What Dancing Salsa is Teaching Me About Life

by Guillermo Vidal | Dec 28, 2020 | Becoming Your Best Self

Some of the best salseros (salsa dancers) in the world come from the Caribbean island I call home; Cuba. During my two return visits to my homeland—in 2001 and 2017, forty years after my parents sent me fleeing Castro’s Revolution to the United States—this joyful and...

Does Failing at Something Mean You Were Not Trying Hard Enough?

by Guillermo Vidal | Dec 21, 2020 | Becoming Your Best Self

There is probably no single person alive in America today (and perhaps the world) who has not heard the advice, “whatever you do, always give it your best.” I grew up convinced this was expert advice, even noble and admirable. We should always give everything we do...

How Negativity Makes Your Life Suck

by Guillermo Vidal | Dec 14, 2020 | Becoming Your Best Self

One of my all-time favorite characters on Saturday Night Live was Debbie Downer. Comedian Rachel Dratch played this fictional character in several SNL skits, and she was hilarious. The formula for these spoofs was always the same, Debbie would interrupt a cheerful...

You Are Everything You Think You Are

by Guillermo Vidal | Dec 7, 2020 | Becoming Your Best Self

We misunderstand the power of the mind to create our reality. This is apparent in the way people use affirmations as though they were desires someone out there can fulfill for them.   I think the use of affirmations is important, but I am certain you cannot get a...

When Was the Last time You Did Something that Scared You?

by Guillermo Vidal | Nov 30, 2020 | Becoming Your Best Self

Society encourages us to use caution at the expense of curiosity. Our teachers, parents and mentors were not trying to do us harm with these instructions, this is what someone taught them. But these directives convinced us it is bad to make a mistake or to get lost...

Negative Emotions are Signs You Need to Take Action

by Guillermo Vidal | Nov 23, 2020 | Becoming Your Best Self

Nothing in life is stationary, yet we assign permanency to many situations, like having good health, or being with one partner in a long-term romantic union. When these things change or go away, we find ourselves caught in a quagmire of negative emotions. Our ego’s...