Being Prepared Could Save Your Life

It is always important to be prepared. Being prepared can not only save your life, it can help you completely avoid a dangerous situation from before it even starts.

One of the best examples of this is riding a bicycle when it is dark outside. The easiest way to stay safe when riding a bicycle at night is to wear reflective leg bands, reflective armbands, and reflective belts. Although it isn't exactly a fashionable look, you can also wear reflective backpacks and reflective vests. The reason you wants to be reflective is that you need drivers to see you in order to avoid you.

It is important for the drivers of cars to take similar precautions, too. If you get in a crash, run out of gas, or just get a flat tire, you need to have a plan. Also remember that having to get out of your car on the side of the road to fix a flat tire with other cars zipping by can be extremely dangerous as well. Emergency lights for vehicles are nice to have in any of these situations as they help you get noticed by others more easily. Just keep the lights and reflectors in the trunk of your car.

There are a lot of emergency situations that can come up every day. Whether it be natural disasters, car problems, bicycle problems, getting lost while camping, or any of the other hundreds of things it could be. The most important thing to do in any of these situations is to get somebody's attention. That is why the best thing you can do is buy things like emergency lights for vehicles and reflectors.

It isn't a situation you want to ever get in, or even think about. The problem is that things happen to thousands of people every day, it can't be avoided, so you have to instead prepare for them. Taking these simple precautions can save your life, and even if they don't, they will at the very least help you feel safe. All of the things that I mentioned in this article, the emergency lights for vehicles, the reflective armbands, the reflective leg bands, the reflective backpacks, the reflective belts, and the reflective vests can all be found and purchased online or in a general department store.

Once you have these things, you can just forget about them until you need them. Remember the old saying "Better safe than sorry." It's old, simple, and used a lot, but it is very true.

I was in nursing school, and was working nights and weekends in a local pediatrician's office and doing some freelance graphics. I dropped out of nursing school, and with Eli's encouragement, began to work on starting a small business from our reflector program. We expanded our line of products and opened as an LLC. We named it Bright Ideas USA LLC (Get it?). We opened our website at that point. Several years ago, we renamed our site DontGetHit.com.

I put full energy into Bright Ideas, with our main goal always being to help more and more people be safely seen at night. We do this by constantly expanding our product line with high quality products that you can rely on for visibility and durability at an affordable price.

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Your Sports Technique - Tired of Being Second Best?

Goal Setting is important to find out where you are and where you want to be. Set goals for preseason, in season, and post season. Check on them daily to make sure you're on target.

Once you define your goals, check your inventory to make sure you have the proper equipment. Do you have enough poles, nets, balls? Do you have the proper car for competition? etc.

Now that you have your goals and equipment in order, it's time to set up your practice schedule. Some of the items your schedule should include are: what time of day do you want to practice? how many times per day? for how long? and what part of your game plan do you want to work on? Will your practice schedule be individual, group or team? Set your schedule and stick to it.

Once your practice schedule is set, determine what drills you'll work on during each practice. Break your practice schedule into time blocks to determine how long you'll spend on each drill. Also, determine what personnel will be involved.

To avoid injuries, all practice sessions should begin with warm up exercises and end with cool down exercises.

Another important factor to advance is your physical shape and endurance. So along with your sports practice schedule, you need to plan a personal training workout schedule which includes the following:

• weight lifting
• physical and respiratory endurance and
• flexibility.

Mental toughness is also important. Spend some time reading literature, listening to cds, or watching videos on how to prepare for mental toughness. Every sport requires that psychological edge over a competitor.

Finally, keep a proper diet. Look for a good book or video on proper diet or see a professional to help you with this area. Do you need vitamins, nutritional supplements, nutritional shakes, etc? Again, setting a weekly or monthly menu ahead of time will make things easier.

The better you execute your sports technique and the better shape you are in physically, mentally, and endurance wise the better your chances of being the best in your sport.

As a review, remember that when you're setting your goals, include proper equipment, practice schedules, drills, warm up and cool down exercises, strength-flexibility-and endurance (both physical and respiratory) training, mental toughness sessions, diet, nutrition and vitamins.

So stay focused on your goals, work hard, make sure you have the most up to date products, and see your sports technique and sports ranking accelerate to the top.

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