Tag Archives: Being ready for whatever comes next

Readiness: Be ready now: 3 things you can start doing this week to be ready for whatever comes next: Planning

Be ready now is a weekly post about things you can do right now to get ready for whatever might come next courtesy of Dennis L Hitzeman’s Readiness Weblog. You can find other posts in this series in the “Be ready now” category. This week’s theme: Planning Immediate: Discuss and write out plans for such emergencies […] Continue reading

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Readiness: When will you be ready?

If an emergency were to happen today, what would you do? What if the power went out? What if you could not buy gas or groceries? What is your plan? We live in unsettled times. Riots aren’t just for the Middle East anymore. Financial uncertainty, inflation, and shortages of critical goods are spreading. History tells […] Continue reading

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Readiness: The looming currency collapse

UPDATE: For those who find the linked video too painful (that is badly done) to watch, if you browse away from it, then click “Stay on this page” from the resulting pop-up” it will take you to a transcript of the video. I’m not much for investment research firms for the most part, so I […] Continue reading

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Readiness: Immediate readiness

The simplest part of immediate readiness is assembling a readiness kit. The government website Ready.gov has a good list for a basic kit, and a quick Google search can reveal hundreds of variations on the theme. That said, everyone’s kit is going to contain different things based on each person’s views, approach, and the kind of changes […] Continue reading

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Readiness: An aside: who the hell is Dennis L Hitzeman and why is he lecturing me?

At some point, someone is going to ask who the hell I am and why I think I can lecture other people on readiness. Frankly, I’m nobody more important than anyone else. My readiness experience is average and some of my qualifications are tenuous at best. A lot of what I am repeating here, I have learned […] Continue reading

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