{"id":24869,"date":"2017-08-24T09:21:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T14:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24869"},"modified":"2017-08-24T09:21:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T14:21:22","slug":"want-to-be-better-prepared-find-some-prepper-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24869","title":{"rendered":"Want to Be Better Prepared? Find Some Prepper Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Want to Be Better Prepared? Find Some Prepper Friends<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

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We\u2019ve all heard about Jim Rohn, the motivational speaker and business philosopher who said that we are the average of the five people with whom we spend the most time.\u00a0This relates to so much more than business success.<\/p>\n

If you are a person who is\u00a0striving to be better prepared, it applies to you too.\u00a0With this in mind, perhaps the best way to up your prepping game is to find some prepper friends.<\/p>\n

Whenever we\u2019re surrounded by people who don\u2019t understand what we do, it makes it a lot more difficult to maintain motivation. It\u2019s so easy to slide into their habits when that becomes your \u201cnorm.\u201d Regardless of what you want to achieve \u2013 whether it\u2019s a higher level of preparedness, self-reliance, weight loss, business success, or some other goal \u2013 surrounding yourself with people on that same path can propel you to success much more rapidly.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m not saying you have to ditch your best friend or your spouse if they aren\u2019t on board with prepping. Definitely not. However, networking with people who are more into preparedness is a very good idea.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a real life example of how we can be influenced by those around us.<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The other day, I had to go to the courthouse to fill out paperwork for my new Concealed Carry Permit. The City Clerk\u2019s office happened to be on the same floor as the criminal court. There was a marquee just across from the elevators, and while I was waiting for mine to arrive, I overheard a conversation that really got me thinking.<\/p>\n

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Want to Be Better Prepared? Find Some Prepper Friends We\u2019ve all heard about Jim Rohn, the motivational speaker and business philosopher who said that we are the average of the five people with whom we spend the most time.\u00a0This relates to so much more than business success. If you are a person who is\u00a0striving to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5837,648,650],"class_list":["post-24869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-organic-prepper","tag-preparations","tag-prepping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24870,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24869\/revisions\/24870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}