by Guillermo Vidal | May 3, 2021 | Becoming Your Best Self
What is your favorite brand to put on people? Epithets like redneck, communist, socialist, asshole, lowlife, uneducated, high-maintenance and loudmouthed are common ones. There are others that don’t seem so offensive but put boundaries around the targeted person’s...
by Guillermo Vidal | Apr 11, 2021 | Becoming Your Best Self
Even if you accept that every person is just one of countless microcosms in the Universe, nature shows you daily that even the smallest organism has purpose. Let’s take the human body as an example. Scientist have proven that your body replaces every cell roughly...
by Guillermo Vidal | Mar 22, 2021 | Becoming Your Best Self
In his book, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake, Srinivas Rao states, “Work for an audience of one. When the only person you are trying to please is yourself, judgements vanish, and in that process, we become more present.” Damn it! I wish...
by Guillermo Vidal | Mar 14, 2021 | Becoming Your Best Self
I have been pondering this question ever since an old memory of my father came up during my meditation time. This memory pertained to a time when my father was giving me a warning about keeping my guard up to protect myself from other people. His words of caution went...
by Guillermo Vidal | Mar 7, 2021 | Becoming Your Best Self
I could have titled this piece “How to forgive your abusers”, but I think surviving a troubled childhood is about a lot more than forgiving those who made you suffer. It is about understanding how a troubled childhood has affected your life and kept you from becoming...
by Guillermo Vidal | Feb 28, 2021 | Becoming Your Best Self
Setting and enforcing boundaries is necessary if you want to maintain healthy relationships. Many of us, however, were trained to do exactly the opposite. Our parents, teachers and mentors convinced us that it was selfish to take care of our needs before the needs of...
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Labeling Another is the Same as Rejecting Them
Because the World Measures Some as Having a Lower Social Status and Less Money than Others Does not Mean They Have Lesser Value
Finding Love in all the Right Places
Your Purpose is not Defined by Titles and Achievements