by Guillermo Villar | Dec 3, 2015 | Blog
When I tell people what I do as a coach, sometimes I say: “I help people figure out what they want to be when they grow up… at any age.” That usually gets a smirk, and sometimes it elicits something like: “Hey, I’m...
by Guillermo Villar | Nov 22, 2015 | Blog
This week in North America we celebrate Thanksgiving, and for my part, I’m thankful to have had the opportunity to spend time with my grandmother-in-law Loretta before she died earlier this month at the age of 102. That’s quite a run, any way you measure...
by Guillermo Villar | Oct 11, 2015 | Blog
During a career management workshop I delivered recently for an MBA program, one of the students said something very interesting around the subject of being comfortable with “not knowing” that many of us could probably benefit from. As part of the...
by Guillermo Villar | Sep 27, 2015 | Blog
When I tell people what I do for a living—help folks who don’t enjoy what they do for work figure out what they really want to do ‘when they grow up’—I get a variety of reactions. Some of the most common ones are: “Where were you a...
by Guillermo Villar | Sep 5, 2015 | Blog
Have you ever noticed what you daydream about when your work life isn’t going so great? It can give you helpful clues about what you’d really like to do. A few years ago I was working my corporate job, and not loving it—in fact, feeling quite...
by Guillermo Villar | Aug 23, 2015 | Blog
In an interview that musician Bob Dylan gave to a New York Daily News reporter in 1967, he said: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night, and in between does what he wants to do I happen to agree. While we can argue about...