by Larae Quy | Jan 29, 2018 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
As an FBI agent, I was surrounded by people who had a strong sense of right and wrong. Research shows that emotions are strongly connected to our morality—the ability to tell right from wrong. Since strong emotions were closely connected to my fellow agents’...
by Larae Quy | Jan 8, 2018 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Psychology, self-awareness
Empathy is one of the most popular topics brought up for discussion by my executive coaching clients. It’s not surprising because empathy is one the most important instrument in a leader’s toolbox. Effective leaders make it a priority to take care of their people. In...
by Larae Quy | Jan 1, 2018 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
As a new agent at the FBI Academy, happiness was not a priority. Our instructors took great delight when they uncovered our weaknesses. Once discovered, their dry little hearts made it their mission to push us as far into our discomfort zones as possible. I had...
by Larae Quy | Dec 18, 2017 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Emotional intelligence is not taught at the FBI Academy, but it was essential for me to understand the difference between anxiety and sadness when I interviewed people. I needed to know whether I could trust them. I recruited foreign spies to work for the FBI so it...
by Larae Quy | Dec 11, 2017 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
We love stories about underdogs who beat the odds and figure out how to get through hard times. They provide encouragement that, we too, can be victorious and achieve success. We’d prefer to watch others get through hard times from the safety of our armchair. A...
by Larae Quy | Dec 4, 2017 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Mentally tough people have surrounded me my entire life. My Dad picked away at a challenge until he found a way around it. As an FBI agent, I found even more mentally strong people who worked their way through sticky and complex investigations. They took bold new...
by Larae Quy | Nov 27, 2017 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
When I was 12 years old, I learned a big lesson about some of the traits essential for success. We got word around noon that my Dad’s father was in the hospital and not expected to live. Earlier that week, 4 feet of thick, wet snow fell on our remote Wyoming cattle...
by Larae Quy | Nov 20, 2017 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Leading a good life is often like looking at grass—it’s always greener on the other side. We see the life other people lead and think to ourselves, “That should be me.” If we suffer from a serious ailment or experience a traumatic loss, it’s only human to wish the...
by Larae Quy | Nov 13, 2017 | personal leadership
As a Baby Boomer, I spent my formative years listening to the news with a healthy dose of cynicism. I grew up when librarians taught us research skills. Gone are those days since libraries have been replaced by Google and other search engines. Millennials spent their...
by Larae Quy | Nov 6, 2017 | personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
I could not avoid difficult conversations in my line of work. My job as an FBI agent was to pull back the surface and probe for the truth. Often, my difficult conversations involved people who were too scared to admit anything. They wanted to keep the truth hidden,...
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