by Larae Quy | Feb 26, 2018 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
I make an effort to surround myself with positive people. Positive thinking is a cornerstone of mental toughness because positivity creates a mindset that can adapt to obstacles and roadblocks that show up in both business and life. Unfortunately, positive thinking...
by Larae Quy | Feb 18, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
I learned how to become mentally tough after I failed the interim physical fitness test at the FBI Academy. With this failure came the understanding that I was not so great after all and that I stood a good chance of being washed out. I became obsessed with improving...
by Larae Quy | Feb 12, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
At the end of each school day, I’d head out to play on a rockslide near our house in Wyoming. I created an imaginary town with stores, houses, and businesses. I built a miniature Fort Laramie, complete with a jail for the bad guys I locked up. My brother ended up...
by Larae Quy | Feb 5, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
As a kid, I helped trail hundreds of cows and calves from the shelter of the foothills to summer pasture in the high country near Laramie Peak. Early on, my life’s challenges were to saddle a horse on my own and push cows along the trail. My Dad taught me to saddle...
by Larae Quy | Jan 29, 2018 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
As an FBI agent, I was surrounded by people who had a strong sense of right and wrong. Research shows that emotions are strongly connected to our morality—the ability to tell right from wrong. Since strong emotions were closely connected to my fellow agents’...
by Larae Quy | Jan 8, 2018 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Psychology, self-awareness
Empathy is one of the most popular topics brought up for discussion by my executive coaching clients. It’s not surprising because empathy is one the most important instrument in a leader’s toolbox. Effective leaders make it a priority to take care of their people. In...
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