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Get Mentally Tough With LaRae Quy

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Wes Schaeffer
April 21, 2021

The FBI made her tough. She’ll make you succeed.

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  • Former counterintelligence FBI agent (24 years in espionage and undercover)

  • Grew up in Wyoming on a cattle ranch “where fast food is hitting a deer at 60 mph!”

  • Founder of the Mental Toughness Center

  • Trainer

  • Author

  • Was gritty when the FBI interviewed her

  • Fidelity. Bravery. Integrity.

  • Worked with the CIA

  • Got an advanced degree in spiritual direction

  • The FBI taught her to dig down, to peel the layers back

  • We’ve had it so easy in our nation and people are not tough

Most good things are hard.”

  • Change your mindset to change your behavior to change your outcome

  • More of an understanding from the humble leaders that we don’t have all the answers

  • Take control of your life instead of just witnessing

  • It’s not just bulldozing your way through obstacles

  • It’s a curiosity

  • Men and women have similar challenges

  • We must fight for what we want

  • She “ran over them with competence” if they got in her way

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  • “The FBI was hard on anyone who was weak!”

  • Push-ups came difficult to her so he had to work on it

  • Don’t try to make the road easy. Prepare them.

  • Positive thinking is a cornerstone of mental toughness

  • On her first day of class at the FBI Academy

  • We need to develop and cultivate five positive thoughts for each negative thought

  • Marries neuroscience with social psychology

  • Our brain is wired to be negative to keep us safe so it looks for the bad things that can be a threat to our safety

  • Good news is like Teflon while bad news is like Velcro

  • Positive thinkers are not optimists. They think they will prevail despite their circumstances not changing for the better.

  • Optimists think their circumstances will change for the better.

  • Life is not always fair

  • Adapt

  • This has to come from within

  • Do the hard work

  • We live in a shallow world

  • Most of us are living someone else’s values

  • Know what your values are

  • If something is important to you, you’ll find the grit

  • Believe in what you’re doing

  • “Follow your passion” is so much about you. Ugh! Look at your purpose to find what you can contribute to the world.

  • You’re not your own god.

  • Someone besides you matters!

  • Her first arrest she was with her training agent and had a SWAT team with a plan to get this guy at a red light

  • They hit a series of green lights and they lost the SWAT team!

  • Her trainer pulled up next to the bad guy and told LaRae “It has to be you.”

  • How do we get to the truth?

  • How aligned are you with what you’re selling?

  • Meet the people where they are.

  • Don’t allow your sales agenda to bubble up to the surface and dominate.

  • Be true to who you are

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