No matter how much you prepare for a survival situation unless you manage to pull off “blind luck,” there will items or areas you discover you could have planned and prepared for better.

That reality, by the way, applies to much more than just survival – it also applies to just about every event we encounter in our everyday lives.

How often are we surprised that we did not think to bring “that” or forgot the one item that we needed?

In a survival situation, that reality is exacerbated, mainly because our minds, bodies and emotions are under immense stress – almost the entire time we are in that situation.

That means you have to cover at least seven core areas of preparation before you are up to your eyeballs in things you forgot.

On the next page, we cover those seven core areas of preparation.

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