Do You Project Your Fears onto Someone Else When Giving Advice?

by Guillermo Vidal | Jan 8, 2020 | Inspiring Leadership

For some strange reason, I always tried to scare the crap out of my children when I wanted them to stop doing something. “You will get sick if you eat all of that candy.” Funny advice coming from me considering I am the one who got them the candy in the first place....

Every Decision Has Consequences

by Guillermo Vidal | Dec 18, 2019 | Inspiring Leadership

One thing you can count on about life is that all roads lead to our individual development. There will be lessons for us no matter what path we chose. Therefore, it is so important not to judge the decisions we make proper or improper, correct or incorrect. Choosing...

How Negativity Makes Your Life Suck

by Guillermo Vidal | Oct 23, 2019 | Inspiring Leadership

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...

Any Action Made with Intention is Better Than no Action

by Guillermo Vidal | Sep 16, 2019 | Inspiring Leadership

Every decision we make in life has its own consequences. Every action we take or avoid taking brings its own challenges and struggles. If you deem procrastinating has no consequences, you are mistaken. The best step on the road to achieving your goals is to take...

It May Seem Like It, But the World is not Really Ending

by Guillermo Vidal | Aug 19, 2019 | Inspiring Leadership

Another mass shooting, missile launched, high profile controversy, along with all the assorted bad news we hear so often and it is easy to believe we are spiraling the world into oblivion. As an immigrant child who was separated from my parents by Castro”s...

Unsolicited “Constructive Criticism” is Pretty Worthless

by Guillermo Vidal | Jul 15, 2019 | Inspiring Leadership

Most people believe we can always do better. This may seem like an honorable and humble attitude to have, but it is a pronouncement that is too open-ended by which to judge our efforts. We can be better according to whom, or based on what standard? Unfortunately,...