Time for a reality check

Want to be safer?

Examine your personal circumstances:

· age

· gender

· size

· your emotional stability

· lifestyle

· your values

· employment

· your home

· your habits

· friends

· relatives

· pets

· possessions

· your sense of awareness or your lack of it

Be honest with yourself.

What are the possible threats that you honestly face:

· burglary/ robbery/ mugging

· car jacking

· rape

· kidnapping

· bar brawl

· being bullied

· physical or emotional abuse

· molestation

· date rape

Only after a good introspection can you make a good plan for preparation. You can implement strategies that will reduce the chances of anything bad happening

Prepare for what is most likely to happen to you but don’t forget the unlikely events that might be brought upon by Murphy

Also this “introspection” will give you clues on where you are, what improvements or changes you need to make in your life

“The only absolute control and power you have is over yourself and what you do. The best way to exercise that power is to not put yourself in high risks situations.”

-Marc MacYoung

Falling down

Learning to fall is a great self defense tool. If you get injured or knocked out during a fall, you have just become a much easier target.

Learn to fall properly and get back up quickly

Falling is the second leading cause of accidental death in this country. Maybe you should take a hint and prevent this from ever happening to you. This goes beyond self defense into self preservation.

Especially living through winter. Slipping on ice is an easy thing to happen. Be prepared.

Statistics for people over 70 that fall and break a hip are not great.

If you learn to fall at a younger age, the odds will be that when you get older, you will be able to take a proper fall and absorb the shock without breaking your hip.

Don't wait, learn today!!!

Hve you used yours today??

Don't trap yourself

The Best way to get out of a bad situation is to NOT get into one!!!!

Be all that you were intended to be

5 Self-Defense Books for Women (Who Want to Lose a Fight)

Everything you want to know about what NOT to do in "self defense"

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-self-defense-books-women-who-want-to-lose-fight/

Responsibility or response ability

Now here’s a word that is either misused or unused nowadays. The “blame game” is unfortunately what is promoted in our society. Everyone seems to be very good at pointing fingers, at handing over the responsibility.

“If he had not done …(fill in the blanks)... I would have not reacted like……(fill in the blanks).....”….. “Did you hear what he called me? I had no choice, it was all his fault”…. “It’s not my fault if I am out of shape, they gave me such long hours at work, I have no time to workout”….. “I was attacked for no reason whatsoever, I have every right to get dressed like this and walk on Hennepin Ave at 2:00 am”….. “It’s not my fault if I eat all that junk food. All those commercials make me hungry for it I can’t resist.”

I am sure I have lost a few people already. Being accountable for one’s action is not always fun, it’s not always glamorous and it’s not always a feel good moment. But if you are looking for true empowerment, you can’t find anything better than accepting the responsibility for your decisions. This is really the only way to be in total control of your life. If someone else is responsible for everything happening to you, then that someone else is also controlling you. Take charge!!!

Let’s pull out our dictionary for a minute and check out a few definitions:
Responsibility or response ability
• Responsibility: to be able to make a moral or rational decision on one’s own and therefore answerable for one’s behavior.
• Response: reaction to a specific stimuli
• Reaction: the way in which things performs or functions
• Perform: to begin or carry through completion in accordance with the requirements
• Requirement: Something that is obligatory; a necessity
• Ability: natural or acquired skill or talent

So the definition of response ability would be: a natural or acquired skill or talent to react to specific stimuli and to be able to carry through completion in accordance with what is needed.
This means you are able to properly analyze the situation and to respond to the best of your abilities until the said situation is handled.
Does this mean that you will in anyway blame everyone else for the situation you find yourself into? Or does this mean that you will use whatever situation you find yourself into as an excuse for a poor choice in behavior?
NOPE!!!!!
Let’s get in charge of our lives. Quit passing the reigns over to others.