It All Starts With the Right MINDSET

In a recent post How to make your home more resilient?, Alex from Australia wrote:

for survivalist, the most valuable thing is will power, the next is knowledge, the least is possessions.

And although I agree with the statement, I realized that having a supportive mindset would be on top of my list…

What mindsets, beliefs or attitudes you find supportive and willing to share with us?

A few of mine are in the first comment…

A few of the things that I’ve reprogrammed my mind in the last years in preparation for a SHTF situation are:

1. The most important part of the “The End of the World as We Know It” is “As We Know It” - meaning (for me) that it’s not the world ending, but the old and familiar ways that would disappear…

2. Trust is not about trusting that “everything will be ok at the end”, but trusting that “everything IS ok the way it is”

3. Most people when they consider the SHTF situation are stuck in one of the 5 stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance)… but we need to move to the sixth stage… Resilience.

4. The end of the world as we know it is an amazing opportunity to be forced by necessity to live the way we probably should have been living in the first place.

5. Collapse is the worst possible time to suffer a nervous breakdown, so it’s better to get ready ahead of time.

N. Neta wrote:A few of the things that I’ve reprogrammed my mind in the last years in preparation for a SHTF situation are:

1. The most important part of the “The End of the World as We Know It” is “As We Know It” - meaning (for me) that it’s not the world ending, but the old and familiar ways that would disappear…

2. Trust is not about trusting that “everything will be ok at the end”, but trusting that “everything IS ok the way it is”

3. Most people when they consider the SHTF situation are stuck in one of the 5 stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance)… but we need to move to the sixth stage… Resilience.

4. The end of the world as we know it is an amazing opportunity to be forced by necessity to live the way we probably should have been living in the first place.

5. Collapse is the worst possible time to suffer a nervous breakdown, so it’s better to get ready ahead of time.

Extremely well said. That's good

I agree ...

Whether it is a survival setting or just trying to live an off-grid lifestyle ...

It all starts with the right mindset.

Neither situation will be easy though for some practicing this scenario beforehand will help.

Love it.  Copied to my more importantly though file.

Stay in the moment but with a mind to the future too.    What can I do right now?  What can I do next?  

When the right now is taken care of,   do something to take care of the 'down the road'.     What do I like about where I AM right now?   Where would I LIKE to be IF that becomes available?  

I'm not generally someone afraid of change though,  that helps a lot.   Change is always an opportunity.

Evaluate essentials vs. luxuries.    Luxuries are fine, but know how to live without them too.

For me, being present and aware has helped a lot with mindset. I found that thinking too far forward or hanging on to the past hindered anything else I did.  Being present also helps with accepting change.

Anyone truly interested in survival in a true SHTF scenario would be well served by reading the articles written by Selco.  Selco's blogs  From the site:  "Selco survived the Balkan war of the 90s in a city under siege, without electricity, running water, or food distribution."

His experiences talk about actually living this situation, rather than the conjecture that is so prevalent on the internet on the subject.  Personally, I found his work really eye-opening.  He discusses the important of mindset in great detail, and covers a lot of fallacies about dealing with life after a collapse.