by Larae Quy | Apr 23, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
The biggest challenge I had in graduating from the FBI Academy was meeting the physical fitness standards. I was a slow runner and found pushups very difficult. I did not have a competitive advantage. As a result, I failed the interim FIT test and was almost washed...
by Larae Quy | Apr 16, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Anything worthwhile will require us to learn how to get through adversity. All of us will experience roadblocks in our careers, relationships, finances, and health at some point in our life. If we want to get through adversity, we need to develop a mindset of mental...
by Larae Quy | Apr 9, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, self-awareness
I loved being an FBI agent because there was a sense of meaning and purpose every time I walked into the office. The FBI’s mission is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States. I worked hard to solve complex problems. You might be...
by Larae Quy | Apr 2, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
The most charismatic leader I have ever met was an FBI supervisor who had a powerful personality, a powerful sense of humor, and a powerful ability to motivate the agents who worked for him. Many of our most effective leaders are labeled charismatic and yet it was not...
by Larae Quy | Mar 19, 2018 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
As an FBI agent, I became an observer into the lives of people under investigation. Upon my retirement from the FBI, I completed graduate studies at San Francisco Theological Seminary. In the process, I became a more thoughtful observer of my own life. I started to...
by Larae Quy | Mar 5, 2018 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, self-awareness
As a female FBI agent, I needed to come across as confident when interviewing suspects. Confidence sent the message that I was both competent and in a position of authority. I focused on conveying the right body language with shoulders back, head up, and making direct...
by Larae Quy | Feb 26, 2018 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
I make an effort to surround myself with positive people. Positive thinking is a cornerstone of mental toughness because positivity creates a mindset that can adapt to obstacles and roadblocks that show up in both business and life. Unfortunately, positive thinking...
by Larae Quy | Feb 18, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
I learned how to become mentally tough after I failed the interim physical fitness test at the FBI Academy. With this failure came the understanding that I was not so great after all and that I stood a good chance of being washed out. I became obsessed with improving...
by Larae Quy | Feb 12, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
At the end of each school day, I’d head out to play on a rockslide near our house in Wyoming. I created an imaginary town with stores, houses, and businesses. I built a miniature Fort Laramie, complete with a jail for the bad guys I locked up. My brother ended up...
by Larae Quy | Feb 5, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
As a kid, I helped trail hundreds of cows and calves from the shelter of the foothills to summer pasture in the high country near Laramie Peak. Early on, my life’s challenges were to saddle a horse on my own and push cows along the trail. My Dad taught me to saddle...
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