Sometimes, All You Can Do is Walk Beside Someone Who is Suffering

by Guillermo Vidal | Mar 11, 2020 | Becoming Your Best Self

I don’t understand what it is in me that causes me to want to solve other people’s problems. This is a bad habit because so often I am giving advice without listening to the pain within the person. I am not alone in this, for it is common for people to blurt out their...

A Litmus Test for Leaders; Are You Helping to Create a Greater Good?

by Guillermo Vidal | Mar 9, 2020 | Inspiring Leadership

Doing the right thing is not a default position for great leaders, it is their only option. While it is important to pay attention to a person’s behavior and words, comportment alone is not enough to determine the level of his/her leadership ability. The quality of...

Become the Person You Want Others to Be

by Guillermo Vidal | Mar 4, 2020 | Becoming Your Best Self

In the heat of our many discussions, a friend of mine would often scold me with these words, “Guillermo, opinions are like a–holes, everybody has one.” This was his good-natured way of pointing out my tendency to share an opinion on everything under the sun,...

Feeling Stressed? Get Out of the Driver’s Seat

by Guillermo Vidal | Feb 24, 2020 | Spiritual Development

We have grown accustomed to have stress rule our lives. Many mistakenly believe stress is natural. Some think being under stress is a sign of an active, productive life. i was taught that, if you are not feeling stressed or struggling to accomplish something, then you...

What Scientists Say About the Existence of a Higher Being

by Guillermo Vidal | Feb 19, 2020 | Spiritual Development

Educated as a civil engineer, I have relied on the hard and fast rules of force, physics, math and mechanics of materials to guide my view of the Universe. Yet, no amount of scientific facts and mathematical equations could ever explain the inner movements of my soul....