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“We are what we think!” I have heard this more than once from motivational speakers and authors. If I think that I am a strict father, then I will act like one: my beliefs and my thoughts will govern my actions when I am engaged in that specific role, and so a...

I wish that in my first week as a newcomer I had understood why I had this compulsive need for comparing almost everything - socially, culturally, geographically, economically, politically, etc. - between Canada, my new country, and Italy, my native one! I should have...

I woke up on this typically cold Canadian November morning with the impulse to write something about my life of a few years ago. I wanted to share something that I used to do and that, because of the changes that I have gone through, I don’t do anymore. Some of you...

I guess there is nothing wrong with following the advice of others when we don’t know what to do. Since we were little kids, we have all been told, directly or indirectly, that this is normal, some of us more than others. I remember my Mother’s advice to me at the...

I am aware that my insights about this topic will not win unanimous consent, and I am perfectly okay with that. I prefer to pay the price of losing one hundred readers in order to help one single immigrant to shift into an inspired, victorious mode, rather than have a...

When I decided to experiment immigration, I unknowingly signed up to experience the most intense feeling of loneliness ever! I landed in this enormous North American country, where distances are ten times greater than in my small Italy, where the weather could...

This “getting stuck in the details” is a behavior that I did not have when I decided to leave Italy, and honestly, none of the “happy immigrants” I know have had it either. It is, however, a widespread trend in the “about to become” immigrants’ community; it is all...

This is a hot and interesting topic for new or future immigrants. Even educated and experienced immigrants struggle to find appropriate job in a new land, which often compel them to work with compatriots. If I were to rely solely on my own personal experience and...

I am excited to share what I have learned about this delicate topic that has personally influenced my wife and I as well as other immigrants. My Uncle Sam, my Aunt Maria, and their kids are nothing short of being the best family members that one could hope to find on...