Sometimes prepping isn’t about large scale SHTF events, sometimes it’s about preparing for personal doomsdays. Being even just a little prepared can help in a number of disaster scenarios…big and small.

To the average person, prepping is about hoarding food and wearing tactical gear. To preppers it’s about much more than that. It’s about living responsibly, taking care of our families, and preparing for hard times.

Prepping is about separating ourselves from the chaos. That chaos could be anything from paying off our car so the bank can’t repossess it, to storing food and avoiding the grocery store when all hell breaks loose.

SPP203 Preparing for Personal Doomsdays

In this week’s show we did go over some possible personal doomsday scenarios, but we wanted to go over more about the why and how, rather than the what.

Life Happens

Let’s face it, life happens, and it happens more often than we would like. Personal doomsday scenarios like these shouldn’t define us. What should define us is how we react and recover from them.

I consider these personal challenges in life, potholes, and some roads have more of them than others. Unless your car (you) is completely immobilized, you have no choice but to move on to the next pothole or road block. Hopefully along the way you are using the time between potholes to make the next one a little more bearable. This is what prepping is all about, preparing for the “what if”.

Losing Interest

All of this can cause you to lose interest in preparedness, or lose our motivation. This is completely natural, and we all go through it at one point or another. The goal should be to to avoid extended periods of stagnation. While we might have a little time to prepare for some disaster scenarios, some can spring on us at a moments notice.

It may be easier said than done depending on the situation, but there are ways to get back into prepping. If it’s the lack of money that is causing you to lose interest in preparedness, there are quite a few things you can do that don’t cost a dime. Prepping is not all about what supplies you have, prepping is about learning new skills, and learning to survive when those supplies aren’t available.

When it comes to the loss of a family member, or personal trauma, prepping can (for good reason) fall down your list of priorities. While it’s important to take the time to grieve, or work through these issues, we can’t afford to let prepping sit on the back burner for too long.

Learning to Live on Less

When you think about it, learning to live on less is a huge part of preparedness. We think about how they lived 100 years ago, and strive to learn the skills they used in their daily lives. As I said earlier, prepping is about more than gas masks and MRE’s, it’s about being financially and physically responsible in preparation for the hard times ahead.

If you think about everything you need to become prepared, or what you have already spent, the number can be staggering. When you break it down into smaller pieces, that number doesn’t seem so large.