The Sobering Reality of Not Being Able to Defend Yourself When You Need It

There always seems to be enough time to learn selfenough time? What about those instructional DVD's
defense.that you wanted to order, but didn't?
You weren't attacked today, so its ok that you didn'tYou may have told someone that you wanted to
learn to defend yourself yesterday. Today is almostlearn karate, but just didn't have the time to devote
over anyway and you probably won't be attackedto training, but now that you are experiencing more
tomorrow, so its ok, to have done nothing today,fear for your life than ever before, you don't want
too. Of course, you know that you won't always beto "know karate" anymore, you just want to know
so lucky, so you've made the decision to learn tohow to destroy the guy standing in front of you and
fight "someday," but it doesn't have to be today.your wife, who is also in danger because of your
Unless you walk home from a restaurant with yourprocrastination.
wife tomorrow night, enjoying your time away fromYou know that you could have done it, too. You
the office and enjoying life when you turn a cornercould have prepared yourself for exactly such a
and some thug suddenly appears, holding the point ofsituation like the one you are in now, without
a knife in your face!spending a huge amount of time or money. A
Now you simultaneously realize that you've waitedcut-to-the-chase system for thumping and dumping a
too long to prepare yourself for this situation andhuman predator like the one who seems to be
that its too late to do anything about it!deciding at this very moment whether or not to
Its like an old army buddy of mine told me that hespare you life.
was never so sober in his entire life as he was whenSuch systems do exist, you've researched them
he was pulled over for drunken driving. It was all funyourself. You just waited too long to put your
and games and he didn't know how much seriousresearch to use and start preparing yourself.
trouble he was in until he saw the flashing blue lightsMaybe you won't be attacked tomorrow, but, then
behind his car and was overwhelmed with the shockagain, maybe you will. I certainly don't wish it upon
of the trouble he was in and the fact that it was tooyou, but I do wish you would consider what would
late to do anything about it.happen if you were attacked and your first thought
Remember that seminar that you found in thewas "Why did this have to happen now, when I was
Internet that you wanted to attend, but thoughtplanning to prepare myself someday?
that you could postpone booking because you had