Tag: life

Today’s coping tip is to decide to lift people up rather than put them down.

This is something I am trying to practice more as a coach, pointing out positive things rather than negative ones. Not that I won’t criticize, but the goal is to find places for improvement rather than point out issues as negatives.

People are hard enough on themselves with mistakes. I should note the action provides a way to move forward.

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 take a small step towards and important goal.

One of my goals this year was to work on a way to score myself with customer interactions. I spent time at the end of last week setting up my scorecard in a spreadsheet to track things. A good thing as I have a customer call this morning where I’ll need to rate myself again.

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 plan something fun and invite others to join you.

The fun thing is actually skiing today. My wife and I wanted to get some time away with our kids, so we invited them to come to Keystone for Sat/Sun/Mon for a getaway. They’re joining us, though some are leaving tonight to return home for work tomorrow, while we’re staying another day.

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 try something new to get out of your comfort zone.

I did two things here. First, I’ve been participating in a Jan American Cancer Society Challenge and fundraiser. I’m doing this because cancer sucks, and I wanted to help. I rowed in college, but I don’t want to just focus on rowing, so I’ve been trying to fit this into my normal routine.

However, I decided to go longer and make this my exercise for a few days. Part of that is being busy and bad weather, part to change things up. I pushed harder and instead of a 10-12min row, I went 22 and 5k.

Second, I asked my son to cook a recipe. He showed me something he found interesting, which usually results in me asking for the URL and I shop and cook. This time I asked him to make it, which is slightly uncomfortable for me. However, I’ve been extra busy, so I got out of my comfort zone.

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.