Thoughtful preparedness is like insurance. You don't do it for a specific event; you should do it for all potential threats. This point is clear, prepared is empowered. You are not a victim when you are actively involved effecting your outcome. Reject victimhood, prepare, empower yourself to survive.
We face real threats to our personal survival every day. Educate yourself, prepare, create processes, systems, kits and have supplies to allow self reliant survival. It is like having a spare tire and a jack in your vehicle. We all know tire issues happen, why not be prepared?
PracticeSurvival.com believes any reactive response will fail. Proactive preparedness is the reliable hedge for survival. No panic, no fear, such emotions dissipate in the face of practiced preparedness.
The first step to preparedness is identifying the real risks and threats to your survival so that you can plan accordingly to avert, minimize or eliminate them. Learning proper research skills and religiously applying them to every claim of risk presented will save you unbelievable hours of time, effort and angst over stupid rumors and allow you focus on the "real" challenges that you face. Once you have learned how to properly research facts you are prepared to begin identifying the real world risks using a risk matrix (see it on our site http://www.survivalrisks.com/ ).
No matter how prepared we are, we will never do it without help, but striving to be self reliant reduces the burden on others and confidence, calm and reliable results for us. Each new skill that we learn, each new ability that we develop, each time that we take another step toward being independent from others, the closer that we get to survival. It positively impacts every part of your life.