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It’s Time To Become More Resilient & More Engaged
If there’s one message to take away from this newly-updated Crash Course video series, it’s this: It’s time for you to become more resilient and more engaged. Things are changing quickly and nobody knows how much time we have before the next economic, ecological or energy related crisis erupts. Nobody knows when, but we do have a pretty good idea of what is coming.
Either you respond to these inevitable changes or they will happen to you. That’s the simple choice we all face.
Yet I really want you to understand that this is not a message of doom and gloom, but one of excitement and hope. How so?
Because it is within your control to enter the coming future with a higher degree of security, prosperity and fulfillment than you enjoy now.
By using the time we still have available to us now, before the trends described within the Crash Course arrive in force, to build resilience. To invest in the practices that will increase your quality of life, whatever the future may bring.
If you, like millions of others, felt concern, anxiety or even fear while watching the videos released over the past year through this newly-updated Crash Course series, then it’s time for you to take control of your life, too, and begin doing things differently – whatever that means for you.
But know this: whether you are young or old, rich or poor, urban or rural – there are concrete steps you can and should take beginning the moment you stop watching this final video.
They only require that you to decide to begin doing them. You don’t necessarily have to move, or buy a lot of expensive stuff; but you do have to be willing to start changing what you do.
And as you begin this journey, you’ll soon learn that it’s about much more than just yourself. Resilient individuals create resilient families, which in turn lead to resilient communities, then resilient towns & cities, then states and whole countries, and eventually a more resilient planet. By taking action in your own life, you open the door to a better future for all of us.
Those looking for specific step-by-step guidance on how to put these resilience-building recommendations into motion should review our What Should I Do Guide?, which lays out a suggested progression along with specific products and actions to consider.
If you haven’t watched the earlier videos, the full suite of chapters in this new Crash Course series can be found at www.peakprosperity.com/crashcourse
And for those who have yet to view it, be sure to watch the ‘Accelerated’ Crash Course — the under-1-hour condensation of the new 4.5-hour series. It’s a great vehicle for introducing new eyes to this material.
14 Comments on "It’s Time To Become More Resilient & More Engaged"
Davy on Mon, 12th Jan 2015 8:04 am
Article said – “Yet I really want you to understand that this is not a message of doom and gloom, but one of excitement and hope. How so?”
Folks this may be true if you have the ability to change. It may be true if you have the ability and can have the time to make the transition. I can tell you as a doomer and prepper for many years now with abilities this transition is just pain tough to undertake. I am having the time of my life because I found a hobby that fits my personality. I am not sure how much fun this will be for someone who has an unrelated passion. The effort itself is not easy and often frustrating because the effort is BAU contrary. Fighting BAU with BAU is also difficult. For example you need a BAU job or income to leave BAU. That sounds absurd to me but it is the paradox of prepping.
The “Crash Course” is selling something but I must admit it is something good. We can never have enough resilience especially with what we face. Doing anything now is smart. Try as little as one month food rations. You can work up from there to more advanced efforts. Yet, please don’t get too much excitement and hope because it won’t last. IMA don’t get a mistaken belief this will save you. There is no guarantees of survival prepped or not. There is going to be lucky f-cks that have done nothing but in the right place and right time that survive and prepped joes like me that are going to see their work swept out with the tide.
The most important point I can make to my friends here on the PO forum is orientation. If you align with the stars the stars will support you if you alien against them they will crush you. This is a goofy way of saying the trends and forces of life are changing away from growth to descent. If you are going to have a beneficial outcome then prepping for this change is vital. We are talking a paradigm shift and or a pole shift in reality.
If there is no way to physically change at least mentally prepare. Try learning to do less with less because that is what is ahead. We are talking rationing and sacrifices. I fast during the week as an example. Experience hunger as training. Each time I have a good meal or drink my coffee the thought is in the back of my mind about that day that luxury is no more. There are so many things you can do to prepare that are not physical but mental. Lifestyles and attitudes are the precursors to the physical. Most of all folks if you are enjoying life now enjoy it to its fullest. Do not waste what you have now for the stupid reasons we do. Enjoy those things and your good life right here right now. This may be the last period of prosperity any of us know. To waste that moment will be regrettable someday.
Makati1 on Mon, 12th Jan 2015 8:05 am
You can step down the ladder voluntarily, or you can wait until it is pulled out from under you.
Apneaman on Mon, 12th Jan 2015 11:22 am
Soon we will not need to drill for natural gas. Mother nature is about to provide more than enough for everyone.
Trapped methane escapes as Pacific depths warm up
http://www.climatenewsnetwork.net/trapped-methane-escapes-pacific-depths-warm/
J-Gav on Mon, 12th Jan 2015 1:41 pm
A lot of good ‘ole common sense stuff chez Chris Martenson and even a bit more.
But it’s clear some aspects of this message are not for everyone. For Example, “Preserve your Wealth,” supposes you have some. What of the vast majority who have NONE? Shit outta luck? It would seem so. Life can be cruel, can’t it? Although, some of those unlucky ones may be well armed and getting pissed off …
Let us hope it doesn’t come to some sort of ‘civil’ conflict, but in times like these nothing is guaranteed.
Dredd on Mon, 12th Jan 2015 1:57 pm
First, we should answer a very important question.
Which is: why are Americans who travel the world asked “is your country crazy?” (The Life and Death of Bright Things – 2)
Makati1 on Mon, 12th Jan 2015 8:11 pm
Dredd, because it is. My friends here in the Ps are always asking me about US events that seem crazy to them.
The insane don’t know they are insane until a normal person points it out. The average American has no idea what is happening in the real world, and most don’t want to know. I live in the 3rd world now and it is not anything like I was told. The 3rd world is not bad, and has it’s advantages. At least the news is still multi-sided here in the Ps and the people go to the streets if there is good reason. No looting and burning, just protest in huge numbers.
I have to laugh when I pass the US embassy and see anti-aircraft guns and military beside the high walled main gate. Then I go past the Thai Embassy and it doesn’t even have a gate but one guard with a pistol that may not even be loaded. What is America afraid of?
bobinget on Tue, 13th Jan 2015 9:00 am
Poor folks don’t need high fences topped with concertina wire. Or, as in “middle class” neighborhoods broken glass embedded in cement atop high concrete block walls.
Americans living abroad are getting accustomed to
being asked about what seems to our host nations,
genuine insanity. During the Bush era I always replied in so many words, ‘this too shall pass’.
Today, i’m at a loss for cogent explanations.
Davy on Tue, 13th Jan 2015 9:26 am
I admit American absurdities but please folks don’t blow happy smoke up my ass about how the rest of the world is not maladjusted. The rest of the world is extremely F_ck-d up. The U.S. is just peaking out with it because of our income levels and diversity.
No place in the world is immune to the effect of an insane system. If you think you live in a place that is normal and rational you yourself are demonstrating the tell tale signs of mental illness. Any one of you non Americans or expats give me the name of your country and I will Google a little and come up with a long list of maladjusted behavior. Throwing stone in glass houses we know how that ends.
peakyeast on Tue, 13th Jan 2015 12:13 pm
I liked most of Martensons videos – but this was not one of them.
He is too much salesman and there is just too little information and reasoning.
Apneaman on Tue, 13th Jan 2015 12:47 pm
I’ll agree with you on Martenson’s too optimistic salesmanship.
Interesting handle you have there. I once dated a girl with peak yeast. Very sticky situation.
peakyeast on Tue, 13th Jan 2015 1:12 pm
lol@Apneaman..
At least you didnt get stuck IN the situation.
Davy on Tue, 13th Jan 2015 1:42 pm
Well, AP, that reminds me of the advice long ago an uncle gave me as a kid when he said nothing wrong with picking your nose just don’t use the same hand you wipe your butt with.
Apneaman on Tue, 13th Jan 2015 2:25 pm
peakyeast Lol back at ya.
Davy, that reminds me of a kid who tried to embarrass me in front of the other kids for not washing my hands after taking a piss.
In a real snotty voice he said, “Didn’t your dad teach you to wash your hands?”
I said, “No, he taught me not to piss on them”
Makati1 on Tue, 13th Jan 2015 7:01 pm
We have regressed to school yard humor…lol.
But, sometimes, I get the idea that some who want the rest of the world to be as bad as, or worse than the US, are those trapped in the Police State for various reasons.
Those 6 million plus of us who live outside the MSM Iron Curtain (200,000+ in the PS) have made the choice and walked the walk. There is a reckoning coming and those highest on the ladder have the longest to fall. Not those on the bottom rungs.