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
Fear of Pain
There’s always a way to turn shit into sugar—if you look for it. It won’t happen if you sit around and feel sorry for yourself. Everyone has different reasons to explain their negative reactions. Your job is to look deeper into your own life to help you build a strong mind. The answers lie within you so excavate the significance of your own stories and experiences.
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
How To Fool People And Look More Confident
One of the first things I learned as an FBI agent was that the public had expectations when I walked through the door. They expected a confident, polished, and competent agent to listen to their concerns. Their first impression was the critical metric by which they...
This Is The Reason Most People Get Stuck In Mediocrity
The reason most people get stuck in mediocrity is because they refuse to fail. The reason people refuse to fail is because they associate failure with defeat.
5 Reasons You Need To Dump Your Loser Friends
Most of us have loser friends, toxic people who disrupt our world as soon as they come onto the scene.
5 Surprising Reasons You Need To Listen To Your Anger
The real problem isn’t that we experience anger. The real problem rears its ugly head when we’re taught to suppress or avoid anger at all cost.
Here Are The Best Ways To Develop Self Awareness
Self awareness invites you to develop a straightforward and honest understanding of what makes you tick so you can control negative behavior.
4 Things You Need To Know If You Want To Be Successful In Life
If you want to be successful in life, however, it takes more than intellect. It takes lots of self-awareness mixed in with a generous helping of spunk and grit.
This Is The Best Way You Can Become An Expert
To become an expert, it takes more than hard work. It requires that you work toward peak performance.
The Best Advice On How To Detect Lack Of Integrity In People
The best way to detect lack of integrity in others is to listen to what they say and watch what they do.
How To Be An Awesome Perfectionist
To be an awesome perfectionist, you need to balance the pursuit of perfect in all things with the need to excel in the fewer, more important things.
This Is How You Can Tackle Big Scary Goals
If you take too much time to contemplate the huge distance between where you are now and where you want to end up, there’s a risk you’ll never tackle big scary goals
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.
