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Why Courage Is Essential If You Want Power Over Your Life

Why Courage Is Essential If You Want Power Over Your Life

by Larae Quy | May 18, 2022 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

When I arrived as a new agent on my squad, I was the only female and the youngest. Everyone was polite, but my caseload was full of dead-end leads that the older and more experienced agents didn’t want to waste their time on. My desk was at the end farthest from the...
4 Effective Ways You Can Become More Resilient In 2022

4 Effective Ways You Can Become More Resilient In 2022

by Larae Quy | Apr 25, 2022 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

During this pandemic, I’ve read many ridiculous articles about how resilience means “bouncing through” our obstacles—as though riding out this shitstorm is life on a trampoline. These bandaids of advice do nothing to encourage people to look for the deep healing they...
10 Easy Backdoor Ways To Gain The Upper Hand In Conversations

10 Easy Backdoor Ways To Gain The Upper Hand In Conversations

by Larae Quy | Apr 1, 2022 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

Some of my biggest laughs come from watching Hollywood movies and TV shows depicting FBI agents as indestructible bullies walking that fine line between good and evil. They are either taking the law into their own hands in their pursuit of justice or abusing their...
How A Mental Toughness Assessment Gives People The Extra Advantage In Life

How A Mental Toughness Assessment Gives People The Extra Advantage In Life

by Larae Quy | Mar 14, 2022 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Psychology, self-awareness

As a child, I had no friends growing up on a remote Wyoming cattle ranch—I didn’t fit in and felt out of place with other kids my age. As an adult, my first job out of college sucked the soul from me—there were a few hard knocks before I finally landed in a career...
How Wellbeing Can Help People Get Through Hard Times

How Wellbeing Can Help People Get Through Hard Times

by Larae Quy | Mar 7, 2022 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

My first job out of college sucked the soul out of me. My degree turned out to be more of a coupon with an expiration date than a ticket to a fulfilled life. I didn’t prosper on any level, and it began to affect my mental health. I had thoughts of suicide because if...
How Mindfulness Can Help You Become More Efficient and Effective

How Mindfulness Can Help You Become More Efficient and Effective

by Larae Quy | Feb 8, 2022 | Mental toughness, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

People talk a lot these days about being “cautiously optimistic” as we try to return to normal, whatever that is. Many Americans have begun a deep reconsideration of how they have lived, and how they should live in the future. Can we use this time in history to become...
A Meltdown On The Way? Effective Ways You Can Develop Self-Compassion

A Meltdown On The Way? Effective Ways You Can Develop Self-Compassion

by Larae Quy | Jan 29, 2022 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Psychology, self-awareness

Wyoming winters can be hard, even harder when you live on a cattle ranch at an elevation of 7500 ft. When the wind whistled off Laramie Peak, one of our biggest worries was that the wind-driven snow would push the cattle into ravines where they would be covered up by...
How To Gain Control Over Burnout, The Other Epidemic

How To Gain Control Over Burnout, The Other Epidemic

by Larae Quy | Jan 14, 2022 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal leadership, Psychology, self-awareness

As we continue to deal with the news geyser known as COVID, we’re left with the opportunity—no, the need—to take a closer look at our own lives. On one hand, science has triumphed. On the other hand, we feel as though we’re in a disaster movie, standing in front of a...
4 Ways Mental Toughness Can Help People Gain Clarity In Life

4 Ways Mental Toughness Can Help People Gain Clarity In Life

by Larae Quy | Jan 3, 2022 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

As a kid, my parents gave me no choice—I was going to go to college after I graduated from high school. I had no clarity on what to do with my life, so I followed the blueprint laid out by my parents. I followed the path chosen for me all through school, and when I...
This Is How Smart Risk-Takers Succeed

This Is How Smart Risk-Takers Succeed

by Larae Quy | Dec 13, 2021 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

One of the first things I learned as a new FBI agent was that risk would always be part of my job. Not every day, and not in every investigation, but there would always be some element of risk if I wanted to move toward success.  This applies to all areas of life...
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