Articles and Weekly Tips
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This week’s security tip is summed up by the phrase two is one, one is none. The idea here is that for things that matter – items that are critical to your success or failure – you should always have…
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3 Ways Your Health Affects Your Personal Security
Why is physical health important in personal security? Our health is important. I think we all recognize that as a factual piece of information, but too often only in the abstract sense. When it comes to personal security, your physical…
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Tip of the Week #6 – Be the last one in
This week’s security tip is to be the last one to enter your personal vehicle – specifically as the driver. When you are the driver you carry a certain level of responsibility for your passengers. Whether these are children, siblings,…
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Empower Yourself: Target Hardening Strategies for Everyday Security
What is Target Hardening? Target hardening is a means of crime prevention. Any criminal, whether opportunistic or strategic, is always going to be evaluating their victims on a risk versus reward scale. They want the highest reward possible with the…
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Tip of the Week #5 – Carry a First Aid Kit
Do you carry a first aid kit? Have you ever been to the park with your kids and one of them scraps their knee or gets a splinter? How about on a car trip and someone gets a nosebleed? Or…
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5 Free Ways to Improve Your Personal Security
There are lots of ways to improve your personal security and safety, but many of the suggestions found online require investing a lot of money and time. Those items have their place, but the focus of this article is what…
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Tip of the Week #4 – Pay more attention
Pause and Look Around Whenever you leave one location and enter another it is worth taking a moment to pause and look around. This gives your mind and body a moment to adjust to new stimuli, and also allows you…
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What Is The Cooper Color Code? Master Your Mental Awareness
Background The Cooper Color Code is an excellent model known in military and security circles that creates a standard around increasing levels of mental alertness – or situational awareness. Similar to other models that measure danger or threat levels this…
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Tip of the Week #3 – Never run it ’til empty
Have you ever found yourself on the way somewhere, perhaps running a little late, and you realize your gas tank is about to hit ‘E’? Anyone else get annoyed at having to take time out of a busy day to…
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Kit Breakdown – My Pocket Carry
I thought it might be helpful to do some posts breaking down my usual EDC (Every Day Carry). I’ll include a photo of what I carry, a description and explanation, and links to get you started on finding your own.…
