End-of-Year Prepper Evaluation

Are you ready for a crisis? In this featured post from The Survival Mom, she explains how to assess your overall level of readiness in an end-of-year prepper evaluation. Improve future planning and identify any past mistakes by following this guide. ~ The Editors

One of the best ways to ensure you’re on track to meeting goals is to occasionally measure and review your progress. Conducting a prepper evaluation helps you see whether you’re on track to reaching your preparedness goals.

Why should I perform a prepper evaluation?

Good question. The purpose of conducting a prepper evaluation is to assess your overall level of readiness in the past twelve months. When you know where you stood strong when a crisis hit and also know your weakest areas, you’ll be ready to plan and prepare for the upcoming year.

How will I benefit from a prepper assessment?

You may discover additional ways you benefit from performing an evaluation like this, but here are four key ones:

• It’s motivating. Sometimes in the daily slog we forget what we’ve accomplished. Stopping to review reminds us of the progress we’ve made so far.
• It identifies mistakes. Mistakes are opportunities to learn. But only if you stop long enough to see what they can teach you. It’s not just the identification of missteps that’s helpful, you see. It’s that you now have a chance to correct them. And hopefully not repeat them.
• It identifies successes. What worked well and why?
• It improves future planning. Put it all together and you create a game plan for moving forward that is more effective and more efficient.

How often should I do a prepper evaluation?

This is an annual assessment. The results guide your short-term and long-term goal setting for the upcoming year. However, feel free to revisit this assessment whenever you like. It may be particularly valuable following a major event, like a winter blizzard or a hurricane.

How do I perform a prepping assessment?

Basically, you’re going to be thinking about these two questions:

1. What emergencies and crises did you face that you were prepared for?
2. What events were you not prepared for?

Continue reading about how to conduct your end-of-year prepper evaluation from The Survival Mom.

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