Often When You Try To Teach Someone A Lesson, You're The One Who Ends Up Getting Schooled. ​In life, few things can get you in more trouble and often hurt or killed, than your ego. Ego is undoubtedly a major cause of miscommunication, conflict and escalation to violence. How do we inoculate ourselves from this problem? Emotional intelligence is the answer. Emotional intelligence and resilience help us to understand our worth without having to push a false sense of entitlement. When we operate from a place of insecurity, every disagreement feels like a threat to our identity, forcing us to defend a fragile image rather than seeking a productive resolution. This defensive posture blinds us to the perspective of others and traps us in a cycle of reactive behavior that rarely serves our long term interests. By cultivating self awareness, we create a necessary space between our impulses and our actions, allowing us to choose composure over chaos. True strength isn't found in the ability to dominate a room or win every argument, but in the quiet confidence to let go of the need for validation. As we strengthen our internal foundation, we find that we no longer need to weaponize our opinions to feel significant. This shift transforms our interactions from battles of will into opportunities for genuine connection, ensuring that we remain the masters of our emotions rather than the victims of our own pride.

Implementing code words is a subtle yet powerful way to enhance safety within your family and business. By incorporating simple colors like blue or red into everyday sentences, you can discreetly signal a need for law enforcement or emergency assistance without alerting an aggressor. For example, asking someone to grab the blue file or telling a child to put away their red football provides a clear call to action while maintaining a calm exterior. The most effective safety plans are the ones that stay fresh in your mind so I suggest reviewing these phrases once a quarter alongside your other emergency protocols. Consistency is key to ensuring everyone knows exactly how to respond when every second counts.

The Threat is Real—and Accelerating Every 4.9 seconds, someone becomes a victim of identity theft in the United States. In 2024, over 1.1 million identity theft complaints were reported, and nearly 30% of Americans have experienced identity theft at some point in their lives. Nearly 47% of victims who contacted the Identity Theft Resource Center had been victimized more than once, making this a recurring nightmare rather than a one-time incident. Bad actors are everywhere. Thanks to the world wide web, there is no limit to attempted theft, harassment, or being taken advantage of. The digital threat landscape has become truly global. According to the World Cybercrime Index, most cybercrime originates from just six countries, with Russia, Nigeria, China, India, and Romania leading in various categories of digital crime. Nigeria remains infamous for advance-fee fraud and romance scams, while Russia hosts some of the world's most skilled ransomware operators and banking malware developers. India has become a hub for tech-support fraud and fake loan schemes, with the FBI reporting over 88,000 complaints related to tech support scams in 2023 alone. Chinese criminal networks specialize in "pig-butchering" schemes—long-term manipulations that lead to fraudulent cryptocurrency investments—while Southeast Asian scam compounds have become industrial operations, with criminals earning $3 trillion annually from scams and fraud globally, far outpacing income from the global illicit drug trade. To say nothing about exposure to the less likely but far more disruptive devious methods like stalking, targeting for tiger kidnapping (where someone holds a friend or family member hostage, requiring you to do illegal activities on their behalf), or marking a member of your family for the globally expanding human trafficking industry. That's why in this article we're going to look at the main 2 objections that I hear most often and how to maintain more privacy, specifically protecting critical information without the overwhelm.

"Speed is fine, but accuracy is final." — Wyatt Earp That old gunfighter wisdom captures exactly why I teach the Mozambique Drill to every executive protection client who comes through Grey Man Academy. Two shots to the chest, one to the head. It's not about being flashy—it's about being final. The Mozambique Drill trains you for the moment when your "A-game" still isn't stopping the threat. Here's the tactical logic: It’s good practice to always engage center mass first—the chest presents the largest target with vital organs. Under stress, when your fine motor skills diminish and threats are moving unpredictably, you need the highest probability of effective hits. Simple physics and anatomy. But what happens when those chest shots don't stop the threat fast enough? Maybe body armor is involved—increasingly common in active shooter situations. Maybe the threat is chemically enhanced or is running body armor. This is where hope becomes a liability. The head shot isn't random. I'm targeting the ocular region specifically—the area between the eyebrows and upper lip. This provides the most direct path to the medulla oblongata at the brain stem. A hit here means instant incapacitation without muscular clenching reflexes. The technical execution matters as much as the concept. Trigger reset discipline, minimal travel between shots, and rapid target transition from chest to head. My cold demonstration time of 2.37 seconds isn't my best time, and it sure isn’t showing off—it's about proving the technique works under realistic conditions. For armed professionals and responsible citizens, the Mozambique Drill isn't about tactical theater. It's about building systematic problem-solving habits when stopping a determined threat becomes absolutely necessary. Because in a real defensive encounter, speed might get you started, but accuracy—at the right target—is what gets you home. Mozambique/Failure Drill Creator: Mike Rousseau (experience), popularized by Jeff Cooper Target Setup: