Why Your "Beans and Bullets" Won't Save You From the End of the World

I'm going to tap into old military training where I'll use the acronym PACE.

PACE stands for Primary Plans, Alternate Plans, Contingency Plans, and emergency plans.

This is how I'm wired.

And so no matter what I am really doing in life, if it's anything big or worth doing, I typically have my primary plan.

This is what I'm going to do.

This is the general idea.

What if something changes, though? Well, then my primary plan may shift into an alternate plan.

And then let's say both of those things go to pot.

Well, whoa, now I need a contingency plan.

Big things have changed, and so the trajectory that should have happened didn't happen, and I'm going to have to fork off in a different direction.

And so now what's my contingency plan? And then what if everything fails? Well, emergency plan then.

And so I like to layer my thinking in terms of primary, alternate, contingency, and emergency.

And through that acronym, I've got different stuff that we can fill in.

So we will get started.

Quick note on preparation in general, though.

This is a modified Pascal's Wager applied from the theology world into just preparation.

If you are prepared for upcoming disaster and disaster doesn't happen, well, at least you get peace of mind in the present, but nothing really changes for you.

You you plan for something didn't happen.

You're OK.

You could still be sitting pretty.

However, if you didn't plan and disaster overtook you, well, now you're in really, really bad trouble.

And so the cost of planning is very, very small.

Now, you could you could plan in a really stupid way and mortgage out your house to buy nothing but food storage preps and then your family goes into bankruptcy.

And so that would be an example of preparation fail.

But you guys got the spirit of what I'm saying.