About ten months ago, I talked about updating my survival course. I thought it might take me a month or so to make the videos I was talking about, and then two months later I realized that wasn’t going to happen. At some point, I gave up trying to make videos that I was happy with and moved on to other things.
A few weeks ago I decided to give it another shot. But instead of forcing myself to do videos, I went back to what I’m comfortable with: writing my thoughts down on paper … virtual paper, anyway.
So, I got to work. Not only did I revamp the email portion of the course, I also crafted answers to the ten most pressing questions that people tend to ask me over the years. These include:
- How to Save Money on Survival Gear
- How to Save Time on Preparedness
- How to Convince Your Spouse to Prepare
- How to Organize Your Survival Supplies
- How to Bug Out
- How to Shelter in Place
- How to Have Privacy in the Suburbs
- How to Prepare for a Long-Term Power Outage
- How to Prepare When Away from Home
- How to Prepare as a Senior Citizen
But I didn’t just craft a few sentence answer for each. Instead, I went in-depth, answering each crucial question to the point of absurdity. At least, it felt that way. You can read more about it all here. Ultimately, it felt like I wrote another book or two or three.
I also included eight bonuses that you’ll want to get your hands on, including:
- List of the Best Barter Items
- List of Important Documents for Bug Out
- List of Expiration Dates (100+ items)
- Long-Term Task Tracking
- List of (FREE) Survival Guides
- Priority Checklist (for gathering supplies during evacuation)
- One Pager (for personal emergencies)
- Fire Safety Plan
These aren’t just fillers. They’re meant to give you crucial additional information that you’re going to want both now and if/when times get tough.
That’s all the completely new stuff in the course. But I also tossed in some more goodies that, if you’re relatively new to my blog and books, you’re going to love! You’ll just have to read more about it here.
Of course, it hasn’t gone unnoticed that today is 9/11. Today was, in fact, my goal for having the course updated. Why? Because September 11, 2001 was the day that woke me up. It was the day that, even though I didn’t realize it at the time, forced me to choose to prepare rather than to keep my head in the sand.
I was a young man, newly married, and trying my darndest to start a family. (We surely needed a lot of practice back then.) 9/11 was the first time in my adult life that I realized bad things really can happen in America. While I continue to detest what happened to the many Americans who lost their lives, I am grateful for the course change my life took after that day.
Honestly, I’ve never looked back. Survivalism has become a lifestyle for me and a career. I never intended to make money from my interest in survival; I simply wanted to share what I’d found and learned online, a “hobby” that started over fifteen years ago with this blog. But I’m not a dummy, either. I realized that I had a lot of knowledge to share, and so I did. First with a blog, then with books, and eventually with my 5-minute survival blueprint course, among other things.
Who knows where the next ten or twenty years will take me. I sure hope that I’m still around to find out and, more importantly, that our great country still exists. Because, like it or not, things are looking bad out there.
I suggest you keep your head down and prepare like times are going to get harder because I firmly believe the worst is yet to come.
Take care.
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