Tag: life

Today’s coping tip is to look for new reasons to be hopeful, even in tough times.

My life is pretty amazing most of the time. There are some stressful moments and annoying things, but overall, I can’t really complain about anything.

That being said, I have a lot of empathy for others, and I know that the inflation is a problem for many. I’m financially secure and don’t worry, but I also realize that I am lucky. Not everyone is in the same situation.

From my experience and travel, I’m glad to see some things starting to improve in the world. Fuel prices are lowering a bit, except for diesel. It’s not a perfect situation, but it’s better than nothing. I find there are more goods available in stores, which is always helpful for people that are just in time shoppers.

I’m also seeing lots of people posting well wishes, offering help, and doing favors for others. Community is important and it’s good to have people looking out for each other. In a very negative-world-view media storm, it’s nice to see plenty of people approaching life in a positive manner.

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 enjoy new music today: play, sing, dance, or listen.

I’m on the road this week, so it’s music for me. Not a lot of time to play, and I don’t sing or dance well (or at all if I can avoid it).

Before I travel, I usually download an artist or two and try to listen to some new music. For this journey, I picked an older artist that I haven’t listened to much and a new one.

For the older one, I went with Santana. I’ve heard a few of his popular songs, but never really listened to much music so I grabbed the This is Santana playlist on Spotify as well as Blessings and Miracles.

For the new one, I’ve been catching Nicki Minaj on some other compilations, so I grabbed The Pinkprint and Beam Me Up Scotty.

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 discover your artistic side. Design a friendly greeting card.

A fun one for me today. I saw this just after returning from the PASS Data Community Summit. Since I had some fun with pictures, I decided to make a themed card: using Lego Steve.

Happy Holidays!

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 learn a new skill from a friend or share one of yours with them.

I like learning, so in this case, I took advantage of my daughter being home. I asked her to help me adjust some photos and explain how and why she made changes. She’s working on a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Photography, so I thought this might help me grab some better shots at events.

The original photo:

The adjusted one:

One thing she is passionate about is good framing, so you can’t crop if you didn’t do a good job at the beginning.

Not sure I’ll follow that advice, but I do think about it.

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.