Imitate Professional Body Guards When Walking

 

One of the common faults of security guards doing a patrol – or for that matter -- anybody -- walking through a potentially dangerous area is to stay aware only of things immediately in front of you.

All too often you security officers start out on a patrol – so intent on just covering the ground they have to cover that they see practically nothing around them. They are just like those wind up or battery powered toys that you wind up or turn on then watch them buzz around the floor. They fail to monitor the area around them and have little or no warning of somebody preparing to attack them or sneak by them into or out of the site they are trying to protect.

Speaking about the failures of some VIP protection officers or bodyguards in the Eye Spy magazine, issue 30, 2004/2005 talking about pseudo VIP escorts, "Almost invariably ...everyone is looking in the direction they are walking." He adds, "If you are not looking, [360 degrees around you] it follows that you will not see – and if you don't see a threat then you cannot respond to it."

And this is true of other security people like guards out patrolling through the interior of buildings, or the outside building and property perimeters. All to often they do cover the area they are supposed to be protecting but see very little around them – either because they are focussing only on things directly in front of them or if they are looking around a bit while they might see things they do not really notice -- often because they are wearing headphones --potential threats to themselves or their property and people they are trying to protect. And that can be a very dangerous or at the very least counter-productive habit.

As Shortt continues: "Observation is not just about looking, it is about seeing and noticing. That means recognising the opportunities afforded to a would be attacker, and about negating or reducing those opportunities."

As he says, the next time you see truly professionals bodyguards escorting some prominent government or business person on television notice how his or her security escorts are looking around 360 degrees, often focussing their attention for a few minutes on possible security threats.

Another ways for security professionals patrolling property or a building ( or people just out for a walk in a quiet or deserted area) is to find a slightly secluded area where they can stand and look back at where they just came from as well as around them and where they intend to go next, using not only their visual but also other senses to detect possible threats as well.

Then they will be able to take effective action – a critical part of professional as well as personal protection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Always Get A Second Opinion

 

Marketing superstar, publisher, and editor Clayton Makepeace indirectly reminded me of an important precaution you should take your physician or surgeon or other health care practitioner warns you of the need to submit to some cancer therapy or other treatment.

In one of his e-books he describes how in a health promotion he once wrote that, "Some surgeons are so greedy, they'll cut a hole right through you -- just to get at your wallet."

While he admitted that this was a little bit of hyperbole on his part he did warn that some operations such as and mastectomies are later found to out to have been unnecessary. And this type of thing, as well as other blunders by surgeons, physicians, and other allopathic and complementary care health care practitioners happens far too often.

Some of these things have included these misdiagnoses of the causes of symptoms, as well as making surgical mistakes, or leaving part of their surgical equipment or other debris in the body of patient after sewing them back up – or making errors in prescribing medication, or providing therapy for health problems.

Sometimes these things happen because the health care practitioners has severed time restrictions on the time he or she can devote to any one patient by government or private health care plans which prevents them from tasking enough time with patients make an accurate diagnoses and treatment plans. Sometimes it happens because of greed on the part of the health care practitioner. Sometimes it happens because of incompetence or negligence on the part of the practitioner

You can do much to protect yourself from this type of thing by building good communication between yourself and your health care practitioner. This of course will mean taking the time to learn more about your health so you can have intelligent discussions about possible treatment options with your health care provider.

You should also seek second or even third opinions from both allopathic and complementary health care providers before plunging ahead into operations or treatment programs blindly.

 

Good surgeons and physicians, truly concerned about your health and your rights – and that includes the majority of them – as well as other health care providers from the allopathic or complementary health care worlds shouldn't mind you doing this.