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B7 THE ASTORIAN • TuESdAy, FEbRuARy 25, 2020 Woman looking for more excitement Dear Annie: My biggest accomplishment in be mediocre anymore. It’s about finding joy and life is my recovery. I’m currently seven years pleasure in the small victories of each day. sober, and I have worked very hard to clear my If there are things you want to try but are history of self-destruction and rebuild my life afraid to, try them anyway. Fear is “false evidence into what it is today. I continue to attend recov- appearing real.” ery meetings and guide other women through the Dear Annie: “Out of Shape” was wondering recovery process. But I am in a maddening how to start a successful exercise pro- gram after many years of disappointment. loop thinking of what to do with my life. DEAR I came to this area to attend rehab and As an executive coach who works with ANNIE had no intention to stay, yet here I am eight professionals on everything from time years later. I have reached and sustained management to wellness, I have found the stability in my life, but my heart longs for biggest challenge to making life changes more. I am afraid I will never take the leap is that people start out with plans that are to make a change and, ultimately, get lost too big. in regret of what could have been. Begin with a simple step: Get more I’ve consulted therapists, my spon- active. It might be taking a 10-minute sor, my family, my friends, my co-work- ANNIE LANE walk after lunch, doing three minutes of Creators ers, and I believe they are sick of hearing calisthenics before getting in the shower Syndicate Inc. about it. Before I got sober, I was a risk or doing squats for two minutes while you taker in good and bad ways. I was bold brush your teeth. The key is to tie it to and brave and moved on my own multiple times. something you already do every day. It’s as though I have lost the ability to create my After one month, this routine becomes a own future. I continue to live a mediocre-feeling habit that you can celebrate and build upon. You life, and I fear I will never change. I just don’t might feel it is a small improvement, but you are know what to do, and I was compelled to ask you. already more active than you were a month ago! How do I change? — Stuck in a Loop The next month, add something simple to your Dear Stuck in a Loop: There is nothing medi- new routine, or create a second one for another ocre about a life lived seven years sober. That is time during the day. something to be celebrated. And helping other Also, look for ways to make simple tasks more women get sober while staying sober yourself is physically challenging. Let’s say you are picking heroic. While a therapist and friends are an essen- up stray items around the living room. Pick them tial part of recovery, the person you need to con- up one at a time, and sprint to put them away. sult is yourself. Cut yourself some slack, and be By year’s end, you will find that you are lead- kind to yourself. Be grateful for all the wonder- ing a much more active life without putting in ful things that have been made possible by your an overwhelming amount of effort. Your increase sobriety. Turn off that critical voice in your head in energy and confidence will help spur you to a that is telling you they don’t count, or they don’t more active life naturally. — Keeping It Simple mean much, or if you were really strong, you Dear Keeping It Simple: I always love hear- would move to a strange environment. Nonsense. ing from professionals who offer wise perspec- Wherever you go, there you are. Thus, it tives. Your advice reminds me of one of my doesn’t matter if you move to another town or favorite sayings: Life is a cinch by the inch and a wait for this great big moment when life will not trial by the mile. Virus outbreak chills markets, outlook for global economy By DAVID McHUGH Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany — The widening coronavirus outbreak threatens to seriously disrupt the global economy just as it was steady- ing itself against headwinds from the U.S.-China trade dispute. Stocks fell sharply on Monday around the world on news of more infections in different countries. The U.S. Dow Jones was down more than 900 points during mid-day trading, while in Europe, the pan-European Stoxx 600 dipped 3.6% amid fears about the first major outbreak on the Continent, an eruption of cases in Italy. Cases were also reported in new countries in the Middle East. Concerns are high in Europe, where the three largest economies are already scraping along at the edge of recession, with Germany particu- larly exposed. China, the epicenter of the crisis, is a major sales market for German automobiles and serves as a source of parts for Germany’s own factories. The global economy was just sta- bilizing after wobbles caused by the trade war between the U.S. and China and fears of a disorderly Brit- ish exit from the European Union. The coronavirus hit just as a U.S.- China preliminary deal and a Brit- ain-EU agreement on a transition period had boosted hopes for a mod- est upswing, particularly in Europe. Now the world economy could see its first quarterly fall in season- ally adjusted output since the global financial crisis of more than a decade ago, says Ben May, director of global macro research at Oxford Economics. Frequent business and tourism destinations for people from China are already being hit hard, confirm- ing that this will be a key way that the pain will spread to other Asian econ- omies, with Singapore and Hong Kong feeling the effects. Comparisons to the 2003 SARS epidemic, another deadly outbreak that originated in China, aren’t reas- suring because China’s share of the global economy is much bigger than it was back then, and supply chains moving raw materials, parts and products snake through the global economy more than ever. Stock markets may have been slow to appreciate the risk posed by the coronavirus because they hoped central banks could step in with stim- ulus. Erik Nielsen, group chief econ- omist at UniCredit, said that while monetary or fiscal stimulus can boost demand in an economy, the virus is interrupting supply — which may not be so easy to boost with policy tools. “Think of it this way: China has closed a reported 70,000 movie the- aters because of the virus. That’s a supply shock, and no amount of income (demand) stimulus will boost ticket sales,” he said. 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