by Guillermo Vidal | Aug 13, 2018 | Becoming Your Best Self
My mother was the last remaining member of my family from her generation. Her death a year ago Christmas Eve was another reminder that my turn is coming. I know no one will survive this journey, but that doesn’t bother me anymore, for I made peace long ago with the...
by Guillermo Vidal | Aug 6, 2018 | Aging Well
Unless you have been living in isolation from people in some monastery hidden in Nepal, the rest of us know there are people in this world we don’t belong with. Nobody warned us about this when we were young. In fact, someone taught us the opposite. My parents taught...
by Guillermo Vidal | Jul 30, 2018 | Becoming Your Best Self
I have lost count of how many versions of “do what you love, and the money will follow” I have seen. Many modern self-help gurus make this promise to convince us to follow our passions. Some insist that we can make this money appear once we start taking daily steps in...
by Guillermo Vidal | Jul 23, 2018 | Spiritual Development
Love is the most overused word in our language. We use love with the same reckless abandon we reserve for other four-letter words. Because love has been used to describe how we feel about everything, we lessened its meaning; to sense a strong or constant affection for...
by Guillermo Vidal | Jul 9, 2018 | Aging Well
One of the great myths in our society is that the older we get, the more set in our ways we become. We have been convinced that, as people grow older, they become more closed minded and stop learning and growing. This is implied by the old axiom: You can’t teach an...