March Challenge #10 Skills

You may have none of the aforementioned items (money, a house, a security system, a BOB, etc) yet you can still survive a disaster if you have skills.  In fact, I've met numerous people (generally immigrants and refugees) who have had to flee their countries, their families, basically everything they had ever known, with only the clothes on their back. Yet they did survive.

Many had never been to a city before, many did not read or write, but what the majority of these people had in common was that they were intelligent and clever.  Plus they had skills.  Granted their only skills may have been how to plant rice or how to harvest coffee but they could quickly assimilate information, had good people skills, and reasoned things out--even things that they did not fully understand.

You will be in a much better position to survive a disaster if you develop skills.  The wider your range of skills, the better, of course.  If you don't know where to start, consider these ideas:

• 100 Skills Every Man Should Know
• 25 Skills Every Man Should Know
• 50 Things Every Man Should Know
• 32 Skills Every Man Should Know
• 54 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
• 50 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
• Boy Scout Merit Badge List