Why Should You Learn Personal Safety?

Are you concerned for your, and your loved ones personal safety? 

In this day and age it's SMART to think about personal safety. Times have changed. It used to be that there were certain "crime plagued" places, and as long as you avoided those places you were safe. But times have changed.

Violence is no longer just about crime. It's changed in the last few years. Violence is now triggered by grievance and a sense of self-entitlement that was not there five years ago. Where once collectively we acted with restraint, now its all impulse all the time.

Just think about that woman in NY who just walked up behind an 87-year-old grandmother and vocal coach and pushed her to the ground. The woman who did the pushing was NOT a street person suffering from acute mental illness. She was from a nice town in Long Island and engaged to be married.

In the last two days, the news covered a man being shot to death by an elderly while using a leaf blower ON HIS OWN PROPERTY. Not the elderly man's property. The shooting was a culmination of grievance over perceived slights.

Then there's the guy, who rather than blow off the fact that he mistook a man for a parking lot attendant and forked over some money to him. He went inside to meet a woman on a date. At some point he realized he paid someone that wasn't working there.  BUT RATHER THAN LAUGH IT OFF OVER HOW HE BLEW IT BY ASSUMING THINGS, HE WENT OUTSIDE AND SHOT THE MAN TO DEATH.

Attacks at houses of worship, be they synagogues, churches, mosques, or other temples have risen dramatically.

Hate crimes against Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Gays, and Transgendered people have risen exponentially.

And politicians are driving this sense of grievance. So it's not going to change.

So what can you do to keep yourself and your loved ones safer?

• Situational awareness is the ability to read the environment around you, and the people within it, to help you recognize potential safety threats and AVOID them. It's the single most important element of personal safety since avoidance is always best.
• De-escalation is the ability to lessen the threat in a situation with a person who is escalating through your words and body language. It's your LAST CHANCE to prevent an attack.
• Changing the dynamics of an attack involves quickly TAKING AWAY an attacker's initial advantage that comes from a sneak attack, and putting the attacker on the defensive to create the opportunity to exit safely before the worst happens.
• Self-defense is the ability to stop a physical attack, whether from an armed or unarmed attacker, as quickly as possible BEFORE your are incapacitated or killed.

Incorporating situational awareness into your daily life is the most important step to take to keep yourself and your loved ones safe while you go about living the life you want to live. Download my FREE PDF situational awareness guide below.