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In many ways today is truly and “old school” episode of The Survival Podcast.  “The Ant and The Grasshopper” is a timeless fable that will never stop being a great story of lifestyle design.  While many listeners will have a lot of this knocked out at this point, we can all use a refresher and a bit of work on fundamentals from time to time.

For new people this one is critical.  Get away from the Doomsday Mindset and the Alex Jones style hysteria and actually build redundancy into your lifestyle.  We will tech you exactly how to do that today with 20 simple steps. Is it really that simple?  Yes and no, it isn’t everything but it is the most important things.

More it is the 20 things literally anyone can do but 99% of people never will, including many who think they are “preppers” just because they have guns, ammo and some cases of MREs.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

1. Let’s start with the old fable of the grasshopper and the ant
2. The first thing you do is assess your current situation & stay calm
3. Journal your spending and your eating
4. Write a plan for debt elimination and begin creating an emergency fund
5. Put together a basic documentation package – Episode on This
6. Assemble a BOB for each family member (cheap and fast the first time around) – Episode on This
7. Inventory your pantry over a week or two (how much food do you have at your low point)
8. Begin storing up a 30 day supply of food you will eat anyway
9. Begin assembling a low cost 30 day long term storage supply
10. Determine multiple places where you would go if you had to leave and go at least 50 miles from home
11. Make plans for how you would help elderly parents or other family members
12. Update your resume and be prepared to loose your job on any given day and/or start a business or side hustle
13. Avoid focusing on any specific individual coming event or scenario
14. Plan a garden and start getting ready to plant (depending on the season) – Have some form of food production.
15. Learn about disaster commonality (it is not about the disaster it is about loss of support systems)
16. Learn about disaster probability (Personal-Localized-Regional-State-National-Global)
17. Determine your most probable “personal”, “local” and “regional” disasters for fine tuning
18. Start window shopping for “country land” or an “urban homestead” – Useful no matter what
19. Think of the children, won’t someone please think of the children (seriously think of YOUR children)
20. Assess your “normal preparations”
21. Bonus Point – Take ownership of your plan and your life
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