When I retired early from the CIA, I had no real concept of how hard it was going to be to transition from 35 years of government service to working on my own.

Welcome, to the new blog! This week I want to introduce you to the features you’ll find on our new platform. Why the change? The emotional, mental, and physical capacity to take care of yourself and others during an emergency only comes with an intentional change in the way most of us currently live.

In the last lesson, Up Close and Personal, we talked about how to detect threats in close quarters. We’ve discussed detecting threats as early as possible to avoid them, deter them, or gain extra time to react to them.

In the last lesson, Up Close and Personal, we talked about how to detect threats in close quarters. We’ve discussed detecting threats as early as possible to avoid them, deter them, or gain extra time to react to them.

In the last blog, Hard Lessons in Situational Awareness, I described how I stood on a street corner in Kabul, Afghanistan, and paid attention to my Situational Awareness (SA)…

As we discover The Power of Prudence, we will explore each of these. Let’s begin today with a critical part of our ability to perceive: Situational Awareness.

Yep…that’s it. Before you invest time, effort, and resources into becoming safer, you absolutely must get this one and most important thing right. Why?

Every time terrorists attack at home or abroad, I get questions from family, friends, clients, and on social media about how to become safer. Some ask how to stop terrorism.