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How A Strong Mind Can Help People Recover From A Mistake

How A Strong Mind Can Help People Recover From A Mistake

by Larae Quy | Jul 19, 2021 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

Show me someone who has never made a mistake and I will show you someone who has never accomplished anything meaningful in their life. They are losers, people who are generally timid and lazy—and usually selfish because it’s all about their precious feelings. They...
The Best Advice People Can Give Their Younger Self

The Best Advice People Can Give Their Younger Self

by Larae Quy | Jul 5, 2021 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

There’s something positive and uplifting about our circumstances now that the COVID pandemic promises to be a distant, albeit bad, memory. It’s especially poignant because those same memories resemble a scaled down version of the apocalypse. New beginnings are an...
How The Right Values Help Increase Your Wellbeing

How The Right Values Help Increase Your Wellbeing

by Larae Quy | Jun 25, 2021 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

I’m a firm believer that jerks are not born; they are made the old-fashioned way—from the ground up, by adults who never outgrew their selfish behavior. Jerks are groomed by people who live by crappy values and tend to be awful human beings. You know the ones I mean;...
Why The Best Leaders Know How To Be Vulnerable

Why The Best Leaders Know How To Be Vulnerable

by Larae Quy | Jun 7, 2021 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

When people meet me, they expect me to have the kind of bravado that is portrayed by FBI agents on TV and in movies—confident with no signs of weakness or vulnerability. Nothing could be further from the truth! It’s true that the most successful agents I worked...
How To Use Hope To Overcome Stress and Anxiety

How To Use Hope To Overcome Stress and Anxiety

by Larae Quy | May 11, 2021 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

2020 was about staying alive. Everything else was fluff. This summed up an email I received from one of my readers. She still has her job but it feels like hell because so many of her friends lost their job. She’s healthy but that feels like crap, too, because she’s...
4 Remarkable Ways That Meditation Creates A Strong Mind

4 Remarkable Ways That Meditation Creates A Strong Mind

by Larae Quy | May 4, 2021 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

One of the first things my firearms instructor at the FBI Academy told me that the best shooters are those who can stomp out the noise—both external and internal distractions—so they can focus on the scene in front of them. All I needed to do was relax, breathe, and...
How To Build Resilience When Life Isn’t Perfect

How To Build Resilience When Life Isn’t Perfect

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...
Grow Up And Learn How To Be Grateful

Grow Up And Learn How To Be Grateful

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...
This Is How Adversity Can Improve The Way You Think

This Is How Adversity Can Improve The Way You Think

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....
4 Practical Ways To Grow From Your Pain And Suffering

4 Practical Ways To Grow From Your Pain And Suffering

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...
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