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I heard once this nice phrase: “If you want God to laugh, tell him your plans.” I said that this could not be true…but there are so many more sayings that mean more or less the same thing, so there has to be somewhere a bit of truth. And guess what:...
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What is happening in your life right now? This was the question we asked ourselves last week. Why? Here at Uptitude we talk to each other a lot. Only, recently we had noticed we were sharing lots of things about our lives internally, but not translating this into a...
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What is going on? Yes, just that. Some of us in the Uptitude team have been rather silent of late, so we asked each other, ‘what is going on?” A challenge if you will, write an article about the things that we are experiencing right now in and around...
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We are going through a major transformation at work. Around me I see colleagues being appointed to new challenging jobs, while others are – temporarily – making small compromises on their career status and prefer to secure a position in the new structure. To be honest, I am not...
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Teenage years… What is it about the teenage years? There is something special if not critical in this period of a person’s life. As the second most formative stage for human beings, the impact of the influences and the result of the decisions made during this time can fuel or...
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My open letter to « the avoidants of the world » My dear, From the first day we met, you were sending me mixed signals : once you were kind and focused on us, then cold and distant for a while. I don’t want to judge you or make...
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We all know it: it is essential to be able to count on a strong team exactly then when the pressure is at its highest. The classic situations that normally one thinks of have to do with sport, of course, and they have to do with maintaining or regaining...
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Every woman and every man have this undeniable need to find and keep love. Sometime ago I started to read about attachment styles (secure, avoidant and anxious) and I want to share with you some of my findings. The attachment style we develop goes back to our childhood years...
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“Mediocrity scares me. It’s the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.” (Italian version below – Versione italiana sotto) During...
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