I'm a list maker and a journal keeper. It helps me to stay focused on my goals to write them down and make a plan about how I want to reach those goals. Whenever beginning any project, even prepping, it helps to know why you are doing it, what the goals are, how you plan to accomplish those goals and also to keep a record of what you actually did as you worked towards your goals. Even failures along the way are helpful if you learn from them.
If you're a beginning prepper, now is the time to sit down and decide what you want to do. Start a fresh notebook or computer spreadsheet and write out your goals and what you want to accomplish. Don't make all your goals long term or too cut and dry. It won't benefit you NOW to only write down that you want to have a years or two years supply of food. Be more specific and set short term goals as well that you can check off as you attain them.
So, you may write down that you want two years worth of supplies but you also need to write down that you want to start with a weeks worth of food, then a months worth and so on. You might want to make lists of what that years supply includes. You can list just the basics for a few months and then add some other things to make the basics into a more rounded diet.
Don't stop with just the list of what you want to buy. Make goals and lists of skills you need to learn and practice, changes in your home you need to make (like water barrels or a garden or black out curtains) and also changes in lifestyle that you may need to plan for such as a complete power outage. What will you do if that happens and how prepared for that are you now? How prepared do you need to be? Those are all things to plan for and aim for as you begin to prep.
For those who are old time Preppers, goals and plans never really stop. There is always something else to plan for or learn. A long term goal may be to increase the supplies that you already have. A short term goal might be to work on this years garden to improve it for next year or ready it for fall.
The long time Prepper also needs to stop occasionally and take stock of what has been accomplished and where the holes are in his or her preps. Its surprising sometimes to realize that a few months have gone by and nothing has been accomplished due to life getting in the way or prepper fatigue. Having goals and evaluating them helps with that stagnation as well and keeps a prepper prepping.
Southern Wood Elf
If you're a beginning prepper, now is the time to sit down and decide what you want to do. Start a fresh notebook or computer spreadsheet and write out your goals and what you want to accomplish. Don't make all your goals long term or too cut and dry. It won't benefit you NOW to only write down that you want to have a years or two years supply of food. Be more specific and set short term goals as well that you can check off as you attain them.
So, you may write down that you want two years worth of supplies but you also need to write down that you want to start with a weeks worth of food, then a months worth and so on. You might want to make lists of what that years supply includes. You can list just the basics for a few months and then add some other things to make the basics into a more rounded diet.
Don't stop with just the list of what you want to buy. Make goals and lists of skills you need to learn and practice, changes in your home you need to make (like water barrels or a garden or black out curtains) and also changes in lifestyle that you may need to plan for such as a complete power outage. What will you do if that happens and how prepared for that are you now? How prepared do you need to be? Those are all things to plan for and aim for as you begin to prep.
For those who are old time Preppers, goals and plans never really stop. There is always something else to plan for or learn. A long term goal may be to increase the supplies that you already have. A short term goal might be to work on this years garden to improve it for next year or ready it for fall.
The long time Prepper also needs to stop occasionally and take stock of what has been accomplished and where the holes are in his or her preps. Its surprising sometimes to realize that a few months have gone by and nothing has been accomplished due to life getting in the way or prepper fatigue. Having goals and evaluating them helps with that stagnation as well and keeps a prepper prepping.
Southern Wood Elf