Effective Survival

Planning and Organization If going as a group, meet often with the other members of your party to set the goals of the trip and discuss how to achieve them. Assign specific duties and responsibilities for each individual member to learn about, prepare for and specialize in while on the ground. Such duties include: leader, [...]

Boy Scouts Motto: “Be Prepared” For anyone planning to go on a journey, camping trip, hiking, taking an airplane or ship to another continent or any type of expedition should follow the Boy Scouts motto, which is “be prepared.” This is always very good advice. Discover for yourself as much as possible about the situations [...]

AN OVERVIEW OF SURVIVAL

Survival is not just living and continuing to be alive. It is an active participation in effective “doingness” that results in good health and a better existence for yourself, your family, your friends and often your neighbors. It can also include your business associates and sometimes your country and even all of humanity.

There is no such thing as bad survival. If a person is not surviving, they are dying and if they do not force themselves to consider the situation and actively do something effective to change it, they will not make it. This is just as true in normal life as it is in survival situations.