By Scott Bolan
Tactical Awareness is your ability to:
1. Perceive…
2. Your cognitive reaction time…
3. … and your tactical ability (skills) to deal with ANY situation that arises.
That’s great for street survival and combat, but why stop there?
How about using the same skills to Survive, Thrive, and DOMINATE every situation you find yourself in?
Then, not only would you be more effective, powerful, and dangerous… you’d also have a lot more fun!
You start by bringing the Tactical Mind into daily life and perceiving things you had been missing, in order to make more of every opportunity.
Here are 28 tactical tips for street survival and DOMINATING your situations!
1. Turn off the chatterbox of your mind.
You won’t be able to hear as well or listen to your “sixth sense” if your mind is full of chatter and noise.
2. Always Choose Power.
If you don’t choose power, a disempowering choice will be made for you by default.
You have more choices right now than you were previously aware of.
3. Begin practicing “tactical choice” in all situations.
4. Retain your center. Do not over-extend physically, financially, emotionally, or with your precious asset of time. This will give you a tactical advantage in most situations!
5. Always calibrate possible approach in any situation. Leave yourself room to maneuver.
6. Have a solid police flashlight at ready within easy reach of your driver’s seat. You may need a powerful light if your car breaks down at night, and you can use it as a club if a carjacker reaches in.
7. Always look for and remember the exits in any situation or location you go into.
8. Always choose the best tactical placement in any situation.
… seating at a restaurant that allows you to view the entrance and doesn’t allow anyone to approach you unseen.
… a hotel room a few floors up from ground level – so they can’t break in through the window, and if you have to jump in the vent of a fire, you’re not too high up.
… how and where you stand and walk – in line at the store, or anywhere outside the comfort of you home. Always position yourself for the optimum tactical position, even when speaking
to another person.
9. Bar your hotel door with a chair. Use a portable entry alarm, or a make-shift one, such as a glass that will fall if someone opens the door, to alert you to intrusion.
10. Keep a tiny pinch-flashlight on your keychain. This is great when you’re in a building and the power goes out.
11. Have a code-word and pre-set behavior pattern with your family that you’ll use if… you are attacked in public … someone breaks in to your home… there is a fire… or any other emergency.
12. Guide your children in making the right choices on their own as soon as possible.
13. Do not take the bait!
Enemies, attackers, manipulators, and jealous rivals use guilt, jargon, chit-chat, greed, anger, gossip groups, fear, slogans and rhetoric all in an attempt to cause a reaction in you, much like a boxer’s probing jab, in order to gauge your tactics and response time.
If you take the bait, you become a puppet in their strings. But when you do not take the bait – it causes a reverse effect and they become the recipient of their own attack!
14. Do not empower your attacker by responding to him emotionally.
15. Do not assign your values to others. If they appear to have your values, if they preach your values, it does not mean they actually do have them.
16. When you enter a room, practice peripheral and energetic perception by being in tune with the energies of the other people in the room without being obvious.
17. Soften your eyes and use energetic softening with keep perception… notice who sizes you up, who may be staring at your date, who is avoiding you, who else is tactically aware, who is concealing their tactical awareness, and the cultural, demographic, body type and personality specifics of each person.
18. People have an “energy” that is as noticeable as the color of their clothes and gender! Become a student of the art of people-perception… this can be great fun and you will soon become a pro at reading people as easy as reading a neon sign!
19. Your Energetic Intuition will tell you more about people than anything else! This is true “tactical awareness”
20. When attacked, target “BENT” – Balls, Ears, Nose and Throat – these are the quick and nasty instantly DEVASTATING targets. They are also YOUR vulnerable points. Protect them by keeping turned slightly to the side when talking to strangers.
21. Don’t be close enough to get surprised by a head-butt.
22. She’s beautiful, she’s new, and everyone is swarming around her like flies. Stay back and ignore her while keeping an inwardly-amused smile and she’ll come to you (this is called “reverse magnetism”)
23. “Beautiful” does not necessarily mean “intelligent” or “honorable”
24. “Famous” does not necessarily mean “intelligent” or “honorable”
25. “Common sense” does not necessarily mean “tactically optimal”
26. Dress tactically for perception and functionality, so you can blend in or stand out if you want to, and so you can move unhindered.
27. Everything is a weapon: in any environment you enter, notice what can be utilized as a makeshift weapon. You’ll be amazed!
And lastly, perhaphs most importantly….
28. Control your breathing and thinking and you control your personal power supply.
Read that one again!
Yours in Living Powerfully,
