by Larae Quy | Apr 20, 2021 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
My grandmother was a tough old bird. She lived in a time and place where she needed to be resilient if she expected to survive tough winters on a Wyoming cattle ranch. If I moped around while doing chores she would yell, “Get the lead out of your ass and start...
by Larae Quy | Apr 5, 2021 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
There’s a lot of crap going on in the world and it’s tempting to throw tantrums and dissolve into a puddle of self-pity. It feels like the right thing to do because other people need to know how unfair life is, right? Like when we were in second grade and cried until...
by Larae Quy | Mar 15, 2021 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
It’s hard to make sense of the world right now; we’re in the middle of a pandemic, racial strife, and a political divide in America that looks more like Dante’s version of hell every day. We’re bombarded with social media, camera phones, and a 24/7 news cycle....
by Larae Quy | Mar 2, 2021 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
It’s no secret that we’re faced with a growing mental health crisis right now and many of us are experiencing incredible amounts of pain and suffering. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll reported that nearly half of Americans report the coronavirus crisis is harming...
by Larae Quy | Feb 23, 2021 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
As a female FBI agent, there weren’t always a lot of women in my office—or in the building, for that matter. The closest thing to a mentor I had was my male training agent, who viewed me as more of a burden than an opportunity. But it had been to my advantage to be...
by Larae Quy | Feb 9, 2021 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
FBI agents who investigate knotty and complex cases—such as terrorism, cybercrime, and counterintelligence—need to develop a strong mind if they want to be successful. Investigations like these don’t show up on an agent’s desk with directions on how to solve them....
by Larae Quy | Jan 26, 2021 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Many of us know exactly what to do with the news reported in 2020 and we’re busy lining our bird cages with it so nature can take its course. We are slowly emerging from the Trump—Woke Progressives—Twitter trifecta that’s left us feeling depressed, anxious, and...
by Larae Quy | Jan 5, 2021 | Mental toughness, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Over a 24 year career, FBI Firearms instructors made us repeat the same series of actions on the firing range. After a while, it got so repetitive that I wondered how I would fare in a shootout if I didn’t have my firearms instructor barking out orders on what to do...
by Larae Quy | Dec 1, 2020 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Not very many people are excited to get a knock on their front door from an FBI Agent. They’re even less enthusiastic when the Agent tells them they need to speak with them about a pending investigation. Wariness can quickly turn into hostility if they think the...
by Larae Quy | Nov 23, 2020 | Anxiety, personal achievement, personal leadership, Psychology, self-awareness
When I was ten years old, I was riding my black quarter horse and helping my dad cut a horned bull from the cattle herd. The bull suddenly turned, horns first, and charged my horse. I grabbed the saddle horn; my horse pivoted on his back hooves and we got away...
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