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New Year is the occasion to review what happened during the previous one and plan the coming one. Before being judgmental on what we did and what we did not, I would like to share with you this beautiful talk from Brené Brown on worthiness, vulnerability and courage. I...
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You are at work, or in your personal life, someone approaches you who is clearly upset. “Why did you leave such a mess in the office? I’m trying to work as well but there are papers everywhere, I can’t even SEE the desk nevermind using it for my computer!...
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Courage….as a definition is opposite to fear…or(according to Wikipedia): “Courage is the ability and willingness to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Physical courage is courage in the face of physical pain, hardship, death, or threat of death, while moral courage is the ability to act rightly in the...
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This is Uptitude. A place of happiness and positivity. An oasis of joy in a challenging world. So you would be forgiven for thinking that adding the theme of Santa Claus to it would only further elevate the mood. While it may well do, I have a few thoughts...
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What is stress? Although it seems a simple questions, the answer is not so straight forward. In general the meaning of “stress” is associated with the feeling that what we are asked to do, manage or cope with something that goes above what we can actually take. Stress comes...
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Do you sometimes feel as if you are just sinking or drowning under a never-ending wave of problems? How do you, or can you pull yourself through this and keep your head above water? A couple of years ago I was part of a group who would regularly meet...
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Have the courage to live a life true to yourself (…). November (or this whole year) is quite a harsh month for a lot of people, including me. A lot of my friends have had some very difficult times lately and at some point I didn’t know what to...
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Ok, I finally decided to do this! After seeing several times all the people in a train wagon with their phones, checking out the latest news available, I decided I had to cut off all this “media/social/gossip” stuff. I realized that I used to spend time concentrating on things...
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At least once a month, I take a 3 hours long train ride to spend time with my family. It’s my escape from the hectic capital of Romania. I’d go to my grandparents’ house and we’d just hang out, talking about different things. My grandparents are the sweetest ever. The...
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Because of the job of my husband, my family moved around quite a bit. Normally every 3 to 4 years. About a year ago time came to move from sunny Rome, Italy to green The Hague, The Netherlands. As that was not a new destination for us, at the...
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