by Guillermo Vidal | Sep 8, 2017 | Becoming Your Best Self
All my hurricane shutters are in place. The car is packed with water, emergency food supplies and clothes to last me for ten days. All of this in preparation and anticipation of the unwelcomed visit that wild bitch, Hurricane Irma, is about to make to my neck of the...
by Guillermo Vidal | Sep 7, 2017 | Becoming Your Best Self
The late American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou, is credited with one of my favorite quotes. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them; the first time.” It was my destiny, of course, to ignore this lesson until my late fifties when...
by Guillermo Vidal | Aug 9, 2017 | Becoming Your Best Self
All of us went to bed last night wondering if our world was heading towards a nuclear war. This morning’s news didn’t make me feel any better, as coverage continues to highlight this Russian Roulette style foreign policy being practiced by two powerful world...
by Guillermo Vidal | Aug 3, 2017 | Becoming Your Best Self
A few months ago, my daughter Molly had a brilliant idea. Based on her great memories of the road trips we had taken together when she was a child, she suggested I fly out to her home in Texas and help drive back to my home in Vero Beach, Florida with her two young...
by Guillermo Vidal | Jul 13, 2017 | Becoming Your Best Self
Having spent the last couple of years ruminating in search of my spiritual path, I came across one of the main tenets of new spiritual thought called “the law of attraction”. Thinking I had discovered one of the greatest secrets of life, I began to apply this theory...
by Guillermo Vidal | Jun 22, 2017 | Becoming Your Best Self
The question of forgiveness has been around me a lot lately. Perhaps this past Father’s Day made me recall the thorny relationship I shared with my father and mother. A week ago, as I was cycling in Spain, I had plenty of time to reflect on the topic. I have always...