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 have a “no screens” night.

The modern world is hard on our society  with the constant connectivity. I think it’s great in many ways, but I find far too many people occupied with a device and not interacting much with others. Or they are distracted in their interactions.

One of the things I like about our volleyball tournament trips is that my wife and I get out more and interact with others, using our devices less. She often still has her horse business clients to schedule or interact with, and our kids reach out, but overall we spend more time without screens.

Tonight I’m outside Reno, after a day of competition and I’m leaving my phone in my pocket. Unless a kid has an emergency in another city, nothing is as important as spending time with my wife and other coaches overlooking Lake Tahoe.

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 enjoy moving to your favorite music.

It’s a travel day for me. I leave this evening for Reno to coach another volleyball tournament. This is our last competition of the year, so I’m going to try and enjoy things. We will be less focused on winning and more on having fun and getting kids to try new things.

I’ll be in the airport and traveling to Lake Tahoe where we’re staying on the lake. I’ll be with my wife, but I’m going to take some headphones and enjoy music a bit through the airport and on the journey. Maybe some foot tapping or grooving to music a bit. I bet she’ll join me.

Or laugh at me.

Either way, it will be a smiley-day.

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 spend less time sitting today, get up and move more often.

The other day we did stretching and breathing. Today I’m going to do more walking. I am setting some reminders to take 5 minutes to walk a bit and move my body around other tasks. I might do 5 minutes of yoga a few times as well, maybe holding a few poses and just getting my heart pumping harder.

Somewhere in here I also need to get to the gym and lift a bit as well, but this will be a bit of movement.

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 focus on eating a rainbow of vegetables.

Today is my medium carb day, which means I have these meals:

• yogurt with berries and nuts
• fruit smoothie
• ground turkey with rice and broccoli
• fruit smoothie
• turkey meatloaf with vegetables and quinoa

I vary these slightly, but the general idea is the same. I’m going to aim to get a variety of vegetables today with different colors. I’ll add some tomatoes and yellow squash to lunch, and then skip the quinoa and use some corn and different colored peppers with meatloaf, adding some zucchini to the meatloaf.

That’s a bit of a rainbow.