Category: Blog

I am provoking you with this title, I want to get your attention! In this world, we are forced to use words to share our ideas with others, but we all know how misleading these can be sometimes, especially when the individuals trying to communicate with each other come from different cultures, with different ways […]

I´d like to talk about this topic from the perspective of a male Immigrant, a husband and father. I think that female Immigrants live the immigration process a little differently than men do. Before I begin, I want to clarify that the following thoughts come from a simple family guy with a high school education, […]

I often think of how wonderful the change is that I have experienced since immigrating. I look at my income, at the fine things that I can buy, at the vacations that I can enjoy with my family and at the amazing business that we are growing and that gives us the financial conditions to […]

We are going deep in this article. I am excited, because if I succeed in sharing what I have come to understand about this topic, it may save you years of painful, useless and dangerous stagnation in your growth as an Immigrant, allowing you to take off towards your dream life like a rocket ship! […]

When I immigrated to Canada, I had only been married for 10 months: in fact, my wife Daniela was not included on the original application submitted more than 3 years earlier, so when I got married, I had to communicate the change in my marital status so the application could get updated, before getting the […]

The act of starting a new life in a new country, with all its difficulties but with infinite opportunities for transforming yourself, is definitely the best decision I and many others have ever made! The possibility of packing up everything and leaving is there for everyone, and potentially, everyone has what it takes to make […]

The day I left Italy, just before going through airport security, I waved at my little brother, 13 years old at the time, and I remember those big brown wide-open eyes looking at me, but he never waved back. I knew I was his hero, but in the excitement of leaving, I forgot to have […]

  I am in the mood for coining a phrase, so here it is: “Responsibility is a quality that, when it is present in one´s life, becomes the strongest foundation on which all good can be built!” Living without a sense of responsibility is like walking through life the same way we walk through our […]

The famous quote by Lao Tzu, the ancient Chinese philosopher, “Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it…” fits the message in this article. My simple cabinetmaker’s mind perceives from this quote that I can only access the treasure (knowledge) if I use the key (practice); the answer is to practice (doing) in order […]

I saw somewhere sometime ago a line that read: “Recent US studies suggest that immigrants are four times more likely to become self-made millionaires.” I am not sure how accurate this statement is, but I have seen and met so many successful immigrants in the last 17 years that I have a feeling that the […]