As a youngster I’m betting you’re Mum and Dad probably told you a million times about carrying all your valuables in your handbag or in one place.
I know it’s very difficult and probably a tad inconvenient not to carry everything in one place but it really does make sense to at least try and distribute valuables more evenly about your person.
The amount of workshops that I have given and the regretful comments that people have made because they just didn’t follow this simple rule.
It also never fails to amaze me how many of the ladies I see and meet in beautifully tailored and fitted suits and yet they don’t seem to have a single usable pocket which makes it even more difficult.
Do try to distribute your goods about you, remember, if your handbag gets snatched your entire life is literally in there.
Purse, credit cards, keys to your home, probably mobile telephone, which is then a “double whammy” because you’re now unable to make any calls and chances are you have no change because it’s all in your handbag as well.
Worse still, if you do keep everything in your handbag what’s to stop your assailant rushing straight around to your home because chances are that you’ll have something in there with your address (like a driving licence) and ransacking your home as well, “triple whammy”.
Then perhaps finding your car keys and taking that as well “quadruple whammy”.
Find a way to distribute your belongings it makes sense and finally if you do find yourself confronted and there is no way out don’t be hero, simply hand over your bag immediately using strong body language and disengage from the situation, brushing forcefully past your assailant if necessary.
Goods can always be replaced, you can’t!
Best wishes,
Garth Delikan
The Lifestyle Guy – Personal Empowerment Coach
