Mindset: The key to secure living…part 3
If you haven’t read part 1 and part 2, I enourage you
to read them first.
13. Establish priorities for all of life. Set goals for the areas you’ll be proficient or self-sufficient in. We’ve all heard it before, but it’s true. What are you priorities? In order to prepare for good times or bad, it needs to be near the top of your list. My mentor taught me that goals need to be written down. Here’s one of mine and I’m writing it down now.
-Do something each week to move one step closer to more self sufficient living.
14. Set a schedule or time line based on money and time you can invest in self-sufficiency. Don’t rush into anything! Stay practical. It bothers me that people who believe in common sense survival are labeled as extremists. Probably because too many people invest too much money and too much time going “gung ho” and neglect many other areas of their everyday life. Start small. Do one or two things per week. I started by simply buying an emergency bag. It was easy to go to the store and buy it. Then the next week I acquired a couple things to put in it and it started from there. Stay within your budget. You will be surprised how items that cost as little as $3-$4 can be used. For example, you can go to Walmart and buy those inexpensive landscaping lights normally used in your front yard. They are low cost, very portable and throw off a lot of light and it’s easy to carry several of them in a backpack or your car. You never know when those will come in handy.
15. Learn to ask the right questions in every situation. Be curious. Who’s doing what and why? [In ‘Operation Waco,’ nobody asked the right questions.]
16. Bring orderliness into your life. If you live in disorder it will pull you down, it will break your focus. Think focus versus distraction. Eliminate the distractions from your life. I’ve had to learn the hard way that even other people can be distractions and if they are “slurping” you, terminate your relationship with them. Then surround yourself with people who think like you do and who won’t take advantage of you.
17. Self-sufficiency [or survival] principles are learned on a day-to-day basis and must be practical. If it’s not practical for you, you probably won’t keep doing it. Again, let’s not be extreme. Don’t wear a tin foil hat. Think probability vs possibility. Almost anything is possible, but plan for the most likely disasters first. In a previous article I gave some examples of what is more probable, please click here to review them. Feel free to add to this list by commenting to this post. I’m begging you to have your plans made for the most probable events first. Then plan for Armageddon later, if you want to.
18. Everyday life [and especially crisis] requires ‘up-front systems’ and ‘back-up systems’ if the first line of defense or ‘up-front systems fails. EXAMPLE: My home security system is my first line of defense. My 12 gauge shotgun is my back-up!
19. Decide ahead of time before a crisis arrives, how you will react in a given situation so that you are not swayed by the circumstances, the situation, or your emotions. Have a family meeting, maybe two and discuss what the plan is if there’s an emergency, for example. Have that same meeting 2 or 3 times then practice. Shut off the power in your home for 2 hours and live off your survival tools, then turn the power back on. Can you do that without your family going into complete chaos? You better, otherwise that’s what will happen in a true emergency.
Tomorrow,we will conclude this 4 part series, but by now I hope you’ve realized the major point I’m trying to make and that modern survival is being practical. Anyone can do it and everyone should do it. If everyone had good plans on how to react in every situation, this world would be quite a bit easier to live in. We wouldn’t have so many “dependent” people living paycheck to paycheck, with no food or water in their home if disaster strikes, for example, and looking for everyone else including the government to help them.
We will also talk about what to teach your kids about becoming survival minded.
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See you tomorrow…..
Bob Mayne
www.TodaysSurvival.com
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