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Doomsday is not all about preparing for martial law or a nuclear bomb to drop, doomsday is about what has the ability to change the way you live your life. People that know very little about preparedness think that all preppers all living in an underground bunker, surrounded by weapons and ammo, wearing a gas mask waiting on pins and needles for someone to attack.

If you have been preparing for any period of time you know how absurd this is, and if you just started prepping don’t fall for it. While these people are out there, most of us are average everyday people concerned in one way or another about potential disasters we might face.

In reality preparing for these smaller scale events like natural disasters and job loss are more important, and more likely. This doesn’t mean that it’s ok to forget about these larger disasters because they are a very real possibility, it just means to start from the ground up and build a good foundation for survival.

It really bothers me when I hear “I’m preparing for” anyone who says this might as well be saying “I am ignoring.” If everything you do is centers on an EMP disaster you likely to get blindsided by something completely different and not be prepared for it.

On shows like Doomsday Preppers you see someone who lives in a suburban area and spends 10’s of thousands of dollars fortifying his or her home, to me this is missing the point. If you live in an area with a high population with just your family, why not spend that money getting the hell out of there?

I don’t care if you have 10,000 rounds of ammunition 50 guns and a big bad bug out vehicle parked in the driveway, you still only have 2 arms. If a group of people know you have all that stuff and want it, they will do whatever it takes to get it.

My point is, don’t get so focused on one threat that you completely miss the bigger threat staring you right in the face.

In this week’s podcast Lisa and I talked about the different faces of doomsday and what they mean to us.

Not everyone’s situation is the same, and therefor there isn't any one size fits all solution when it comes to prepping. By working on becoming more prepared for these personal doomsday events that are more likely to affect us and our family, you will find that you are becoming more prepared for world changing or history making events.

Accidents that change to income dynamic of a home, can also happen at work and some jobs are more hazardous than others. If you work in an office your drive to work might be more dangerous, but if you work in construction or any manual labor job that should be included in your preparedness plans.

Home Invasion & Loss of Property: We all do what we can to keep our family and home safe from anyone wanting to do us harm, but the sad truth is that it still happens. Some people just want the easy way out and if we make ourselves targets we increase the odds of someone coming and taking everything we have.

Loss of property can also be caused by fires, flooding and even spoilage from improperly storing our supplies. The last thing you want to do in a disaster is open a bucket of long term food and find that the mice have been helping themselves to it.

Job loss: Because of the way the economy is these days we depend on a certain amount of money coming in each month just to stay afloat. Having a good preparedness plan involves setting yourself up to handle extended periods of time without that money coming in.