Spencer Corson

Anytime you feel, like I have clients who will say, well, like, what do I do if I'm like blindfolded and handcuffed in the back of a trunk?

I'm like, well, how did you get there in the first?

It's not like you just like woke up one morning, handcuffed and blindfolded in the back of a trunk.

Like you saw the guy three blocks ahead that kind of made you feel weird.

And then he got two blocks away and you felt even more weird.

And then you noticed the van that was kind of creeping down the street from the other direction.

And then the guy got within one block and you're like, man, this just doesn't feel right.

And then you see the van getting closer and then the van is right next to you and the guy is pushing you into the back.

You're like, wow, I was right.

This wasn't right.

Three blocks away was when you should have made the decision, hey, this isn't right.

I'm just going to make a turn here and circle the block.

You know, sometimes when we're driving home, it's good to take different routes home.

And the reason I talk about that isn't because you need to employ some kind of like James Bond, Ethan Hunt, Carrie Matheson spy guy route selection to keep you from being a threat.

It's because most accidents happen within one mile of our home.

And most of those accidents hit another parked car.

Because when we are so used to doing something, we allow our subconscious to take over and we are no longer adamant about or present in the moment about the actual decisions we're making.

A flip side of that is that if you just start taking different routes home, you're going to have to be engaged.

And a byproduct of that is also that if someone just does happen to be doing surveillance on you or counter surveillance on you or does want to target your home for

you know, for a home invasion, just that variable could be the decision that basically gets them to transfer their likelihood of success to someone else.