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
Authenticity
Authenticity requires the personal wisdom that comes when we uncover our honest feelings and emotions. It’s the idea that the way we feel inside should match our actions and how we behave on the outside. When we do, we make ourselves vulnerable; it also makes us incredibly courageous.
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 Compelling Reasons You Need To Be More Self-Aware
We need to be self-aware so we can make an honest assessments of our skills and strengths. Only then can we plan for ways to grow our strengths so we manage our weaknesses.
4 Ways To Stay Calm In The Face Of Daily Stress
Since we can’t control external events, we need to focus on the things we can control—ourselves and our responses.
5 Ways You Can Use Visualization To Achieve Top Performance
I could use visualization to achieve top performance and point to solid science to explain why it worked.
6 Simple Ways You Can Use Neuroscience To Improve Your Day
If you face busy days and tight deadlines, there are several ways neuroscience can help you to improve your day.
5 Important Life Lessons To Make You More Successful
It’s taken a while for me to understand that those same trials and tribulations created my destiny; they created person I became over the years.
5 Easy Ways You Can Change The Way You Look At Your Life
Once you allow a negative thought to take root, it can change the way you look at your life.
How You Need To Compete In An Era Of Disruption
More and more CEO’s are obsessed with the question of whether or not their companies are truly Amazon-proof. Improved collaboration is essential if they want to approach this challenge to maintain a competitive advantage in this era of disruption
How To Encourage Confidence and Control Ego
Confidence and ego are two very different things, and in the workplace these differences can make or break your career. Confidence is faith in yourself and your abilities. Ego operates out of self-interest and demands to be seen as “right” so it resists feedback and criticism.
5 Reliable Ways You Can Move Outside Your Comfort Zone
One of the dumbest things you can do in your career is stay, for years, in your comfort zone. Not only will you get bored, you’re likely to forget that no job is secure
How To Visualize Your Success In 3 Easy Ways
When we learn how to visualize success, it takes a hazy idea and turns it into a clear goal. It’s more than a quick fix—it’s solid science.
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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.
