41: How to Cultivate Your Prepper Mentality

Improving 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…

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40: Getting Started Prepping? These 4 Tips Will Help

Just getting started prepping? These 5 tips can 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…

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38: Preparing for an Active Shooter Event

Plan and rehearse for an active shooter encounter

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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35: Time Management for Preppers

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…

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33: New to Prepping? Focus on These 4 Basics

Here are the 4 basics to focus on if you are new to prepping

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…

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32: Are You Making These Common Prepping Mistakes?

Prepping mistakes can be costly when made.

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…

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31: Personal Goal Setting

Personal goal setting is essential to successful prepping.

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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How to Purify Water for Drinking

How to purify drinking water

Do you know how to purify water for drinking? Having enough fresh, pure water to meet our daily consumption needs is a part of everyday life. Unfortunately, most of us tend to take it for granted until the worst happens. Ideally, you have an available store of clean water on hand when a disaster occurs.…

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29: Personal Safety and Security Tips

Whether in the woods or the city, these tips will help you keep yourself safe

Personal safety and security tips are essential. People must understand that tragedy can befall anyone. Therefore, it is up to each of us to enhance our personal security posture as much as possible. In so doing, we will be less likely to experience problems, as in the case of Kevin Hamby of Lancing, TN. While…

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How Much Water Do You Have to Drink a Day?

Guide for determining how much water to drink per day

How much water do you have to drink a day to stay hydrated, healthy, and able to perform at the top of your game? In the developed world, we tend to take clean, potable drinking water for granted. Typically, you don’t think about how much water you should drink a day. It’s understandable. Water is…

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