Which You Are You Promising to Be in 2020?

by Guillermo Vidal | Jan 6, 2020 | Becoming Your Best Self

Ringing in the New Year with a plethora of resolutions is a well-known aspect of this annual celebration. The will to adhere to them is always strong in the new year’s first days, but come the second week in January, the desire to change has gone as if they were...

Your Greatest Power is in the Now

by Guillermo Vidal | Dec 11, 2019 | Becoming Your Best Self

How to prepare for the future was a big part of what my parents taught me. I adhered to their advice for decades on the assumption I could create a future I could plan for today. Little did I stop to reflect on the fact that I could never predict what will happen in...

Your Ego Wants Bring Pain and Disappointment 

by Guillermo Vidal | Dec 2, 2019 | Becoming Your Best Self

Everything I have ever done rooted in self-seeking has never amounted to much. The same goes for the things I longed for in the material world. Having a bigger home, a new car, latest styles and most modern gadgets filled my inner emptiness for just a little while. It...

You Can Live a Fulfilling Life Being Selfish, But There is a Catch

by Guillermo Vidal | Nov 20, 2019 | Becoming Your Best Self

No matter how you slice it, everything we do is for our personal benefit. We love someone because we get something from them; we do a job because we profit from the rewards, we buy showy things to be seen as cool. Even our play is done for our pleasure. This is how we...

Becoming Your Best Self – You Are a Force to Be Reckoned With

by Guillermo Vidal | Nov 13, 2019 | Becoming Your Best Self

How many nights have you spent whining and whimpering about the things that didn’t work out, like the promotion you didn’t get or the lover who got away? How many hours have you wasted afraid of making an important decision or worrying that the decision you made may...

Nothing in the Universe Goes Backward, You Included 

by Guillermo Vidal | Nov 6, 2019 | Becoming Your Best Self

Historians credit author Thomas Wolfe for coming up with the expression, “You can’t go home again”. Although this was the title of his book, many people have used this idiom to describe the notion that you cannot return to the way things were. I am positive Wolfe...