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 pause, breathe, feel your feet firmly on the ground.

It’s been a couple hectic weeks. Despite getting the basics right more often, stress has been a little higher and there are a lot of things to tackle around the ranch.

This is a good reminder to stop, take a break, and breathe.

Yoga has been great for this, as well as remembering to ground myself. I do that physically, but it also helps my spirit.

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 the basics right, eat well, exercise, go to bed on time.

I got out of my routine with a lot of travel. Then with getting ready for volleyball tryouts and catching up on ranch maintenance. I sometimes forgot to follow a good routine.

This is my second week at home and I’m getting better here. I am trying to get to bed around 1030, up at 7, get a small breakfast and coffee and get to work. I’m having my protein smoothie snacks, eating a reasonable lunch and dinner and finding time to get to the gym or go for a walk.

Tackling the basics while I can.

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 find something to look forward to today.

It’s Tuesday, which isn’t that different from any other day of the week for me now. The winter is different as I’ll be coaching Tuesday nights, but for now, this is just a day.

However, I like to go to yoga Tuesday mornings, and go through a class with an instructor that I enjoy. Waking up this morning, that’s what I am looking forward to doing after a little email and before a busy work day.

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 look back at the progress you’ve made at some goal or task.

This was a surprise for me. It was something that just happened a few weeks ago.

I’ve been practicing yoga for a decade or so. In that time, I’ve been listening to instructors call for knee-to-nose for years, never really thinking I could do it. I usually round my back and bring my knee in, but it’s never close to my nose.

In fact, for years, I would squeeze my abs, but not really try or think I could touch my nose.

Recently I made an effort and was surprised to feel my knee touch my nose. Just a light touch, but it was surprising.

An amazing piece of progress that made me smile the rest of class and most of the day.