by Paola Andreoli | Mar 24, 2017 | Thoughts
This week is very important for parents of sixth graders all over Spain: we have to choose the new school that our children will attend during the next six years and that will determine their access to university or the professional world. When we talk about the...
by Paola Andreoli | Mar 9, 2017 | Thoughts
I am not happy about how things are going in my life. Careful, I am not saying that things are going wrong, on the contrary, everything, in general, is fine: my daughter is healthy and happy, in my family there are no health issues or financial troubles, my job is the...
by Paola Andreoli | Feb 13, 2017 | Thoughts
I recently read a book written by an adorable Japanese woman that sparks joy: Marie Kondo (The life-changing magic of tidying up, Ten Speed Pr, 2014). The Konmari Method is based on an extremely simple concept: to keep only the essential, the things that make us feel...
by Paola Andreoli | Jan 10, 2017 | Thoughts
Taking a decision and stubbornly focusing straight ahead as if we were wearing blinkers is a very common attitude. We have a dream in our heart or an idea in our head, we want to achieve a particular goal, and that becomes the axis about which every detail of our life...
by Paola Andreoli | Dec 22, 2016 | Thoughts
These are difficult days. Christmas is just around the corner and all I can do is to run around like a headless chicken to buy pyjamas for my sister or a sweatshirt for my niece. Christmas should be a time of withdrawal from our everyday life, of silence, of moments...
by Paola Andreoli | Dec 16, 2016 | Thoughts
A person I am really fond of has just separated from her husband. Nothing new under the sun, separations are very frequent nowadays. So much so, that in our group we have come to develop a ‘protocol’ to help the friend involved in a divorce to face the situation in...
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