Posts by Brian Duff
48: 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…
Read More35: Time Management for Preppers
Time and time management is one of our biggest frustrations as preppers. Almost all of us suffer from a heavy dose of not enough hours in the day. While all of our great technology makes things easier, it also causes us to be busier. Think about it. Most of us have a smartphone rooted in our hand…
Read More33: New to Prepping? Focus on These 4 Basics
Are you new to prepping? It can be overwhelming at first, but you will quickly become better prepared if you cover four basic areas. It all starts with a mindset about covering all your bases so that you’re ready in case of a crisis. What to Focus on When You’re New to Prepping The best…
Read More32: Are You Making These Common Prepping Mistakes?
Everyone is working hard to get prepared, but it’s easy to fall victim to the biggest prepping mistakes out there. Our consensus of the biggest prepping mistakes is based on the results of a poll that was provided to over 1000 members of the Mind4Survival Facebook group. With its broad base of input, this provides…
Read More31: Personal Goal Setting
Personal goal setting is essential to successful prepping. And, if you’re ready to up your prepping game, this post and podcast episode is for you. Why It Is Important to Set Yourself Goals? Successful preppers and non-preppers alike set goals. For example, success-seeking students aim for better grades, and winning athletes strive for a personal…
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