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
4 Effective Ways Courageous People Can Succeed In Tough Times
Life has always been difficult and the sooner we come to terms with the simple fact that we are not too precious to fail, the better equipped we will be to land on our feet when confronted with the unknown.
How A Thicker Skin Can Give You An Advantage In Life’s Battles
Being tolerant of irritating colleagues and other people is often the first casualty of stress. The confluence of so many events in life today has produced an environment that that is both critical and sensitive
The Great Exodus: Why Now Is The Time For A Career Change
We’ve all felt our way through periods of darkness before, and we know that a sudden burst of light requires us to blink as we focus on what is before us
How A Strong Mind Can Give You The Resilience Advantage
While most of us feel the inherent need to be resilient, very few of us know how to leverage it in a way that will make a difference in our life.
4 Effective and Easy Ways To Relieve Stress At Work
Feeling stressed? Join the crowd. No matter your viewpoint on what’s going on in the world, the reality is that you have burdens a little closer to home—as parents, leaders, students, or simply as adults who need to pay bills and navigate the complexity of your...
The Most Common Well-Being Advice That Doesn’t Work
The self-help industry is a booming business. It’s made celebrities out of people with minor talent but a major understanding of how to capitalize on the problems of others. God knows from under which rock some of these people come, but their good fortune is the...
3 Ways Positive Thinking Can Empower You Right Now
As a new agent, right out of the FBI Academy, I felt as though I could conquer any roadblock or setback because I’d spent 4 months learning how to prepare to make arrests, interrogate suspects, and gather evidence. So, it was a bit of a surprise that, when I attended...
9 Easy Things That Will Help You Live Better Every Day
Chances are good that, at some point in your life, you tried to change your behavior. If you used willpower to stay focused, chances are good that you failed
How A Strong Mind Can Quickly Separate The Doers From The Dreamers
Some of our dreams are juvenile and should be left behind, while others propel us toward a life of value and meaning.
How A Strong Mind Can Help People Recover From A Mistake
Show me someone who has never made a mistake and I will show you someone who has never accomplished anything meaningful in their life
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.
