by Larae Quy | Feb 24, 2020 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
The consequences of our feel-good-at-all-costs culture have finally caught up with us. It’s produced a generation (or two) of people who are depressed and feel lonely, isolated, and misunderstood at work. It’s hard to spring from the coddled world of childhood into...
by Larae Quy | Nov 4, 2019 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
I learned that FBI agents need mental toughness to chip away at messy cases that can last for years. I learned that to ignore a problem case won’t make it go away, either. Instead, I worked through the problems until I found an answer. Innocent people rely on...
by Larae Quy | Oct 21, 2019 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Why can’t I get more things done? Why am I falling behind in my career? Why am I afraid to start something new? Our inner critic can be brutal. It reminds us that we’re not good enough, we’re not smart enough, and we’ll never reach our goal. Our inner critic worries...
by Larae Quy | Oct 14, 2019 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Is there a way to live a better life? Leadership is not just for department heads, entrepreneurs, or people with impressive nameplates. You can’t be an effective leader of anything, big or small until you learn how to lead your own life. It comes down to the ability...
by Larae Quy | Oct 7, 2019 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Can self-awareness really help us reach our goals? Most people do not want want to be labeled as narcissistic, as someone absorbed with themselves 24/7. Yet the focus on self, or self-knowledge, is the single most important trait we can develop in life. Self-awareness...
by Larae Quy | Sep 30, 2019 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
I’m a hard worker and assumed this would soon become apparent to my new FBI squad. I expected my supervisor to assign me good cases, not the dog-eared ones I found on my desk. It became apparent that if I wanted to shine, I’d need to seize my own opportunities and not...
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