Lesson 2

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Survive In Place Lesson 2
The Ultimate Step-By-Step guide to creating your Urban Survival Plan
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Welcome to your second SurviveInPlace© lesson!
I have received several responses about lesson 1 and how much people got
out of going through the exercises. If you havenÓt completed them yet, I
encourage you to do so as soon as possible.
Remember, itÓs a self-paced course, so you can complete it in 12 weeks or
stretch it out longer once youÓve received the lessons.
IÓd love to hear how your exercises from last week went for you. Please let
me know by emailing me at
david@surviveinplace.com
.
This week, weÓre going to be covering the following:
1.
The survival mindset and how it could have prevented an F-16 pilot
from committing suicide ď hour after safely landing his plane.
2.
How cell phones could stop you from making contact with
relatives during an emergency.
3.
A process to keep you from ending up with a garage full of
survival stuff you canÓt use.
4.
Your first big exercise.
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Identifying local threats.
So, hit the ÐprintÑ button, start reading, and letÓs get prepared!
The Will To Survive:
One of my good friends was the head of the SERE (Survival Evasion Resistance
Escape) program at Offut AFB for several years. IÓll be sending you a couple of
interviews that I did with both him and his top instructor, but one of their stories is
so important, that IÓm including it now.
Back in the 70s, there was an incident where an F-16 pilot needed to make an
emergency landing and landed at an abandoned airstrip in Alaska.
He landed perfectly. The plane was unharmed and he was fine. Unfortunately, he
thought that his distress signal did not get out, and gave up, pulled out his
Barretta, and shot himself.
They estimate that he did this within 30 minutes of landing.
Help arrived within 2 hours of the initial distress call, which would have been well
before his water/food/ or any other supplies ran out.
This is a common story. In wilderness situations, people often die after a single
night of ÐexposureÑ at 50-60 degrees, even when they have proper clothing.
Soldiers who have watched too many movies have died in Iraq & Afghanistan after
receiving otherwise non-lethal injuries.
On the other side, one of the more amusing survival stories is of a gentleman who
crashed his plane in a desert area and survived for almost a week in extreme
heat/cold with almost no supplies, skills, food, or water.
The driving force for his survival?
He was in the middle of a divorce and refused to die and let his wife get everything.
The point of this is that the mind is a VERY powerful tool, and will either be your
worst enemy or your most valuable tool in a survival situation. There are two easy
steps you can take to make your mind work for you.
1.
Choose to have a positive mental attitude.
2.
Have something bigger than yourself to live for.
Entire books have been written on this topic, and if you want some suggestions of
authors/books that IÓve found particularly helpful, please email me and let me
know. To be honest, this was an area that I had to address myself when I started
going through the process of fixing my survival plan.
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I was so focused on the bad political, economic, and global social events that were
going on that I had stopped practicing the discipline of thinking positively,
regardless of the situation.
In short, if you havenÓt already, you need to make a discipline of thinking
positively. This doesnÓt mean that you walk around with rose colored glasses on or
ignore reality, but it does mean that you control your mind. You still need to
acknowledge when problems exist, but focus on finding solutions and what it will
feel like to have successfully navigated the situation.
ThereÓs a famous saying, ÐWho by worrying can add a single hour to his life?Ñ that
is very true. Over the last few years, many people have been worried about a flu
pandemic of one sort or another. How does ÐworryingÑ about it help you? How
does worrying hurt you?
Besides effecting your brain chemistry negatively, hurting your ability to sleep,
making you depressing to be around, and increasing blood pressure, it wastes time.
A better approach is to only concern your mind with things that you have control
over. As an example, you donÓt have any control on whether or not there is a
global flu pandemic.
You do have control over how you are/are not going to respond if it becomes a
reality and effects you. Identify the threat, figure out your plan and move on. By
going through this course, youÓre going to do just thatÈcreate logical responses to
potential threats so that you donÓt have to waste your life worrying about things
that may or may not happen. YouÓll address them head-on once, write out your
plan for dealing with them, and then go on living your life.
YouÓre also going to need to have something bigger than yourself that keeps you
moving forward.
Take a few seconds right now and imagine a Mad Max scenario. While I donÓt know
if weÓll ever see a time like that, it provides a good mental image for this exercise.
So, youÓre in Mad Max world and itÓs TOUGH. YouÓve lost friends and loved ones.
You donÓt have AC, a bed, or showers, let alone food or clean water. Your time is
divided between avoiding danger and providing basic necessities.
Why would you keep going? WouldnÓt it be easier to just roll over and quit?
NO!
But you have to train your mind to believe this, and the earlier you start telling
your mind why it needs to keep going in hard times, the better it will respond when
the time comes. So what are your reasons?
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God? Family? Creating a safe place for your children to grow up in? Some cause?
For myself, itÓs that I want to do more for God and that I want to protect and spend
more years with my wife and son.
IÓve got several other things that are important to me. Friends, relatives, the
concept of liberty, etc, but God, wife, & son are the 3 things that I would choose
over all others, including myself.
The point is that they have to touch you emotionally at a deep level and need to be
things that are worth going through pain to protect/preserve.
TO DO:
Complete the following sentences for as many items as you honestly can:
ÐI would walk through fire forÈ.Ñ
ÐI would walk through fire toÈ.Ñ
Put the written list in your SurviveInPlace Plan.
If you need to, reread the course description at
www.SurviveInPlace.com
. As you
go through it, some sections will resonate with you and cause you to think of the
people/causes that you would walk through fire for.
Please make sure and complete this exercise. It will not only help you in a survival
situation, but by identifying what is most important to you now, it will help you
complete this course and successfully put your survival plan in place. It might also
cause you to make some major life changes like moving closer to family or finding a
job where you work less than you do now or in an area that youÓre more passionate
about.
Communicating with family during an emergency:
In a very strange way, people were much more mentally prepared for
communication breakdowns before cell phones became popular.
If you look around any public area, youÓll probably see half of the people around
you with a phone up to their ear and most of the rest will have a phone in their lap,
on their waist or a visible bluetooth headpiece. 15 years ago, if any of your
relatives wanted to get ahold of you, theyÓd just have to wait until you were at
home or your office. Now, they EXPECT to be able to reach you immediately and
not being able to reach a friend/loved one quickly can be cause for panic.
15 years ago, I acutally knew the numbers for my family and friends. I didnÓt have
speed dial, and I could call everyone who was important to me from any phone. I
had new numbers written down and sometimes carried a day planner with the rest
of my numbers.
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In those days, I could fall in a pool without losing all of my important numbers. In
an emergency situation, I could get soaked by a fire sprinkler system and still find a
phone and call my relatives to coordinate a time/place to meet up.
Six months ago, I realized this had changedÈI carried numbers in my wallet, but I
didnÓt know my own home phone number, or any of my family membersÓ cell phone
numbers. I didnÓt have to because they were all in my phone, but what that meant
is that if my phone died or didnÓt work in an emergency, I couldnÓt get in touch with
any of them.
As I mentioned, my wife and I have carry a business card that we printed out on
our printer using Avery printer card stock (Avery 8878). They have our basic
information (name, blood type, medical information) on them along with key
contact numbers. This allows me to have a written backup for the key numbers I
would need in an emergency and itÓs easy to occassionally pull out the card and
refresh my memory on the key numbers. Since the realization that I didnÓt actually
KNOW my important numbers anymore, IÓve started taking out this card
occasionally and memorizing the information on it.
TO DO:
Write/type your important information and contact numbers on a business
card. Start carrying it with you and memorize the information on it.
Print it out on water resistant stock if possible (Avery 8878) but donÓt wait to
take this step. Use an old business card of yours or someone elses and
simply write on the back of it until you have business card paper to use.
When NOT to call after an emergency.
Recently, when I was in San Francisco for a ÐgeekÑ conference, I learned a valuable
lesson about how cell phones work during emergencies.
I was downtown at the Moscone Center with 20,000 other geeks and it seemed like
at least 1/3 of the room had iPhones. My phone was working fine initially, and then
I couldnÓt get email or browse anymore. Then when lunch time came around, I
couldnÓt get any of my friends on the phone, even though text messaging worked.
The phones worked sporattically throughout the rest of the day. IF I was able to
connect with anyone, weÓd lose the call within seconds, even with a strong signal.
Curious, I called AT&T later that night and found out that the sheer concentration of
data enabled phones being used at our conference caused the closest cell tower to
overheat. This put more of a load on the surrounding towers and they crashed like
dominos. By the time AT&T had the problem identified and figured out, 7 towers
had burnt out circuitry and txt messages were the only traffic that were getting
through during the day for the next 2 days.
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