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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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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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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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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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« A habit is a choice that we deliberately made at some point, and then stop thinking about, but continuously doing, often every day.” Charles Dunhigg, in the Power of Habit How is the challenge going so far? After having shared the recipe for a successful habit change, let’s...
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Trust is a BIG word. It is something we wish we could do but at the same time we are also afraid of it. So let’s start the conversation. We all have at one point trusted someone or something and it went wrong. It does happen and in most...
Read more“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.” Mahatma Gandhi I was thinking about this respect issue during these last weeks while moving to a new office (with other 4 women) and having some very demanding family queries. So what is respect...
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Nowadays social networks actually prevent people from being social and networking It was a few weeks ago that I took a family trip in the Netherlands and Belgium. My mother is very passionate about traveling and seeing as much as possible. For this trip she chose many cities and...
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The need to feel is maybe the only thing that makes me wake up in the morning. Every time I look around myself I see the beauty of the nature waiting for us to be grateful for the chance to feel it. It is so strange that people usually...
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All of us, as some point of our lives had trouble in finding “our way”. So we had an early/middle/late life crisis, (a lot of) wrong dating and bad relationships, weight problems, low self-esteem issues and so on. Well, guess what, that time is over! And it is over...
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