Memorize one phone number
Remember how we all learned our home phone number as kids? Today, I couldn’t call my own mother without looking her number up on my phone.
Choose one person you could call in an emergency who is NOT likely to be with you. Memorize their number.
How to do it:
Pick a person you’d use your “one phone call” to contact, or that you could call from a hospital room after a serious car accident. This should be someone who is NOT likely to be with you. Someone who doesn’t live near you, but would stop what they’re doing to take action is good.
Ask that person if they’re willing to be a point of contact. Give them other key information they’ll need: where your documents are stored, who can access them, key phone numbers (lawyer, doctor, family.) The ONLY job this person has is to answer the phone and activate appropriate elements of your network. Offer to do the same for them.
Memorize their number until you’re certain you can recite it under duress. Check your memory by calling them in a week, then in a month, without looking.
