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How To Think On Your Feet When Under Pressure

How To Think On Your Feet When Under Pressure

by Larae Quy | Aug 5, 2019 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

FBI firearms training pushed new agents to think on their feet when under pressure. I have vivid memories of one exercise where I walked down an abandoned ally. Observers watched from a platform above and behind me, so they could critique my every decision, my every...
This Is The Reason Most People Get Stuck In Mediocrity

This Is The Reason Most People Get Stuck In Mediocrity

by Larae Quy | May 13, 2019 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

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. Their fear of defeat paralyzes them to the point that they won’t move forward. People are not finished when...
5 Reasons You Need To Dump Your Loser Friends

5 Reasons You Need To Dump Your Loser Friends

by Larae Quy | May 6, 2019 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness, Uncategorized

High school was not easy for me. I never cared for the teenage wasteland parties. An exciting Friday night in my little Wyoming town was to drag main and turn up the volume on our car radios. Girls got married and guys got drunk. I wanted to be somewhere else. I...
5 Easy Ways You Can Change The Way You Look At Your Life

5 Easy Ways You Can Change The Way You Look At Your Life

by Larae Quy | Dec 17, 2018 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

The word “can’t” is probably the only four-letter word I never heard in my 24 years as an FBI agent. I learned early in my career that negativity would impair my ability to analyze a tough case that looked impossible to crack. Once you allow a negative thought to take...
5 Reasons Successful People Need Grit

5 Reasons Successful People Need Grit

by Larae Quy | Nov 5, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

I’m not going to lie to you and pretend that I loved my 4 months at the FBI Academy at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, VA. The purpose of the Academy was multi-fold, but the bottom line was to produce successful people who had the grit to confront obstacles in both...
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