13 Hatching a Plan

The ultimate marker of the prepared lifestyle is having a plan: a personalized playbook with simple, practical steps you intend to follow if faced with any of the consequential hardships you can reasonably anticipate. Now that you’ve evaluated the risks and considered possible lifestyle adaptations to limit your exposure to some of them, you’re ready to put pen to paper and start mapping out strategies for handling the hazards you can’t so neatly contain or evade.

At first blush, the idea of creating such a document may sound odd. The future is uncertain, so it would seem more useful to formulate a precise action plan ...

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