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 relax your body and mind with yoga, tai chi, or meditation.

I love yoga, and I tell the kids I coach that I wish I’d gotten into it at 20 years old. I haven’t done tai chi, though I would like to try. I struggle with meditation, but I have friends that love it.

I try to practice yoga 3-4 times a week, most of the time in a group class. I see beginners in there all the time, and I applaud them. I can’t recommend it enough. If you don’t want to invest in a class somewhere or you feel embarrassed, try a Yoga with Tim or Yoga with Adrienne class in the privacy of your home.

For me, I’m heading to the gym for a yoga class.

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 set yourself an exercise goal or sign up for an activity challenge.

I use Garmin Connect with my Forerunner watch to track my activity. I think I’ve been doing well this year overall. Here are the activities I’ve done this year, as of last week:

I tend to do my thing, but with this tip, I decided to join a challenge. There are some available, and I decided on this one:

With a bum ankle, I didn’t want to do any walking challenges. For April, the challenge is cycling, which is something I do 2-3 times a week, either as a warmup for lifting or just to burn calories. I need to go 675km before June 30.

For April, I have a few indoor cycling activities, but I need to start doing more and adding some distances. I tend to cycle inside for now, especially as my ankle acts up. I can go slower without the pressure of guessing how far away to ride based on how I feel. I tend to go 5-7 mi before lifting and 12-15 on ride days, which gets me into the 8-12km range or 19-24km. If I say I’ll often go 12km, I need 56 days of riding. That’s going to be tough as I bet I lose 3 weeks for surgery.

I’ll see what I do, and try to post some updates. My aim here is to work harder in April and early May, especially as I’ll be on the road a bit and riding a bike is easy in a hotel. I don’t know when I’ll be able to ride more in June with rehab, but I’m hoping I can get some km in.

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 make sleep a priority and go to bed at a good time.

I don’t always do this, and sometimes I find myself waking up and spending too much time at night reading rather than trying to go to sleep.

I’ve cut down alcohol consumption quite a bit this year, and it has definitely helped my sleep. This week is a short week for me. I worked on chores last Saturday, coached all Sunday, and then had a busy 4 day week before traveling to Chicago Thur afternoon. Today I’m coaching, and we likely won’t get done until late.

To prepare for this weekend, I made sleep a priority this week. Sunday I was tired, as was my wife, and we both fell asleep around 9-930p. A bit early for us.

Monday I had yoga at night and made it a priority to call it a night by 10. Tuesday I did the same thing, but Wednesday we had an evening practice until 9, so by the time we closed down and drove home it was 10. That was closer to a 1045 night.

Not bad, but not great. However, it was helpful to make sleep a higher priority and try to end my day earlier.

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 give your body a boost by laughing or making someone laugh.

I was in Las Vegas a few weeks ago and went to a comedy show. My wife and I enjoy comedy and thought it would be a good night out with friends.

It was bad. Not the worst show, but probably top 2 or 3 bad ones. I can’t believe the headliner was on a marquee outside the MGM.

I didn’t laugh that night, but I decided to do something different when I made this tip. Instead of music or the radio when I ran errands, I decided to put on my Pandora comedy station. I have one built from Ricky Gervais, Greg Giraldo, and Dave Chappelle. I even kept it going with headphones while in the store.

I laughed in the car out loud, and smiled in the store.