LaRae Quy was an undercover and counterintelligence FBI agent for 24 years. She exposed foreign spies and recruited them to work for the U.S. Government. As an FBI agent, she developed the mental toughness to survive in environments of risk, uncertainty, and deception. Faced with stressful and fast-moving situations, she needed to move through barriers if she was to succeed.
Secrets of a Strong Mind Online Course
Based on real-life experiences and backed up with psychology and neuroscience, Secrets of a Strong Mind online course is 8 short modules of 5-minute videos.
It will help you to develop the mental resilience to overcome any challenge with confidence.
Are You Mentally Tough?
Mental toughness is believing you will prevail in your circumstances rather than believing your circumstances will change. It’s managing your emotions, thoughts, and behavior in ways that set you up for success in both business and life. Get your Mental Toughness Score – see where you excel and what areas need attention.
Secrets of a Strong Mind: How to Build Inner Strength to Overcome Life's Obstacles
A former FBI counter-espionage agent offers field-tested methods for readers to develop mental toughness. She provides a curated package of tools and techniques to help them realize they are capable of far more than they believe to be possible.
Mental Toughness for Women Leaders: 52 Tips To Recognize and Utilize Your Greatest Strengths
Discomfort Zones
Comfort zones can make us dumb. They shut down our brain’s learning center because we only learn when there’s uncertainty. Stability is a shut-off valve for the brain.
Why You Need Mental Toughness
Grit Under Pressure
Grit is an intrinsic desire to go beyond what you can easily accomplish with talent or skill.
Grit Under Pressure
- A deep sense of purpose because you believe your work is worth it.
- Purpose boils down to understanding how you can give your talents and skills back to the world.
- Motivation to go beyond what you can easily achieve with talent.
- Success is often where people stop on their way to being who they truly want to be.
- Conditions don’t have to be perfect to start if you pursue something that answers your “why” and is important to you.
- Great lives respond to a higher calling and purpose.
- Purpose is the linchpin of grit.
The Right Mindset
Mental toughness is not something you’re born with, it’s a mindset you can develop.
The Right Mindset
- Attitude is the difference between a mentally tough champion and a whiny wimp.
- Negative emotions make us uncomfortable but without discomfort, there is no change and no growth.
- It’s not a lack of fear that creates a strong mind; it’s how we deal with negative fear-based emotions.
- The greatest mental toughness weapon we have is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- Mental toughness requires positive thinking. Positive people know they will prevail in their circumstances rather than hope their circumstances will change.
When Life Sucks
Mental toughness gives you the ability to be comfortable with discomfort while producing inner confidence.
When Life Sucks
- Stability is a shut-off valve for the brain. You only learn when there’s uncertainty.
- Petri dishes full of new experiences will help you anticipate what it feels like to fail so you can respond and not react when the stakes are higher.
- Left in darkness, fear will grow and sabotage your efforts to move forward.
- The only difference between a rut and a coffin is their dimensions.
- Wisdom is understanding that we’re not sure we have all the right answers.
- Success won’t make you confident; confidence will make you successful.
- Shit Happens. Life is hard. Pain is inevitable. Growth is optional.
LaRae’s Recent Posts
4 Ways To Be In Control Of Your Life
You can’t predict setbacks and adversity, but this is when you need to be in control of your own emotions, thoughts, and behavior so you can move forward
4 Powerful Habits Of The Most Successful People
When we’re stressed, our ingrained habits are our “go-to” response, whether they are helpful or harmful. They tend to take over under stress.
3 Ways To Be A Better Person In The Future
We need to plan for ways to be a better person in the future. It’s imperative that we don’t succumb to self-limiting beliefs about who we think we can become and what we think we can achieve in life.
How To Think On Your Feet When Under Pressure
If we train ourselves to think on our feet, we’ve mastered an important skill. Once we master it, our responses will create immediate confidence in what what we say and do
3 Reasons Why Happiness Is Not Enough
Popular culture tells you success will make you happy and the pursue happiness is the meaning of life.
This Is How To Use Power Poses To Be Successful In Life
We can use body language to influence the way we are perceived by our audience.
How To Train Your Brain To Be More Resilient
As proof that we’ve become a society of wimps, consider this: new research confirms that when we run out of legitimate threats to face, we begin to call things that we judged to be harmless in the past now as a threat. The study was undertaken to understand how...
3 Reasons You Need More Than Success To Be Awesome
Too often, success is where we stop on our journey to the realization of our full potential. We settle for where we found success rather than pursue what is truly meaningful to us
4 Simple Ways You Can Impress Your Boss
Many times being really good at your job isn’t enough; you need to develop a game plan
3 Smart Ways You Can Gain Confidence In Yourself
I learned quickly in the FBI that success would not make me confident; instead, confidence would make me successful.
Are YOU Mentally Tough?
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Mental toughness is believing you will prevail in your circumstances rather than believing your circumstances will change. Find your Mental Toughness score - see where you excel and what areas need attention.
