When you get down to it, no matter what type, most survival situations and their outcomes for people come down to a few simple, but vital decision points.

Whether to plan ahead, what to include in your planning, the degree of your situational awareness, how well prepared you are before a crisis and what to do if the worst happens are all examples of fairly important, but usually very simple decisions.

How you handle each can mean the difference between not making it, making it but under duress, making it with relative ease and thriving.

Within that decision-making process, is the major issue of prioritization.

Under the gun, people generally will not make bad decisions, but their prioritization of decisions is often suspect.

The Eisenhower Decision Matrix is one way of making sure you make important and urgent decisions in a timely and sensible manner.

To see how to prioritize decisions, check out the next page.

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