PART ONE:
Situational Awareness: Prepare to Survive

Despite what you may have seen on so-called “Reality” TV survival shows, preparedness is more than just guns, gear, and bunkers full of food. Survival has nothing to do with some guy running through the wilderness performing a bunch of stupid stunts. Living through actual disasters, dealing with real-life threats, and protecting yourself from the dangers that are out there requires you to adopt a survival mindset and to develop your situational awareness.

In this section I will help you

• identify what threats are out there, and help you spot them before they can do you harm.
• manage your exposure to threats, access your vulnerability, and help you do everything possible to completely avoid a catastrophe.
• lay out a detailed step-by-step plan for surviving crisis situations, including actions to take for surving during the aftermath.