by Larae Quy | Jan 14, 2019 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
I didn’t characterize many of my life lessons as gifts in my younger years. Growing up on a cattle ranch lacking sophistication and social graces, I viewed those early years as full of trials and tribulations. It’s taken a while to understand that those same trials...
by Larae Quy | Sep 10, 2018 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
My parents worked hard as cattle ranchers in a remote area of Wyoming. There was no money to pay a hired hand, so my brother and I started helping out with chores at the age of six. By the age of eight, I could stack bales of hay, grease the baler, and move a hundred...
by Larae Quy | Jul 23, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Few could accuse FBI agents of being soft and fluffy, and yet emotional intelligence is at the heart of most successful FBI investigations. The ability to recognize, control, and express emotions were often the single factor that led to my success as I recruited...
by Larae Quy | Jul 9, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
The career advice we receive changes as we age. As children, we’re encouraged to dream big about the things we want to accomplish in life. We grow up and assume we’ll do what we love. As we become adults, the message starts to focus on how we can be successful....
by Larae Quy | Dec 19, 2016 | personal leadership
In the 1930’s FBI agents needed mental toughness to hunt bank robbers like John Dillinger and mobsters like Al Capone. As the world became more complex, FBI agents started working complex and sophisticated cases like terrorism, organized crime, cyber, and...
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