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“The most important thing I discovered a few days after turning 65 is that I can’t waste any more time doing things I don’t want to do.” (Jep Gambardella, The Great Beauty) At the dawn of my 32 years and continuing with the challenge we started last week,...
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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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Today I got an email from a person that I don’t know personally (even if I’d love to!), but with whom I am in contact. And at the end of her email, she asked: “How are you? (…) and What are your dreams?” Now this is the kind of...
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We live the life that our thoughts create for us: a specific event becomes “stressful” in relation to the subjective meaning we give to it. Now, let’s be honest: perfection does not exist, and still often the pressure we perceive is coming from ourselves and our thoughts. Working on...
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One of the main steps in personal development is creating relationships with the others around you. What do you know about friendship? How do you make a friend that will last for the whole life? You feel alone surrounded by people that you know nothing about? It is a hard...
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WHY? So you want a new job, or to change something in your life. When you talk about it with other people you just say exactly that; “I want a new job…” Somehow it just seems out of reach, intangible and you just can’t seem to find a...
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Let it go! We all have heard Disney’s ‘Frozen’ song at this stage, I guess and have managed to gather up some baggage going through life, such that we can empathise with the character’s challenge. It is the nature of life that we will suffer to some degree. Whether it...
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In the last two articles, we learned together how to recognize stress and we realized we can get in control when in a stressful situation by deciding how to react. Prolonged stress – like a fast pace life – can drain the energy in our body and mind making...
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I am writing this article as a response to a challenge I received last year from Alina regarding parenting. I guess it all started when we were talking about our jobs, then kinds, then our ways in coping with various challenges which occur during this work, family, your...
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