A comprehensive, life-saving handbook on how to be cognizant of your surroundings, evaluate threats, and trust your intuition in unfamiliar and unnerving situations.

In THE POWER OF AWARENESS, special operations veteran Dan Schilling shares how to identify and avoid threats just like the pros. Told with wit and wisdom, this empowering guide uses harrowing and informative stories from Dan’s own renowned career and those of other experts to outline six easily implemented tenets you can apply anywhere to improve your personal safety:

• Be Situationally Aware

• Trust and Use Your Intuition

• Determine If You Have a Problem

• Develop a Plan

• Act Decisively

• Regroup and Recover

The POWER OF AWARENESS incorporates valuable exercises to understand how situational awareness works in real life, how to better listen to your intuition and, when confronted by a criminal, how to take action with confidence—so you can avoid or evade threats before it’s too late.

It also includes helpful tools on how to secure your home or hotel room, safely use public transportation, plan international travel, and reduce your criminal target appeal and exposure in addition to how to escape an active shooter situation. As a bonus, you’ll even learn how to survive a date without getting murdered.

By the last page you’ll know that your own power of awareness can save your life.