by Larae Quy | Jan 27, 2020 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
We’re in the middle of a “make everyone feel good” culture where it’s important everyone walks away a winner. The idea that everyone gets a blue ribbon because they showed up produces a mindset that doesn’t understand how to cope with risk. Success is handed to them...
by Larae Quy | Jan 20, 2020 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
How well do you know yourself? We plan for retirement and vacations, but we seldom plan for how we’ll become a better person, the person we want to be, not the one shaped by our circumstances. Most of us assume that we’ll get the gist of this whole...
by Larae Quy | Jan 13, 2020 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
The things that come closest to killing us are the things that make us grow. Damn, why do life’s best lessons need to come wrapped up in adversity? Our obstacles will not define us; we will be defined by how we overcame them. We’ve all experienced adversity in some...
by Larae Quy | Jan 6, 2020 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
To hear the movies and books tell it, love answers all our problems. Most of us learn early on that the movies and books are wrong. There’s a clear difference between our notion of what love should be and what it’s like. It’s a hard lesson, but romantic love is...
by Larae Quy | Dec 16, 2019 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Life can suck. There are days when things go so badly that you want a refund. We’ve all heard that acceptance is the key to good psychological health, but that does nothing more than leave us in a continual state of anxiety because what we all want is a semblance of...
by Larae Quy | Dec 2, 2019 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
This is an excerpt from an interview with Michael Frank from Life Lessons. Read the entire interview here: Michael Frank: What are some of the biggest lies and myths about the FBI? And what shocked or surprised you the most when you joined? LaRae Quy: Well like...
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