Preppers: What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do
Most Times, Any Action Is Better Than Inaction. But, Sometimes You Just Gotta Do Nothing...
We are living in absolutely crazy times right now. What with the crashing economy, the potential of world war getting closer and closer, looming terror threats, our fragile power grid, and frequent heated demonstrations about Gaza, Israel, the President, and ICE, it’s difficult to focus your prepping energy. A lot of folks have said they currently feel incredibly helpless because they don’t know what to do. Today, we’ll talk about what to do.
It’s overwhelming.
Our present situation is nothing if not overwhelming. Threats are coming at us from all different directions. How can we focus on just one without missing an important indicator?
It’s easy to get sucked into the cycle of fear, but that is paralyzing.
You may need to limit your access to news to get beyond it. I’m certainly not saying to completely ignore it – just to carefully select your sources and not scroll on newsfeeds and X all day long. We need information, but I’m not sure we need constant, every-second-of-our-lives information. I think that makes things seem even worse than they are in an already bad situation.
Find some trusted sources and limit yourself to those. Also, you may want to put a time limit on this.
There’s a name for spending hours reading negative news. It’s called “doom-scrolling,” and…