’m quite busy now, so I won’t add anything else for the time being.

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 get outside and observe the changes in nature around you .

Nature is changing in Colorado as winter approaches. It’s been a dry year, and that means that plants have gotten crispy and dry with fire danger. The ground is also extra hard.

I went outside recently to set up driveway markers for the winter. With 1/4 mile driveway, it’s easy to lose your way in the snow, even for us residents. Trying to put these markers in the ground was an exercise in frustration as I have very hard ground that is brittle. Even in places where I could get the pole in, the holding power of the soil was weak.

It’s also very brown. Colorado isn’t a green state on much of the plains as it’s a high desert for much of the land, but it’s extra brown this year. The lawn is fading quickly, after a sprinklers ran until October.

While it lightly feels like fall, with cooler weather, the changes this year, with less rain and snow, mean it’s a different land than I normally see.

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 make a list of new things you want to do before the end of the year.

Hmm, definitely some things to do, but what’s new? I’m not great with new as I like routine and familiarity. Here are a few aims:

• visit Portugal (planned)
• sand and finish a cheese knife
• try a new restaurant for date night
• new approach to coaching, asking more questions rather than telling setters what to do

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.