Bagno Vignoni. A bottle of wine. Talks. *** I have experienced something new this weekend, on the eve of my birthday. The emotion of someone who really listens and it is interested in what I had to say. The emotion of just speaking what I...
Read moreEmotion. Butterflies in your stomach from your first Crush on someone? Floating and skipping through your day on a wave of Happiness? These are all symptoms of emotions, after effects if you will. When do you feel and experience the real, RAW emotions? I’m talking about your body feeling...
Read moreI recently turned 28 and questions about where I am, what have I achieved so far, what comes next, pop up more and more in my head every single day. For me, as for many other people, accepting and loving myself proves to be a long journey. Thankfully I...
Read moreI always wonder who I am and what made me who and what I am today. There is a saying in my country that tends to generalize a bit behaviour and judges parents and family more than it judges the misbehaved, naughty, cheeky…you. It says that the reason why you...
Read moreI 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:...
Read more“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,...
Read moreWhat 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...
Read moreFollowing the challenge my friends and colleagues came up with I am trying to articulate the now in my life, which feels like a never-ending soap opera…it sounds funny, but trust me it has so much drama that my liver is now in intensive therapy. The now: I have...
Read moreThe idea for this article came after a chat with Simon and other MCC members, while realizing that we have been a bit absent on Uptitude lately. So he proposed a challenge – writing about what we experienced lately. So here it is. I am living a “selfish” moment and I...
Read moreWhat 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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