Prepping – in many ways, it’s all in the mind. Developing the right mindset will certainly help you be better prepared for whatever outrageous slings and arrows life happens to throw at you.
What is a mindset?
That’s all well and good but what exactly is a mindset? To illustrate what is generally meant by the term, it is perhaps no accident that it has been adopted as the name of a domestic company, Mindset UK.
The mission of this business training consultancy is encapsulated in some words by a Harvard psychologist, who insisted that simply by changing the attitudes and attributes of our minds, we can also change external aspects of our lives – and this is perhaps the biggest revolutionary breakthrough of the present generation.
If you adopt and develop the right mindset, you gain a “can do” attitude right from the start, become more effective in your problem solving, and know when and how to accept feedback from others.
In other words, many of the very qualities you will need as a prepper.
Developing that mindset
If it’s all it’s cracked up to be how do you go about developing the mindset that will prepare you for any eventuality likely to come your way? How do you get it to serve you well as a prepper?
Developing this kind of mindset is likely to be a continuous progression, as you develop the habits most likely to boost your way of thinking and looking at the world:
- learn to anticipate – instead of reacting to situations as and when they happen, try to anticipate them by carefully observing the build-up to the event;
- from time to time, that might mean trusting your instinct that something is going to happen – and the more developed your habits of anticipation, the more likely your instincts are to be right;
- events you are most likely to anticipate are almost certainly the results of others’ actions – so learn to “people watch”, out of your natural sense of curiosity, for sure, but also to learn what they will probably do next;
- as a matter of course – and a continuous habit – take stock of your surroundings and assess potential threats, opportunities, and means of escape (read our blog: Developing observational skills);
- remember that mirrors and other reflective surfaces – such as shop windows – can be valuable in observing in a less obtrusive and obvious way what is going on around you;
- some items are going to be essential to your daily routines wherever you go – so, know exactly where you have put your car and house keys, wallet, mobile phone, briefcase and so on;
- talking of mobile phones, don’t throw that old one away when it’s time to upgrade but keep it handy – and fully charged – to use as a reserve or backup device if you lose and cannot otherwise access your main phone;
- have a grab bag or bug out bag ready – either for at home, your car or stashed somewhere safe and secure;
- a positive mindset will have set milestones for all those regular checks that need to be made – all the way from health check-ups and vaccinations to regularly testing and checking the state of the batteries in fire alarms and smoke detectors at home as well as the ensuring the charge on any rechargeable devices such as batteries in torches etc;
- since you’ll probably be using it to make good any escape, get in the habit of keeping the fuel tank in your car always at least half full, suggested an article by the Organic Prepper on the 13th of October 2020.
A mindset of preparedness is key to just about every waking minute of the prepper’s life. Developing that mindset means developing positive habits. And habits become so natural you’re hardly aware that you continue to do them.
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