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Always Be Aware Of Your Survival Skills
Chances are you are familiar with the process of doing a good job at something you enjoy.
This principle should also apply to your survival skills and the abilities that you hope to rely upon in the off chance that you have to put those skills to use.
This often means that you have to do things that will give you the practical opportunity to practice and hone those skills.
Luckily, there are a ton of ways that you can practice these skills quite easily, such as camping.
A single camping trip will give you several days to practice fire-building skills, basic safety, survival food prep, and a host of other basic skills.
More advanced skills, such as self-defense and first aid are going to require more practical steps like joining a training course for CPR and weekly training for martial arts.
In either case, you should have a plan or strategy in place that you can apply so that you can stay on top of your game without having to spend your lifetime prepping for something that never happens, and the answer is yes you can live your life and still prepare.
For example, during a camping trip, make a game of the skills with your family by making the kids earn points for each basic skill they perform,
This means simple chores, like getting water, building a small a-frame shelter, or tying some knots could earn them credits for something else that they may prefer such as game time on the computer when your trip is done.
You can also stage mock experiences at home in your backyard and think of these as no different than practicing a "fire drill".
Many years ago before modern technology has been locking kids in front of a screen, the average child spent most of their day outside learning and playing in nature.
Because children no longer spend all day long learning practical skills such as farming, using ropes, and scrounging wild berries, the overall effect is causing children to lose many of the basic skills that they would have had access two just 20 or thirty years ago.
The more you learn and practice, the better you hone your skills and the less you will need to practice the basic skills you already know, this will free up your time and brain power so that you can learn and grow newer skills.
Use Your Survival Plan As A Guide
If you haven't already created a survival plan then you should get to the process of creating one to have on hand.
Much like a basic fire drill or emergency exit plan for a building, your survival plan is a definitive guide that you and your family have planned out in advance of dangerous situations so that you are all on the same page.
Whether this is as simple as setting up a meeting place in the event of danger, to having a planned bug-out bag, choice of vehicles, planned route, and safety cache of supplies to acquire, the plan enables you and your family to follow the plans that you outlined to make sure everyone is doing ok during a survival event.
The last thing you want is to have to spend valuable time wandering around in a state of panic looking for each other or wondering what to do next.
Begin with having a notebook in your main bugout bag, and one in your portable bag (such as in your car), which has a few pages of multiple copies in the event you have to give a plan to your family members.
Keep them encoded in a manner that only you or close family would fully understand by using examples like;
"Meeting place: Our summer camping spot".
Instead of using something like: "Meetup ay the weapons cache behind the garage on 5 Our Street, in our town,"
The last thing you need is your valuable, detailed, easily understood, plan that leads to your supplies, money, and safety to be easily deciphered by others who may also be panicking during the emergency.