Posts by Brian Duff
57: Convincing Someone to Be Prepared for Emergencies
How many of you know people who are totally opposed to preparedness? Are you frustrated with trying to convince them to be prepared for emergencies? Do you know people, maybe family and friends, the minute you speak about preparedness, shut you down and don’t want to hear about it? If you’re like most preppers, you…
Read More56: Bug Out Bag Packing List – The Top 10 Items to Have
One discussion that often heats a prepper conversation is what you should be on your bug-out bag packing list. Most often, it’s one opinion versus another, then another, and so on until the conversation melts down. Pretty much everyone has a different idea of the perfect bug-out bag packing list. Today I want to share…
Read MoreM4S 053: What Is the Emergency Alert System? Is It Accurate?
What is the emergency alert system? Some residents of Salem, Oregon, found out a couple of years ago, and they also learned that it doesn’t always have the desired effect. Now, if you’re like me, it’s somewhat satisfying when something happens that shows that all of our crazy prepping efforts aren’t so crazy after all.…
Read MoreM4S 050: Five Ways to Make Quick Money
Knowing ways to make quick money is an essential prep for lean times. With financially difficult times possibly looming on the horizon, the ability to make quick money may be more critical now than ever before. In light of the rough times that may be ahead, can you name five ways how to earn cash fast?…
Read More48: Summer Preparedness Activities for Fun and Survival
Woo-hoo! Summer is almost about here, and so is the need for summer preparedness! I‘m sure most of you are over winter, but how many of you have thought about preparing for the summer? Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it), after spending over a decade in the Middle East, I know…
Read More45: The 7 Top Tips for Disaster Preparedness
Disasters can happen to anyone, anywhere. These tips for disaster preparedness can help people save their own lives. By taking the time to review and analyze your situation before a crisis occurs, you’ll find yourself better able to overcome emergencies. 1) Perform a Personal Risk Assessment A personal risk assessment will help you identify the…
Read More42: How to Increase Your Everyday Situational Awareness
Everyday situational awareness should be your constant state of being, but how do you focus with constant distractions? Challenges to situational awareness lurk around every corner. They pose a problem to all of our safety, security, and our very survival. Fortunately for all of us, many of the challenges to everyday situational awareness can be…
Read More41: How to Cultivate Your Prepper Mentality
Your prepper mentality will do more to keep you safe than all the gear, food, and weapons in the world. This episode features former CIA Clandestine Services Case Officer, Doug Patteson, of IngloriousAmateurs.com. Doug brings a wealth of knowledge and experience into play as he helps you improve your everyday prepper mentality to become…
Read More40: Getting Started Prepping? These 4 Tips Will Help
Here’s a secret that nobody tells you when you’re getting started prepping. Feeling overwhelmed is totally normal for new preppers. If that’s where you’re at right now, you need to know that you are not alone in how you feel. Many people, especially when they first begin to focus on their preparedness, feel as if…
Read More38: Preparing for an Active Shooter Event
Unfortunately, active shooter-related events are a part of our modern world and are on the rise in the United States. The media and politicians place salacious focus on firearms. But, they rarely, if ever, mention preparing for an active shooter event so that people know what to do if they are caught up in this…
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