Tag: life

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 send a positive note to a friend that needs encouragement.

I know a lot of people because of my job. It’s one of the benefits of going to lots of events and interacting with people along the way. I’ve become fairly close to some of them, and I appreciate the opportunity to see them when I can.

I’ve started to just reach out when I think about someone, and I have others doing the same. It’s nice to hear from someone briefly, and good to touch them. I know a friend is having a tough time in life, so I periodically just reach out and send something positive.

This person doesn’t always respond, which is fine. It’s helpful to me to just reach out and touch them positively.

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 rediscover something fun from childhood.

I was a serious kid in many ways, often choosing activities or working to improve myself. However, I had a lot of fun as well, enjoying different parts of life.

One thing I think about in my past that was curling up with a fictional novel when the weather was bad. This spring, we had a lot of rough weather, but over the summer it’s just not. Not really a day when I could say I had bad weather.

We do have lots of wind at times, and I hate wind. I’ve had some long days in May and June, trying to get chores caught up on the ranch. It’s a never ending job, and I feel pressure to keep things moving forward. However, we had a really windy day on the weekend recently, and I helped with some chores, but then decided to give myself permission to stop for the day.

I went inside, cleaned up, and got a glass of wine. I sat down on the couch, and opened up a book from the Spinward Fringe series. I’ve enjoyed these over the years, and gotten behind. It’s the fantastic, unbelievable, outrageous kind of science fiction that I enjoyed as a kid. I spent a good portion of the day working through Broadcast 14, which was my spot i in the series.

Now I need to get back to chores, and find ways to get 15-18 in my schedule.

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 create a new playlist today of songs that make you happy.

I love music, and the last year has a number of coping tips along those lines. Variety is neat, and for today, I have to credit my wife. We have some similar tastes, but she likes a lot more R&B music and seems to search out new artists more often than I do.

She turned me on to PJ Morton last year, but this year I heard her playing something by Phonte, which I enjoyed. I decided to add a new playlist, inspired by her, with some his songs, a few by PJ, some by Rhapsody, and a couple others. As I hear her play music, I ask for the artist and I’ll listen to a few things, picking items to add to my playlist.

It’s a neat break from my normal routine, as well as a lovely reminder of when I heard the songs, with my wife.

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 take time to notice something beautiful today.

I was taking down the driveway markers last week. Late this year, but the weather was cold and snowy until May and then I got busy with things. As I wandered down the driveway, one section had seen a lot of growth, and apparently, a plant decided it wanted to take advantage of the marker post.

I almost left it, but I need to cut this section lower, and I know the stem will regrow.

However, it’s neat. It’s a beautiful side of nature, adapting and taking advantage of what is available. It was a neat thing for me to see today and appreciate the amazing things in our world.