Archive for the ‘Mental Preparedness’ Category

Resolve: The Ultimate Survival Attribute

Ask yourself this question: “Do I really think I could use deadly force against someone to protect my family?” Most, (if not all reading this) quickly respond with a resounding YES! In fact, you may even have fantasized about scenarios where that might happen; usually in the context of “what would I do if…” One […]

Survival Cross Training – It’s Not Just For The Gym: 17 Skills Everyone In Your Family Should Learn

Possessing crucial skill sets are a must have when forming a survival group. Individuals bringing a variety of skills binds the group further to create a solid, well-functioning team. That said, like anything regarding preparedness, you do not want to become complacent and believe that just one person should perform a certain set of tasks. […]

The Post Disaster Security Timeline

It is very important to know, that there is a security timeline of events which will follow a disaster, and the resulting human behavior can be predictably used to your advantage in the hours, days and weeks into a disaster… The post-disaster security timeline can be split into five segments of time (the event, search-and-rescue, […]

Sustainable in the City: Community Solidarity When the SHTF

When I first began learning about the worst case scenarios associated with emergencies and disasters, I have to admit there was a part of me terrified of waves of crime and gangs attacking our home and injuring my family. I knew that when the needs of the unprepared are not met, they are more likely […]

Three Typical Reactions to Survival Scenarios

Dealing with everyday problems when SHTF meant that you have to face whole new set of situations, from how to “take shower” with few liters of water to how to use pure violence when violence was not part of your life before. As I mentioned many times people used to find all kind of solutions […]

How to Dress for OPSEC and Protect Yourself

The Gray Man doesn’t wear gray. Ok, maybe that’s not true in some cases because I have worn gray during surveillance, but hopefully you’ll get the point. Deciding what to wear for SHTF clothing to be the Gray Man is a simple concept, and it’s not just about color. You typically want to wear what […]

How to Help Kids Through Hard Times

The terrible shooting in US that put 27 people to death, mostly six and seven year old children made me write this post. There is much controversial stuff. Media outrage about gun laws instead more talk about media making people like the Aurora shooter to some kind of celebrity, that inspires other people to go […]

Survival of Women During SHTF

I spoke with first woman named Una, now 52 (so in her 30s back then) who took care of her family during that time. I asked JL to send me some questions she had on her mind and she did. If you have more women specific questions write in comments. I recorded interview and translated […]

The Philosophy of Freedom: Much More Than Demanding Government Get Out of Our Lives, You Must First Get the Tyranny Out of Your Own Heart

Do you agree with this statement? Government has no business telling us what to drink, what to eat, what kind of medicine we should take, what to smoke, what to farm, or how to run our private lives. These are all elements of individual liberty or what you might call personal freedom. They are all […]

10 Steps to Living a Strategic Life

Back in the day, I used to talk about something called Image Direction and the Image Directors. What I meant by that was, in the most basic of terms, determining who I was and what I wanted to do. From there the goal was to create a targeted plan of action to get me where […]