"The average Russky, son, don't take a dump without a plan."- Jack Ryan quotes using the voice of the Admiral in Red October and this is true in every facet of a successful life. If you don't have a plan then crap is going to happen and often to your detriment.
First and foremost, you have to know what you don't know about anything to make a plan for the contingencies of such events when they occur. Lets take into consideration the active shooter scenario's that have made such an emotional impression on modern society. If you have not taken the time to learn all you can about active shooter situations then you can't develop a plan in case you, or worse a family member, encounter an active shooter.
Do the research on everything and every situation imaginable as to self-protection be it active shooter, an armed robbery or an attempt to move you into an aggressive state of mind then figure out the best ways to handle such situations and then create your plan. It must be general enough that it remains flexible so you can adjust your thinking and actions according to the situation that arises in that moment.
You also have to make sure you understand repercussions if, for this example, you are involved in an active shooter situation. For instance, did you know:
1. a person involved once was shot five times in the head and survived, not only survived but remained active and responsive even after the event to talk to first responders.
2. a person in combat was shot twenty-seven times and kept functioning taking out some of his attackers then taking himself to the medical facility to survive and come home to family and friends.
These two incidents have one very important detail in common, they all had a plan. The practiced and trained the plan. They used visual imagery to envision, fundamentally, how they would act, survival mind-state and mind-set, in a variety of situations. They both trained and practiced how those plans would play out in various creative situations.
Did you know that “most gunshot woulds” are survivable. Mostly because of one’s mind-set and mind-state before, especially during, and after such incidents. Most survivors are found to have a positive survivor mind-set and in most cases a plan if they were involved in dangerous and violent situations.
This is where I refer to being a military person. In such professions, military in my case, as police, firemen, first responders of all types who deal with aggression and violence in a variety of forms are exposed to the training that builds a mind-state with a survivor attitude.
Playing sports like football; learning a martial discipline; dealing with professions that deal with aggression and violence of people to people and other such challenging jobs, training and practices all develop this kind of mind-state where you act and you survive. These things that expose your body, mind, and spirit to pain, exhaustion, and other factors you will encounter if you face-off against dangerous situations or violent people.
These and other things similar that take reality and play it out in a training, practice and play environment are those things that will train the mind toward a survival mind-set and mind-state. It is that mind state that will take you through the pain, the damage, the blood, the exhaustion and the mind-numbing types of aggression and violence not encountered on most of our lives to allow you to fight through it all, to fight the predatorial aggressive violence and to survive both physically and mentally with a can-do spirit confidence and understanding of a survivor.
Think ahead now, plan for the possibilities that seem more prominent in modern society and then practice the plan knowing that to not do this you open yourself to the six P’s, “Piss Poor Planning Promotes Poor Performance.” Let’s all take the British Army’s adage of, “Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance!”
Plan properly through research, study and understanding what you know, what you don’t know and by discovering what it is you don’t know you don’t know.
Prepare yourself and family with a proper plan, visual imagery of actions to situations that vary and hands-on training when out and about by looking for triggers and ways to escape and evade, etc.
Prevent poor performance through training, practice, visual imagery and awareness, etc., to avoid danger, damage and even death.
You have the tools, you have the attitude and you have the ability so “make it so!”
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