Create a Hard Target

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Be a hard target! I quote, "A hard-target is a person who, due to their actions and/or appropriate protective measures, is able to minimize existing risks and thus most likely represents an unattractive target. Originally, these two terms come from the military and relate to protected and unprotected targets."

What does it take to be or become a hard target? Education is the starting point to becoming and creating a hard target state. If you don't know things then you won't create and maintain a hard target state for self and environment(s). Second, create a state of security and safety that is second nature through that knowledge, effort, training and ongoing awareness/practice. 

Liken the effort to set a secure and safe self and environment, hard target status, to defensive driving. After all, we know that driving can result in grave harm or even death just like being targeted for criminal activity. We know to signal when turning, drive at speeds that are prudent to existing conditions, and to put on our safety belt, etc., so why is it people resist to even recognize and acknowledge that bad things can come from bad people and happen to very good people just like you and me?

Yes, driving defensively was hard at the start but in time all of us do it in automatic mode, like instinctively if you will, and depend on that type of action-reaction to keep us safe and secure while operating a vehicle. Like driving there are many types of vehicles and people both good and bad and those defensive driving skills once learned and encoded along with daily ongoing experiences driving keep us sharp and ready while not being consciously on our minds. Self-protection against nefarious people who would use us like an old rag can also be an unconscious effort once ingrained, if you will allow that term for instructional purposes, if you take the time to learn, understand and develop those skills too!

Once you create a hard target way of life then those who would consider you as a possible target will redirect that scrutiny toward ... wait for it ... a soft/softer target. All of us, every single human including the criminal/predator are all possible targets, just think about that for a moment. 

Drive defensively; Live life defensively too! Detect, diffuse/avoid and defend before you become a target! Set your readiness to automatic through the process of achieving hard target status!

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