Securing Systems

Securing Systems

We don't have systems if we don't have security. You just can't have a functioning political, financial, transportation, food, health, or social system without security. Security creates certainty and stability...the tradeoffs people, countries, and businesses make to insure security are tremendous. We need to have things we can depend on.

Security is not something people really want to think about or focus on, much less do anything about. But sometimes there are weeks where years seem to happen and this one felt like a decade. It always takes some type of security failure to create change in how we operate, or to force us to get our stuff together. We can, and do, endure stressful lives and situations, but don't make any changes until after something we can never really predict happens. Those are the moments we all remember and remember where we were when we heard about them - 9/11, the Kennedy assassination(s), the Challenger.

We all count on an invisible and (apparently) fragile security blanket; once something breaks through it shocks us. We have our assumptions and no one likes to find out what happens when we are wrong about those. We can't be made to look ridiculous.

It's scary to think about all the risks that are out there. All the people and groups that want to harm us, with the tools to do it that were never available to anyone before. It seems easier to access guns and bullets than to walk through an airport without having to take our shoes off; how crazy is that?

Risks to our health and our wealth need to be considered in whatever we are doing ignoring it makes us nonviable for success over the long term. If something can be taken away from you in a heartbeat, how much do we actually posses it? What's the value of the legacy we are each trying to create and pass down if we can't keep it secure?

I'll be having this conversation about what we can each do to mitigate these issues on Wednesday the 24th with Rivka Tadjer at 1:30 EST - please join and get informed. And of course, if you have advice or thoughts we really want to hear them. The only way to handle these issues is to get them out in the broader conversation; not to scare one another but to keep us ahead of what's out there.


There's another webinar to attend on the 25th via Ann C. Oleson that looks informative as well.



The last thing you want is to be known for the wrong reasons -

The less areas we feel stress in the better.


It's all tied together and needs to be part of the ongoing conversation - having people on here like Trish Lindo that create the space for these productive conversations is such value (these used to get embedded to play directly here, but seems that changed - anyway go watch her talk).


Understanding our stress will help get us somewhere - follow Hiba Khaled, MD and help her out here -

Understanding where you are and where you're trying to get to is table stakes. Securing your bag is more than just taking care of your money. It's putting together the toolkit to have a meaningful, successful, impactful life on your terms. The cost of inaction, assuming things will be fine because they've always been fine is no longer acceptable. The status quo is not going to take you where you want to go.

I really truly hope you secure the bag and stay safe, stay healthy, stay wealthy.

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