Prepper Life: Just Start
February 19, 2020

    Prepare mightily.  Prepare with pizazz.  Prepare as if your life depended on it.  (It does.)  Prepare for doomsday, if you must.  But while you're at it, you might as well prepare for the life you want.  You can't know whether you'll get that life, but you can know this: you won't get it if you don't prepare for it.  

    Take a lesson from quantum physics: observation of a phenomenon can change that phenomenon.  So observe.  Observe your life, where you are.  Observe your desires.  Where do you want to be?  Where do you want your family to be?  Your community?  The world?  Start preparing for that, and you're far more likely to be in a position to help it happen  – or perhaps something even better or more interesting.

    Here's one: prepare in such a way as to leave as many doors open for yourself as possible.  Life and time will close most of your doors of opportunity all by themselves.  They don't need any active help from you, except in instances where a particular path, such as marriage, calls for special commitment and fidelity to one person or endeavor, to the exclusion of others.  But even those doors – the ones that seem to cut you off from other opportunities – can be magical, in a sense, because they can open on the other side to whole new worlds of opportunity you didn't even know existed, worlds inaccessible without that special commitment and fidelity.  But you have to be ready to walk through these doors at an opportune time. 
         
    So you have to prepare.  You have to train yourself to be a person of commitment and fidelity, if that is the life you wish to share with another person.  If you want a life of financial freedom, practice some financial discipline. Nix just one discretionary expense, and put the savings toward debt reduction or in a savings account.  See where that leads.  If you want to be physically healthy, take a walk and eat an apple.  You don't have to get it all right, right now.  Just start practicing.  Just start preparing.  

    Just start.