You Can Manifest the Reality You Want

by Guillermo Vidal | May 30, 2021 | Aging Well, Becoming Your Best Self

I love the stories about genies and magic lamps. Imagine rubbing an old magic lamp and having a genie come out to grant all of your wishes. This fantasy has a ring of truth to it, except for you are the genie in the bottle with the power to get for you what you...

Is Lying Ever Acceptable?

by Guillermo Vidal | May 23, 2021 | Becoming Your Best Self

We are all guilty of being dishonest. We lie about our age, weight, or why we are late. Some cheat on their taxes, others on their spouses. Some embellish their experience and education on their resumes. Deceiving others is so common in our culture that many assume it...

Learning to Open Our Minds is More Important Now than Ever

by Guillermo Vidal | May 16, 2021 | Becoming Your Best Self

It is easy to lose hope that we can bridge our country’s ideological divide. More than ever, we must try, but we need to do something different to create unity; we must listen and understand those who differ from us. Asking someone to explain their opinion is a...

Labeling Another is the Same as Rejecting Them

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...

Your Purpose is not Defined by Titles and Achievements

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...

Make Pleasing Yourself Your Highest Priority

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...