The REAL Secret...

Everyone has challenges.  Nobody is immune to them.  Too often, we perceive challenges in life as being of a financial nature only, as for the majority of us, challenges=lack of money.  However, they could be of a relationship nature, a health issue, a crisis of faith, or a lack of trust-to name but a few.  It is at times when one is facing a challenge that they must not give in to the poison of lethargy and self-pity.  If there is one thing that I have learned from my years of martial arts training and subsequent growth in the field of reality-based personal protection training it is the value of perseverence and attitudinal conditioning.  If you want it, you can get it-but it won't be given to you.  You must know your strengths and weaknesses-if you are a negative thinker by nature, DO NOT attempt to re-wire yourself by walking around saying things like, "everything is perfect," or "I have everything I need right now." Such affirmations hinder you because while you may say them, your mind knows that it isn't true.  Result: you do not achieve what you want, and you grow disillusioned and bitter, and eventually settle for whatever you get. 
That is not to say that positive thinking is useless.  NOT AT ALL. The proper mentality is essential for anything.  Being able to find positives in any situation is the hallmark of a truly successful person.  If that person is a negative or pessimistic person by choice, they succeed by being able to harness or channel that "negativity" into productivity.  In doing so they have in essence found the positive in their situation, rather than standing in a thunderstorm saying, "it is a nice sunny perfect day."  Bull.  If something sucks, there is nothing wrong with saying so.  What is wrong is to allow that to keep you from finding a motivating factor in that suckiness to urge you to become proactive and improve your situation...which is probably why every glassy-eyed, hypnotized Oprah disciple bought the book, The Secret, read it for a few weeks, and then threw it on the heap of books from her "Book Club" collecting dust in their spare bedroom.  They would be better served reading Think and Grow Rich and The Art of War back-to-back.

In training, especially in a self defense encounter, the "freeze factor" is the biggest hurdle to overcome.  If people have time to process what is going on, many times they become docile, almost incredulous, thoughts of "this isn't happening," racing through their minds.  It is only through proper training, adressing the factors of adrenaline dump, fear response, fight-or-flight mechanisms, ansd so forth, can one quickly process a situation and act accordingly. 
If someone attacks you, through proper training in the White Collar Warrior Self Protection Skills System, your body will react based on the drills you have done, and your mind will more quickly analyze what is happening, and out of that suckiness, you will find a motivation to remove yourself from the situation...your family...your children....your whatever.  THAT is the real miracle of positive thinking.

Until next time,

Bobby

The dangers of the iPod...

While driving down a main street in my town, I always see throngs of young girls running on the bike path adjacent to the street.  Without exception, there are headphones in every one of their ears.  Now I'm not saying that these are bad in and of themselves.  I mean, hell, if I have to run (I hate it) you best believe I'm drowning my sorrows in some 80's hair band music.... but I NEVER lose focus of my surroundings.

Too often, when the earphones go in, the brain shuts off.

Not good.

The trick is to enjoy the music while remaining aware of your surroundings.

Look around on campus and everywhere you go you will see people, guys and gals, absolutley zonked in their own music-induced world, oblivious to anything around them.  All this is is a shift from focusing on one thing to another.  By developing your awareness skills to the point where you can enjoy music, sense someone next to you, text while walking and stop at the crosswalk all at the same time (it sounds like a lot but when you really think about it it's not all that complex-I mean, we listen to the radio, talk on the phone, read road signs, operate the A/C or windshield wipers, avoid potholes and watch out for other drivers and pedestrians for cryin' out loud!) then you will see just how capable you are of multi tasking when your energy is not fixated on one thing or another.

Awareness is your first line of defense - the White Collar Warrior Self Protection Skills Home Study Course is your last resort.  What happens in between is anyone's guess...

Til next time,
Study hard, be smart and keep your head on straight-I'll be back soon!

Bobby

Read this and tell me if you'd know what to do...

You cannot help but see tragic, sad and overall depressing things on the news or in the newspaper. Often times it makes you disgusted, other times it honestly doesn't quite register because you're hit with so many similar stories from all angles. Occasionally, you come across something that just shocks, revolts and outrages you all at once.
Denise Amber Lee was a mother and a wife who was abducted, raped and murdered by a man named Michael King on January 17, 2008 in Florida. What makes this case so unique is that five 9-1-1 calls were made that day, including one by Lee to police using King's cell phone. Due to incompetence and poor communication between dispatchers and police, help was unable to arrive in time. Two witnesses made calls, one who saw Lee try to escape King's car and be forced back in by King, and another who saw Lee screaming and thrashing in the backseat of King's car. Still, authorities were not abkle to sync up, and a short time later, King shot Lee in the head and buried her in a shallow grave.
This cosmic failure in the emergency response system ushered in the Denise Lee Law, which requires mandatory training and certification for dispatcher personnel.
However.....
Denise Lee is still dead. her husband Nathan lost his wife, and her children have lost a mother.


Too often in society, we live with a notion that because people are around and everything is so "high tech" that we have this safety net around us.

We believe our neighbors will always be there for us.

We believe that 911 will bail us out should we need them.

We believe that strangers will step in and help us if they see us in trouble.
For the most part, we are right.
BUT...
We cannot, CANNOT rely on any of the aforementioned as a "safety net" for our own personal safety.

I can only hope that should some sicko ever try to attack another woman, man or child, he will get a good healthy dose of "you f***ed with the wrong bull."

Do me a favor-learn from the mistakes of others-make yourself that much more self-reliant.

Check out our White Collar Warrior Self Protection Skills Home Study Course today.


Please take my words to heart-this story terrifies me.

Bobby