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 have your hand up, nodding that you’ve run into that exact or a very similar situation.

Lots of Preppers Want to Know How to Convince Others to Be Prepared for Emergencies

With that… oh wait, I’m sorry, go ahead and put your hands down. Now, with that, I want to give you some tools that should give you some techniques and strategies to help you get your non-preparedness-minded family and friends on board.

Now, these tools and strategies are not rocket science, nor are they difficult to use. They take a little practice, a tweak to your mindset, and you’ll be all set. These tools are not new. Instead, they’re tried, tested, and proven to work and will be excellent additions to your Mind4Survial.

One of the most common complaints I hear from fellow preppers is that their family and friends won’t get on board with preparedness. So, all too often, many of us are stuck preparing on our own. Some of you not only have to prepare on your own, but you must do so in secret.

While I’ve never experienced that, I can sympathize with how difficult it must be having to hide such an essential aspect of your life. Heck, even if you don’t have to prepare in secret, preparing by yourself when your friends and loved ones don’t see the point or poke at you, stinks.

So, because this is such a big issue with preppers, I decided to dedicate this episode to arming you with some strategies and techniques to help make your prepper life a little easier. I think you’ll find it interesting, and if you follow some of the steps here, you may see that you are no longer an army of one.

We’re going to cover a number of ideas on how to convince someone to be prepared for emergencies. The main topics we’re going to go over to make that happen are:

five reasons people don’t prepare

how to win friends and influence people

some of the do’s and don’ts of convincing people to be prepared for emergencies

Let's get started.

How to Convince Someone to be Prepared for Emergencies

Alright, so we’ve all heard about or have experienced it when people, mainly family and friends, don’t want anything to do with preparing, and they shut us down whenever we bring it up.

Well, why do they shut you down? Sometimes we need to look at things from the other person's point of view. When we do, we may find ways to gain inroads to helping them understand why preparedness is so important.

When it comes to figuring out how to get other people to be prepared for emergencies, we often find ourselves frustrated, irritated, and unable to get people to understand how important preparedness is. Well, when it comes to convincing others to prepare, we need to follow a few things.

The Importance of Communication

First, we need to understand that we can’t talk over, preach, or try to browbeat people into preparedness just because we know it’s essential. They need to come to the idea through their thought processes, and that's what you can help with.

Next, we need to know the reasons, or in this case, the excuses people use as a reason why they don’t prepare. Once we understand why a person doesn’t want to prepare, we can then begin forming a strategy for getting them across the preparedness finish line.

Lastly, we need to understand how to interact with people to encourage them to want to become prepared. We need to use a mindset that incorporates techniques that make the person you are trying to convince to prepare into a like-minded ally, rather than an anti-prepper who is in line to become the next disaster victim we hear about o...