by Larae Quy | Oct 30, 2023 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
The FBI requires agents to take annual physicals, including a treadmill test every few years. That year was my time for the examination. Dr. General (his first name, believe it or not) hooked me up so he could follow my heart and lung responses. I was panting along at...
by Larae Quy | Oct 26, 2023 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
As a kid growing up on a remote cattle ranch in Wyoming, I grew up scrappy. I had to be fast to outrun a charging bull and innovative enough to find a way to saddle a horse so tall that my stirrup came to rest at eye level. I never thought much about well-being and...
by Larae Quy | Sep 29, 2023 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
As an FBI agent, I quickly learned that the “needs of the Bureau” would always come first. Transfers, assignments, and caseloads were handed out with little or no consideration for how they would impact the agent. We were given jobs that often seemed impossible to fit...
by Larae Quy | Aug 3, 2023 | Mental toughness, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
I grew up on a cattle ranch in Wyoming, where I spent more time with animals than with people. I love animals, even the smelly ones with bad tempers who fling snot and stomp the ground. When I moved into an urban area, I had to leave them behind, but I kept fond...
by Larae Quy | May 11, 2023 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
First came the Great Resignation, only to be followed by the Great Emergence as the workplace drags itself into a post-pandemic existence. The emerging reality for leaders is that Covid has made well-being an urgent priority. A recent Gallop Poll indicates that “fewer...
by Larae Quy | Jan 5, 2023 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
As an FBI counterintelligence agent, my job was to identify and recruit Russian spies to work for the United States Government. Little did they know that the Russian government gave my colleagues and me the most powerful gift, a toxic system filled with corruption,...
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