Subject: This may sting a little
Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 9:57 AM
Hi
So far we’ve covered three of our Five Rules for Surviving a Violent Crime.
They are:
1) Trust Your Instincts
2) Act Immediately
3) Never Go to a Second Location
Our 4th Rule is one of those facts of life that we’re all better off by simply
accepting – it applies to business, personal growth, and relationships every bit
as much as it does to self defense.
And Rule #4 is . . . . .
Expect to Get Injured.
Mind you, I’m not saying you should seek injury, I’m saying that if you’re
assaulted, or someone’s attempting to force you into the trunk of a car or kick
your front door down or whatever and you make up your mind to fight, you’re gonna
get some boo boos. Maybe some serious ones.
Too often people don’t follow Rule #1 and Trust Their Instincts because walking
away quickly might be seen as rudeness and it hurts to have people think ill of
us. Or we don’t follow Rule #2 and Act Immediately because that might bring on
unpleasantness or worse so why don’t we just play along nicely and maybe we can
avoid injury that way. Or we go to the second location because putting up a
fight could get us beat up.
Instead of doing nothing, or agreeing to anything how about just accepting the
fact that we’re now in a bad situation and extracting ourselves from it isn’t
going to be free. It will come at a cost, just as doing business, having
relationships, setting goals and many other aspects of life aren’t easy or
painless.
People who come to my self-defense seminars often tell me they worry they might
“freeze up.” Why would they do that? Why would they become paralyzed with fear?
Because they haven’t accepted the idea of injury. They’re scared to death of it,
and are unable to take potentially life saving action.
Get over it, accept it, and do what you know you need to do.
In my upcoming DVD on self-defense, I’ll teach you a way to get yourself mentally
past the very real barrier of being frozen by fear of injury.
Take care, train like you mean it.
Rob LaPointe
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