324: Finding Time to Prep When You Have None

When I asked Mind4Survival readers what gets in the way of their preparedness, money came first and time came second. In this Day 5 episode of National Preparedness Month, I take on time: why it's a resource like money, why the only way to get more of it is to manage what you have, and what research on long-term stress says about how it changes your judgment of how long things take. Then I cover seven ways experienced preppers make time for prepping: deciding what matters first, working in thirty-minute blocks, attaching prep to something you already do, fixing the start instead of the task, deciding what to hire out by hours rather than dollars, staying flexible with the season of life you're in, and defining done without waiting for perfect. Members of the Mind4Survival Facebook group share how they handle it. You can't fit more than twenty-four hours into a day. Being prepared for survival and everyday setbacks starts with deciding what those hours are for.