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Improve your creativity with this training
Creativity is one of the most important skills in the workplace. Having ideas that are new and original, linking concepts, finding new approaches to old problems…these are all key abilities today’s...
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Past, present and future: a creative writing workshop
How difficult it is to listen to ourselves in these days full of noise. How hard it is to silence out our doubts and find our truth, when thousands of opinions shoot from everywhere. However, getting...
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Why are some families more creative than others?
The Brontë sisters, the Dumas brothers, A S Byatt and Margaret Drable, Warren Beauty and Shirley Mc Laine, the Ribisi family, the Phoenixes, the Arquettes… One of the things that most fascinates me...
View ArticleDance like nobody’s watching
Because the reality is, no one is. Nobody is paying attention. We are all too busy consuming info, receiving inputs, considering indispensable what was superfluous. Sharing content that we have not...
View Article7 questions to discover your life purpose
The most important question, maybe the only one we really need to answer is “what am I going to do with my life”. Dostoevsky used to say: the secret of human existence lies not only in living, but in...
View ArticleYour children need your talent
(If you don’t understand Spanish, here you have the transcription): This video is dedicated to you, a person with children and also a passion and a talent that goes beyond your “real job”. Maybe you...
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Great productivity hacks from 15 creative genius
I’m sure you’ve seen this quote before: It made me wonder, how do some people manage to consistently deliver good work? Here you have productivity secrets from 15 of my favourite creative genius: (If...
View ArticleAn idea to keep your kids busy and develop their creativity
Some of you have written me asking for ideas to turn off those screens after school. You wanted a tool that could keep your child away from ipads and TV for a while. The “creative table” or “creative...
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When children increase your creativity: Rania Matar & Tara Donovan
Last week we talked about the importance of continuing to cultivate your own talent after motherhood. Today I bring two great examples of creative mothers for you to discover with your children. Both...
View ArticleHOW TO INSTILL A SENSE OF EFFORT IN CHILDREN
Our children have it all relatively easy. They don’t lack food, clothes, toys, playtime… they grow up in a frantic world where some fun is a click away and opening the refrigerator is enough to get...
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The gifts of uncertainty
Remember the time when people would say “go for this degree because you will find work for sure”? The days when we’d hear “that investment is guaranteed”? Or “that business will be booming in no...
View ArticleWhat’s a chocolate idea? My PuntoMom talk
A few months ago I was invited to be part of the PuntoMom event. It was such a great day! I met many interesting people and learned and laughed lots (isn’t that the best combination?). The organization...
View ArticleThe story of the precious stones
A few years ago I discovered Kelvin Doe’s story and was deeply touched. It is a story about passion and talent. A story about the importance of letting kids explore freely. Overall, it is a story about...
View ArticleOur children have no words anymore
Emoticons, abreviations…we are using fewer words every passing day. That means exposing our children to a smaller vocabulary than the one we used to listen at their age. What’s more: children stimuli...
View ArticleChanging things with Laura Baena
Today we begin a new section on the Youtube channel. A series of interviews (more like coffee dates ;)) with some of my most creative friends. These are all persons that took an existing concept and...
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Another tool to develop your children’s creativity and language skills
Isn’t your home full of tiny toys? Mine sure is. Little cars, monsters, small dolls…my girls find them inside chocolate eggs, in pound shops, inside cereal boxes…The amount of this little things in...
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What can you do?
The other day a friend of mine commented that she no longer opens the window every morning to see what the weather is like. She finds it more natural to grab her phone from the bedside table, while...
View ArticleChanging things with Joseángel Murcia
Today my friend Joseángel, one of the most creative persons I know, came over for a chat and a coffee. Joseángel is changing the way we think about maths with his blog, Tocamates, and his Verne...
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How to make homework fun
Lately everybody’s talking about homework. The increasingly heavy load of homework of our schools has brought lots of complains from families that want more time to play with their kids after school....
View ArticleChanging things with Fabián León and Marta Simonet
Today my friends Fabián León and Marta Simonet came to visit. They are two of the most creative persons I know and I wanted to talk with them about their great adventure: Mésame Mucho, a project that...
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