Tag: coping

Today’s coping tip is to plan a fun or exciting activity to look forward to.

I almost shouldn’t do this much, since I’ve had a great year with plenty of vacation. My wife is joining me in Seattle, and we enjoy the city, so I’m planning a dinner at the Purple Cafe. We’ve been there before, and we enjoyed their location in Chicago last year.

It will be a fun dinner.

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 ask yourself, will this matter a year from now?

It’s easy to get caught up in short term things. I’m behind on a few projects and maintenance items. I’ll get to them, but really, these are short term issues. They don’t matter a year from now.

They will if I delay a year, but that’s not the case. This is a few days or couple weeks. Relax, be kind to myself, and slowly knock things out.

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 be kind to yourself today. Remember, progress takes time.

I am usually good at this. I work on many things that take time, so I am always looking at things over time.

However, sometimes I feel the weight of work or life and I forget. I’ve been traveling a lot in Oct (and Sept), being gone almost half the time. That makes it hard to concentrate on some things, and I’m often disconnected.

One of those things is my editing queue. It has crept up a bit, and I know it bothers authors, and more importantly, my queue can sometimes disappear, so I need to work on whittling this down. I have slowly been knocking out items, and I’m reminding myself it is getting smaller, even though it sometimes grows with new submissions.

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 be kind to yourself. Remember progress takes time.

I’ve spent most of this year trying to better manage my weight and become healthier. I started the year at around 243 pounds, which for a 6’ person is a lot. I felt quite fat.

I worked through the first part of the year and managed to get down to 215-218. Then a trip to London had me pop up to 222, but I managed to get below 220 again. Throughout the summer and into Q3, I had a lot of travel. I got as high as 230 (likely a lot of water weight), but struggled to get below 220 again.

I’ve had a bit more time lately at home, and I’m better at watching my diet. As I’ve struggled between trips, I have learned to be patient, accept the failings of my travel diet, as well as continue to work to be better.

Hopefully I’ll be below 220 when I head to the Summit in a few weeks.

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.