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 spend less time sitting today. Stand, walk, move more.

I ended last week looking to do some activity. Today, it’s just less sitting.

That’s a challenge for me these days. It shouldn’t be, and I do get some exercise most days, but I find myself sitting for long stretches. I raise my standing desk less often, mostly because I think I’m a bit worn out from life.

However, I’m making a small effort today. I’m taking more breaks and walking to the kitchen, upstairs, doing a touch more movement in the house. I am also trying to find a few minutes here and there to avoid sitting, and standing while in a meeting or watching some video content from our various updates.

I know sitting isn’t great, but with life beating me down, I just want to sit. I don’t know I’ll change much, but I am making a bit more effort to try and get above 1000 steps by the end of the workday if I haven’t gone anywhere.

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 time to run, walk, bike, swim, dance, cycle, stretch, or some other activity.

I’ve been trying to do more outside as the weather changes. Some chores, but also moving some exercise outdoors. I was lucky with an extended summer last year that had yoga and swimming outdoors, but since that ended in early October, it’s been mostly indoor yoga, weight lifting, and biking. The few times I have hiked, walked, or biked outside, it’s often been chilly or overcast.

With that in mind, I decided to go walk to the mailbox for a few days. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but my mailbox is a half mile from my house. I took dogs, leashed them when we left the property, and had a few nice jaunts, even in not great weather.

A nice break in the middle of a couple days.

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 explore a new area today, however small.

I’m lucky in that I live on land and have been able to go outside for the last year if I need to get out of the office. I’m also lucky in the Colorado has great weather and is built around being outside in many areas, so that even while locked down, I could find places to visit or walk without being near people.

I like exploring, but really I like driving and exploring. I’ve loved having cars throughout my life and the freedom of driving somewhere. I decided to use a car to do a little exploring.

With some extra time, rather than drive straight to the gym, I looped around the North and East, going through some neighborhoods that used to be fairly deserted and sparse, but now had been developed and built up more. I missed the fields, but saw new houses, families enjoying themselves, and a changing world.

It was a nice break for me, short at 15-20 minutes, but a change from the routine of life, which is needed these days.

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 get active by singing today (even if you can’t)

I can’t sing. My wife and kids say I do fine if we’re not actually trying to hit the notes. However, I love music. My mobile devices have been important for me as music players with other features being secondary. I still miss my iOS devices a bit as they were superior music players.

Today, I went old school on Spotify, a Classic Rock Workout, playing loud in my office while I do a little busy work. I can semi-listen and sing along with a few songs as well. A few of the ones that get me going:

• Gimme Shelter
• Come Together
• Layla
• Baba O’Riley
• Purple Haze

You can guess the artists, or check out the playlist.