by Larae Quy | May 14, 2018 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Movies and television depict heroes who have a strong mind. We admire people who push the limits. Heroes and tough guys let us walk in their shoes, if only for a couple of hours. We feel what it’s like to have the mental toughness to break out of a seemingly boring...
by Larae Quy | Apr 30, 2018 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
My grandmother knew how to develop a strong mind with lots of spunk and grit. She was a crack shot with a shotgun. She never allowed me to say “I can’t” when she told me to do my chores. Come summer, she was the kind of person who would rather burn her front yard than...
by Larae Quy | Apr 23, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
The biggest challenge I had in graduating from the FBI Academy was meeting the physical fitness standards. I was a slow runner and found pushups very difficult. I did not have a competitive advantage. As a result, I failed the interim FIT test and was almost washed...
by Larae Quy | Apr 16, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Anything worthwhile will require us to learn how to get through adversity. All of us will experience roadblocks in our careers, relationships, finances, and health at some point in our life. If we want to get through adversity, we need to develop a mindset of mental...
by Larae Quy | Apr 2, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
The most charismatic leader I have ever met was an FBI supervisor who had a powerful personality, a powerful sense of humor, and a powerful ability to motivate the agents who worked for him. Many of our most effective leaders are labeled charismatic and yet it was not...
by Larae Quy | Mar 19, 2018 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
As an FBI agent, I became an observer into the lives of people under investigation. Upon my retirement from the FBI, I completed graduate studies at San Francisco Theological Seminary. In the process, I became a more thoughtful observer of my own life. I started to...
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