No sane person wants to ever face a SHTF scenario or survival situation – short or long term. The stress and anxiety are immense and usually that is exacerbated by a margin of error that is very slim.

When it happens, the only thing you can do is to make sure you are as prepared as possible. Unfortunately, however, many people make common mistakes in the stress of the moment and often times, those mistakes can harm a person and even be fatal.

Luckily, by preparation and applying common sense to a situation, most of these mistakes can be alleviated and even eliminated.

In fact, if you address the most common mistakes before they occur, your chances of surviving your situation increase exponentially.

On the next page, we cover some of the most common mistakes made by people facing a survival situation.

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