In order to not overwhelm you with one huge list, I have split these tips into two so you can fully digest them and hopefully implement as many of them as possible as soon as possible. Because home safety is not the only thing you need to think about, I also recommend that every person also learn how to fight.

There isn’t anyone who won’t benefit greatly from learning self defense, or learning martial arts techniques for fighting, or developing a home safety plan. In this post, I am going to give you a short and sweet list of tips to increase and maintain safety at home.

I believe that everyone can benefit if they learn self defense. If you are serious about your safety and your training, then there can be an overall growth process that takes place. You can study martial arts self defense, or you can learn self defense through a combat course or even through my DVD program;

When you study and learn martial arts moves; or make it through a tough combat training course, the last thing on your mind is that you may find yourself face to face with a bad guy on four legs.

For anyone who has studied any of the martial arts styles at any point in their life, the Karate Creed may be something you have heard before. In keeping with the tone of my last post, I am posting the Karate Creed here today.

I have been discussing the benefits of martial arts lately; and this post is going in the same direction. For whatever reason, I feel compelled to promote peace and harmony.

Getting stuck on the side of the road is not only inconvenient; it can be scary. Women, especially, should take extra precautions with their vehicles and educate themselves about road safety.

Put best, if every person on earth lived with more respect (for themselves, for others, for the earth) then we would have no violence; no wars; quite likely even no poverty.

Sun Tzu said “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

In keeping safe at home and on the go, there are more ways than one to go about it. Of course, as much as I recommend using any tool that is legally at your disposal, I believe that there is always a need for self defense training.