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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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Apologizing is something I never thought about, as for me is quite natural (sometimes even without meaning it for real). Yes, I admit it! As a person with a very strong self-esteem, I have this problem, especially when I am not convinced that I did something wrong (for my...
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We all know smoking is bad for our health. It is written on every package and every doctor will tell you this. As many, I was struggling with quitting. I tried it a couple of times but without luck. My day used to start with a cup of coffee...
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There we were in the plane, which was shaking violently in what should have been a standard landing. The turbulence was as bad as anything I had felt before as the storm was blowing up around us. Then I saw something that really caught my attention. A thing that...
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There is something very interesting about these times: we are used to immediate reactions. We do not like to delay pleasure; we are keen on instant gratification even if the long term effects are damaging and will cost us more. We all want to live a healthy, successful and...
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This weekend, Uptitude will be presenting in this exciting new event of the Perugia Business Group. It’s something new and a great opportunity to learn lots of stuff and network with business people from the area. If you are in Italy, Umbria and talk Italian, join us! It’s opened and...
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Looking for fun and excitement? Do you sometimes feel like you are living within a confined domain of potential experiences – searching for new experiences but not really knowing why, except that they are fun and they take you outside of your normal day to day programming? What if...
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I love getting my first cappuccino in the morning at the place at the corner: the friendly smile of the lady preparing it for me gives more of a boost in the day than the caffeine itself! Being positive, “positive thinking”, has to do with approaching difficult events by...
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Speaking about the GOD Complex is too complex and one cannot say that the subject is completely covered… like ever. Also, as per Plato’s “cave allegory”, every opinion, every concept, every truth, every attitude is subject to interpretation. Even the GOD Complex. In the last article we talked about...
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It always amazes me how we keep cycling ideas that other people had long before we were even born. Since Richard Dawkins, this is called a meme, coming from the Greek word mimema which means “imitated thing”. So what is a meme? It is an idea, behavior, or style...
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