Doing: Is your rubber hitting the road?

The key to prepping is doing.

The one major difference between being an effective prepper and some guy/gal who understand the need to prep is simple. 

Effective preppers do.

Thunder’s just a noise, boys, lightning does the work

Like every great prepping idea, there’s a country music song to go with it…

I’ve just been sitting here thinking about everything I need to do over the next month or so to move forward in our prepping projects.

Every single thing I think of requires us to DO something. 

The 7 Habits

Steven Covey published the book “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People” back in 1989, and it’s an interesting and informative self-help business related book.

This article isn’t about Covey’s 7 habits (although there’s nothing wrong with any of them, and I probably will do several articles in the future breaking them down into prepping terms) but rather about one habit in particular that makes a highly effective prepper.

Salty’s Second Habit Of Highly Effective Preppers

Since you are probably wondering what my first habit is, I’ll go ahead and tell you and kill the suspense. Highly effective preppers are able to identify what their needs are, and then create mechanisms to fulfill those needs.

OK, Salty’s second habit of highly effective preppers is “doing”. In habit one, we identify. In my second habit, effective preppers concentrate on how get needs they identify filled.

My third habit is that once a need is addressed by the mechanism we come up with, and we do what needs to be done,  we then move on to the next need. 

While this sounds extremely obvious, in real life it turns out that many, many times people concentrate only on figuring out and identifying needs, and spend virtually no thought, effort, time or resources in finding ways to fulfill those needs.

Let’s have some rubber hitting the road… examples… 

Here’s a simple example, a need that most of us who live north of Florida already have a mechanism to solve… ice frozen on the windshield of your vehicle.

The need we have is ice removal  

The ice removal mechanism we have is Spice, some gloves and a scraper.

That’s what I’m talking about.

Perhaps it’s the fact that it’s easy to just talk on the internet and not actually get around to the “doing”. What I’d like to challenge everybody out there to do is the next time you start thinking along the lines of “this needs to be done, that needs to be done, and then we need to blah blah blah” just stop and address the first thing on the list.

Finally

I’ve been reading a lot of prepper news and seeing reactions, and I keep coming back to these basic points… that, as a community, we NEED to find better/effective mechanisms instead of worrying about finding more needs.

I propose the following answer: For every need you identify, have your first reaction be “OK, what mechanisms do I have to deal with that?” 

You will probably find that if you have done a good job of general prepping, you already have those tools/supplies/knowledge in place, so you can just set it aside and move on. 

If you don’t, then you need to add acquiring the necessary knowledge/tools/equipment/supplies to deal with it if it’s a reasonable need. 

We talk about this a lot here on 3BY, because mechanisms is what we are all about. It’s our “thing”. 

What we hope is that we can help you make it your “thing” too.