Copyright (c) 2009 Dr Mark Yates
This top 5 personal security tips article highlights 5 strategies of observation, body language, self protection, access control and physical security used by special forces and professional bodyguards world-wide which can be incorporated into your everyday personal protection and safety plan. These security tips will benefit individual male and females and their children. They are also useful for any one running a business employing staff.
To understand the concept of personal security is to live your life free from most of the daily security concerns that many people have to contend with. The highest percentage of people amble through their lives in what security experts call Condition White. My top 5 personal security tips should elevate you through the security colour code system and place you in a position to minimise the security risks to you, your family and your business partners and associates.
Top 5 personal security tips #1- Observation.
The very best security specialists are professionally trained bodyguards. I’m not talking about muscle bound knuckle draggers who eke out a living ensuring the safety of night club revellers. I’m talking about professional bodyguards who have been highly trained in close protection skills specifically designed to protect high income generating VIP’s.
I have been training professional close protection officers internationally for close to 20 years. The very first lesson I deliver, is in observation skills, followed by further specialised classes in observation. Whether we like to admit it or not, human beings are predators. Predators by definition have great observation skills. As the human race has evolved from club wielding cavemen into a generally more peaceful existence, most human beings have never really utilised their observation skills beyond normal day to day usage.
Developing and maintaining good observation skills is key to improving your personal security. Once you learn to observe what is happening around you, you will be able to implement suitable counter measures to avoid dangerous security risks.
Top 5 personal security tips #2- Body Language
International security and intelligence forces have been training their covert operatives for many years in the science of body language. Unlike most sciences, body language is still considered unconventional in many academic circles. From a physical protection perspective understanding body language is akin to having a get out of jail card. When utilised with advanced observation skills recognising key aspects of a potential attacker’s body language can give you a definite edge in any dangerous encounter. There are many books and training films available on body language.
Top 5 personal security tips #3- Self Protection
As descendents of dinosaur hunting predators we all have a self protection gene buried somewhere deep inside us. Our brain and body are finely tuned to elements of danger. The problem is most of us fail to realise we posses this very valuable attribute. Self protection can be explained by the mention of the phrase gut feeling. Whenever you meet someone who you feel uncomfortable being close to, you would mention to a friend that you had a gut feeling about that person. It’s the same when you are walking in a strange area and you get a gut feeling that something isn’t quite right, so you turn around. This is your self protection ‘gut feeling’ in action. Scientists often refer to this concept as the fight or flight syndrome.
Nine times out of ten your gut feeling is right so don’t ignore this self protection personal security tip.
Top 5 personal security tips #4- Access Control
Every security expert worth their salt will inform you that the highest percentage of security problems are defeated by maintaining good access control systems. In relation to the top 5 personal security tips access control means minimising access to anyone or anything that may harm you or your loved ones. For example. You are a female who strikes up a conversation with a male co-worker. This man misreads your initial friendship and stalks you. You must immediately implement stringent access control measures. This person may not even realise he is stalking you, however stalkers crave one thing above all else, control. To gain control over you he has to have access to you. Your aim should be to implement counter stalking strategies to minimise and then eradicate his access control. In no circumstances should you continue talking to this person, in person, by telephone, text, e-mail, letters etc.
Top 5 personal security tips #5- Physical Security
I’ve trained special forces and close protection officers in 42 different countries across four continents. One thing that sets these people up above their peers in other military and security agencies is their advanced levels of confidence. The reason for this confidence which many opponents foolishly mistake for arrogance is their advanced levels of specialised training. A good percentage of this training focuses on their own physical security. Participating in any of the martial arts will increase your levels of confidence by default. A confident person who has participated in physical security training will often present as a hard target to would be attackers. Most attackers are cowards who seek softer targets.
Although every security expert will inform you there is no such concept as 100% security, utilising my top 5 personal security tips will increase your personal security awareness and reduce the likelihood of you being targeted for attack.
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Too depressed to draw, depressed casue cant draw…help please?
I used to be one of the best artist of my grade and was really ambitious. However, this time last year i went through a lot of drama over an x bf and became really depressed. i slowed down drawing, and eventually stopped drawing for months. Then i became happy again, but because i had stopped drawing for so long i wasnt able to as well as i used to = ( plus, i think stress from my parents also added to depression, but mostly seemed to not be able to draw because i wasnt able to draw @_@
i want to be able to draw again like i used to so badly. not to be as good, but at least be able to draw for fun again and not hate everything i make. But i just cant make myself do so.
Does anyone have any sujestions or tips from personal experience? Personal experience of improvement would be lovely, casue out of 3 people with similar problem none improved -_-; so hope would be nice…
please dont answer 'just draw more often' casue its really not that simple….
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then you get into the cycle of being avoidant and shy. Sometimes not saying anything is the best thing to say but deep down inside you know you’d rather have a friend who’s got your back
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i hate popular girls at school that will ONLY talk to thier little “posse” and no one else, they think theyre so cool and dont even notice me…
i was hopeing he burned hes head
THAT MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD!ESPECIALYY #8 THAT ONE KILLED ME!
Here's a website that should be helpful. There is no way I can give you a full answer in one of these little answers. Good luck.
http://www.writeandpublishyourbook.com/
Thanx Dr that is intersting ! , but making friends nowdays became diffecult dont u think so people ?? !
This is common sense, but when you say it, sounds like pure Philosophy.
LOL I actually found the comments more interestting then the video. LOL
how to make friends…..huh
Yes it will improve with time and trustworthy relationships but YES you can aid that process by focusing on positive, forgetting the negative from the past and if you can trust YOURSELF you should be free-er to trust another.
You need to let go of what you have NO CONTROL over too. If someone is going to lie, cheat & hurt you they are GOING TO do it regardless of what you do or how much you love or trust them, right? That's just LIFE as unfortunate as that may sound. And I always like the saying that tell us "it is better to have loved & lost then to have never have loved at all." It is SO true and the rewards of fully giving of yourself to another person FAR out weight the pain from someone who injures our emotions or egos because of their lousy character flaws that make them lie or cheat with us.
Be the better person , take the high road, always think of and expect the best in others, see the best and don't lock off your heart because of some louse from your past…. that just doesn't promote a healthy, strong, worthwhile relationship. YOU'll find someone who is well worth all the effort one day and be GLAD you remained on the better road.
Hang in there – there ARE good, positive, honest souls out there – just keep looking and expect the best!
Larger companies will offer more opportunity for advancement but getting into personal banking now requires a college degree because so many people with degrees are available and willing to take those positions. If you work for a smaller company usually it is more stable but slower advancement.
Oh man, this happened to me. It took me over a year to get over my last block. Sometimes, you need to try allot of different tricks and some might work, but more often than not, you'll just be struck to draw something magnificent one day.
Here's a few tips that helped me through some of my biggest dry spells:
Never force yourself to draw. It's torture and unnerving. Don't try to draw a masterpiece when you're not feeling it.. Ya know? And if you start drawing something you like but after halfway finishing it, it starts turning out lousy(not like you wanted) then stash the work away until you get that feeling again.
Get back to basics. That really helps~! I realized the reason I hated everything I'd been drawing lately is because I was doing it the way I thought it was supposed to look. Not the way I was inspired to draw it.. Does that make sense at all? Once I remembered the basics, I couldn't stop sketching everything. I definitely improved. I had a renewed understanding of how everything went together.
Start by doodling the basic shapes, shading, lighting, angles. Then work back up to the more complex stuff. It's not going to be anything worth keeping, probably, but it's going to help you. Promise ^^
Set aside some time for yourself. Nothing is worse than life interfering with your passions. At least ten minutes a day to just sketch randomly.
Remember what got you started to begin with. What was the first thing that Really helped you get your creative fire started? Was there a book you read about art? An original sketch that inspired you? A comic?(I'm going to take a stab at; manga?)
Maybe reviewing some of your old work, or revisiting that old inspiration can get that feeling back.
Also, another thing I've done is a 'sketch association game'. Sometimes poets use a word association game to get their muse revived. (ex: when I say a word, you say the first thing that pops into your head) Instead, try and interpret that loosely.
You can have someone spout words to you and you draw the first thing that comes to mind; or if you're more a secluded type artist, you can look about your surroundings and let your eyes fall on an object. Use the word of that item and draw what comes to mind. Or draw what comes to mind after having seen it(like.. I'm looking at a plant. Right now, I either want to draw Robert Plant or a spinach monster.).. I guess one is more word association and the other is object association.
(someone had mentioned this already) You could try to sketch out the frustrations that might be hampering your method. Draw some literal emotional baggage, or your interpretation of artist block. It doesn't have to be good, but you'll find yourself getting really into it in no time.
Other things that help boost the inventive soul: good music, stretching, catching the first sun, swimming, singing as loudly as you possibly can, dancing while singing as loudly as you possibly can, running, mad libs, crazy hard wooden puzzles, anything that will challenge the brain without ticking you off, old poetry.
You need to get your energy up and your mind stimulated.
(It's so crazy, It just might work~! :]
Emotions~! Find something so sad, or so beautiful or so infuriating that you simply MUST take to the sketchpad.
Go out of your element. Try some different drawings: cubism, graffiti, go check out an exhibit on foreign art(or, you know, google it. it's easier ^^). Something abstract and totally different than you're used to.
Lastly, don't think about your lack of inspiration. It will just add to your frustration and be debilitating to your goal.
So, I hope I helped ^^
Good Luck~
Exactly-there’s nothing worse than people bringing up what you’d rather forget.
why am i so attracted to this Man? he looks ready and willing on that couch
start off with a joke.
Jesus Christ, I can’t believe I watched this video from the sidebar. Make it less obvious that you’re reading off a card.
Sounds good to me and it will only cost you $10.do it and do it quick.
You already answered your own question. I was immunized, my sisters were immunized, all of my freinds were immunized, my nieces and nephews were all immunized and my children were immunized. Not one has suffered any kind of reaction.
Is it "manipulation by the medical establishment" to suggest washing your hands after going to the bathroom? No, it is a simple remedy to help prevent the spread of disease, just like immunizations.
Ever heard of Polio? I have met and seen people who have suffered through that horrible disease because they were never immunized. Would you rather that disease makes a comeback and affects your children or grand-children?
Why do you advocate people taking chances with their children's lives and health?
i don’t need no damn friends. just keep yo mouf shut and you’ll be allright. that’s how gossip spread. makin friends when somebody tell somebody their personal lives, that person gets talked bou hind their back. nobody should be askin such questions. u there to work, not make friends.
i got my Arab when he was four and never touched a saddle. it's now been four years, and he bows, jumps 2 feet three inches, does endurance competitions, and basic dressage. i just spent a TON of time with him, grazing, in the round pen, feeding, cleaning his stall, in the pasture, riding, trails, etc. and now we're like one thing. most of the time when i call his name, eragon neighs or nickers and comes to me (whether that be at a walk or gallop!)
i hope you have fun with your paso fino!
ps- pasos are said to be the smartest horses in the world- along with the Arabian!
Haha! I knew there would be a video about this! Not only that but there is people watching it! Haha! But…why did I watch the video? Boy I’m retarded. Anyway, If you want to make friends, use this video when you’re around 21+ years old. At the teen age, try to make jokes and try to keep the other person happy. At elementary years, try to act like a know-it-all, haha. I grew up with tons of friends. So just be a funny/fun person!
have you ever seen a redheaded Chinese woman, YIKES, good for Beijing
Yeah, it really is actualy! Sometimes you will really want to hear about some one but the they just shut down your tries. well at least thats what happens with me anyway :/
I agree with you .
Asking someone how they felt when their fiancee died of cancer–that itself would make that person shut up like a clam.
To ask such personal questions one wold have to already be very good friends with the person
1. i dont think u should take it with no practice. remember ur spending like $45 on paper so study! if u need to take it again then take it again
2. u should study using the online sourse but mostly study using actual paper because its not like ur taking the test using a computer and i think the explanations will be better in the book
3. u only need SAT Subject Tests if u r applying 2 a college that requires them. (nd some colleges require certain subjects! yikes!)
4. at least a month if you study for like an hr every day including weekends. take practice tests a week before you take the actual thing.
5. the math is simple if you do well in ur regular math classes. the sentence completions and the critical reading are hard. if u are familiar with basic grammar the grammar part should be easy. as for the essay i heard it wasn't that hard. make sure ur essay is formated properly (introduction paragraph, 3 body paragaphs, conclusion paragraph, clear thesis). you should try examples andd see what u need to imrove on. did u take the PSAT?
6. u should only take the ACT if u r somewhat good in science. whatever u lack can be made up for in studying some kids say its easier than the SAT. check it out for yourself.
Asking questions is easy and talking is easy, coming across as being sincere is not
I wouldn't buy it. There are just far too many schemes and risks, now a-days. So be very cautious at those. Even the most basic of information can help a Predator.
Good tips and worthy of paying attention.All professionals should go through this at least for once