Ferfals 5 rings Ring 1

http://ferfal.blogspot.com/2010/04/five-circles-of-preparedness.html

1)The 1st circle refers to your head, your knowledge and mindset. The knowledge being the set of tools, the software you use to deal with different situations.

I keep working on my head and the heads of my immediate and extended family. We constantly work on skills, obviously we can always use improvement.

We have quite a diversity of skills in our toolkit, mostly due to the number of people in our family.
I am encouraging the boys to go into careers that will be useful in just about any situation. One of the boys wants to go into the medical field, his plan is to get his nursing degree and then go become a vet.

I already have one boy who is a marine who is a communications specialist.
The youngest wants to go into EOD in the Navy.

The girl is currently getting her mathematics degree and is planning on teaching high school math.

My wife is a great homemaker and is improving her food storage skills, and has always been very good at pre electronic food preparation.

Also we are working to bring the family closer together. Once we have managed to accomplished this, we will be able to add my Sister an avid prepper, my ex-wife and her long time boyfriend who has been a student of the martial arts and has been a close friend for decades. My other sister already lives on a 20 acre lot in Washington state, although they are far from the rest of us they have been practicing their skills for several years now and have done very well for themselves.