Your Personal Possessions
Your 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!
Your Mobile Phone
Have your mobile telephone security marked with your office address, it might not stop your mobile being stolen but if it does get recovered at a later date it will help the police to know where it came from and perhaps break up a bigger gang who are selling these telephones off and are actually “targeting” mobile phone users.
Do you know your IMEI number and what it is and does?
It’s the long number underneath your battery and if you call your service provider they’ll be able to disable your SIM card and prevent that mobile from being used.
Have it on silent if you are in a secluded area and be especially wary when coming out of the underground as this is where most mobiles are stolen from as they tend to “bleep” when you come out and get a signal.
Try not to walk around texting with your head down or crossing a busy road.
If you do need to text, stand with your back against a wall, or at least pay attention to your surroundings without being oblivious to everyone and everything.
It’s when you’re not paying attention that incidents can and do happen.
4 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do
There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a lifesaver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:
- The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112
- Have you locked your keys in the car?
- Hidden Battery Power
- How to disable a stolen mobile phone?
If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there’s an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialled even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.
If your car has a remote keyless entry this may come in handy someday and is a good reason to own a cell phone:
If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their mobile phone from your cell phone.
Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button on your key fob, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you.
Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away and if you can reach someone who has the other ‘remote’ for your car, you can unlock the doors or the boot.
Imagine your mobile battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370# your mobile will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery.
This reserve will get charged when you charge your mobile next time.
To check your Mobile phone’s serial number, key in the following digits on your phone:
* # 0 6 #
A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. If your phone gets stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code.
They’ll then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won’t get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can’t use/sell it either.
If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
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