Preparedness Principles - A Prepper Video Training Library.

(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.)

Bobbert’s Principle #5 – Principles are never my personal possession

I try daily to practice the principles regularly promoted on Sundays as being the right way to conduct my life, and as to how I should treat others, and what to teach my family, But I am also fully aware that these fundamental principles are not owned by any belief system.

We can confidently look to any, and every, good and worthy example for enlightenment and information. Additionally, as preppers / leaders, we must never forget that “Being Wrong Does Not Make Them Bad“ and that “Being Right Does Not Make Us Good.” It’s a principle to consider when you are ready to condemn the opposition.

Yes, I have tried to put my personal experiences into our dire topic of finding and adopting principles, in the sincere hope that you might be more likely to develop your personal principles, and be better able to survive the highly-probable financial and societal collapse. A collapse that very soon may well be generated by a failure of the global fiat currency financial systems, and then will surely be quickly followed by the cascading failures of power, communications, food distribution, travel infrastructure, fire protection, and police systems. Historically, all of them have fallen in the past!

Towards this enablement effort, I am simply documenting for you what we have already done in our home for ourselves, our family, friends, and our small 600-resident rural community. I do a free monthly prepper article for our newsletter. What you are reading here is simply Bobbert talking with you about us, and about what we have done for ourselves.

As an experienced and principled prepper family, we highly value the basic concept of “Proper Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance.”

A Prepper Video Training Library

I have created a computer folder titled Prepper Training Videos. These are the types of groups I have chosen to download. I did buy an inexpensive 4TB external hard drive for prepper videos and data items. Your video group choices should reflect your current concerns and knowledge / ability levels, as does ours. Your choices will be guided by your principles and family / group experiences and needs.

Your small town / group security
Decide in advance – When & why to kill”
2021 Financials / Do It Now
Success after The Collapse
Grid Down Communications Plus
Guerilla Warfare Principles & Tactics
Used Correctly – Herbs Are Medicined
Preppers Proven Principles of Leadership
Preppers Reacting To Civil Disturbances

We have in that folder 160+ varying length youtube free videos downloaded from the internet. And to answer your obvious immediate question, no, I have not yet viewed the full length of all of them. That delightful chore comes later when I have time and feel a specific topic video is needed right now. When I am viewing a “training video” I always have a pad of paper and multiple pencils at hand. I use pencils, not pens, due to their mistake correction ability created by the ever-ready erasers. The expected next questions are: #1 How did I choose these specific videos? #2 How did I download them? #3 Was it easy?

Bobbert’s Answer #1. I used the simple parameters of a minimum length of 13+ minutes and my gut responses to the titles. Learn to trust your hunches / inspirations. I entered the topic names in the search section of the free YouTube website and modified that topic name repeatedly as I progressed through the hugely too many websites available.

Bobbert’s Answer 2. I installed one of the many free applications enabling free download / conversion ability for my specific computer system parameters. My current choice is “CLIPGRAB FOR MAC”, and it is available for both PCs and Macs. And yes it is free.

Bobbert’s Answer 3, Easy?- Yes, sorta! I slowly found this methodology to be easy after about 8+ years of frustrating experiences. Good luck! It is important that you choose a free download app that will download multiple videos at the same time easily, and that will function without constant oversight. Read the app’s specific data in advance so as to not waste your time needlessly.

I found that the best / fastest time to let the computer (not me personally) do the actual work is often during the very late night hours when fewer area net users are slowing down the time needed to download. My usual practice to locate and “copy the URL links to a separate folder as a large group when I have time, and then wait until the end of a day, and only at that time do I actually start the process, and see the previous night’s computer effort results in the morning. This process has been tempered by the long-proven principle of prioritizing my tasks according to my needs and my assets and my timing, and sometimes others’ needs.

I prefer to use DUCKDUCKGO.COM for a search engine due to my concerns about privacy matters and the possible selling of my inquiry data to advertisers by big tech. It seems to be just as good as any of the others, many of which I have looked into. A possible search phrase you can use to search for an app you like it is: “freeware youtube download app”, One downloader app website (there are many) that I have used is:

https://www.guru99.com/best-free-youtube-downloader.html

Copy the video titles you have chosen to save onto the search box of the YouTube,Com website. Go to that website and then copy the site’s URL link onto your downloader application and check “save to the desktop” for later usage and retention. Remember that these early choices are preliminary and may not turn out to be worthwhile. Make those decisions much later, Be quick to go slow.

Bobbert’s Group #1 contents – Small Town Security – 8 videos

Bobbert’s Group #2 contents – ADVANCE DECISION – WHEN TO KILL- 8 VIDEOS

Bobbert’s Group # 3 contents – 2021 FINANCIALS – 30 videos

Bobbert’s Group # 4 contents – After The Collapse – 8 Videos

Bobbert’s Group # 5 contents – Grid Down Commo – 17 videos

Bobbert’s Group # 6 contents – Guerrilla Warfare – 4 videos

Bobbert’s Group # 7 contents – Herbs Can Be Our Medicines – 11 videos

Bobbert’s Group # 8 contents – Preparedness Leadership – 10 videos

Bobbert’s Group # 9 contents -Preppers / Civil Disturbances – 13 videos

Interpersonal Communications Challenges

From Old Bobbert’s personal & professional experience, here are some interpersonal communications challenges for you to consider:

“Whoever talks the most usually pays the most – gets the least.”
“Sometimes the best response is just silence.”
“Asking questions usually controls the direction of a conversation.”
“How do I do the this?* is much better than asking “Can I do this?“
“Are you allowed to tell me who is authorized to help me do this?”
Why are the “gray men” safer in public than are most of us preppers and patriots?
“Are there any questions that I forgot to ask that you feel are important?”

Note that the last question on that list shows respect and often gets immediate and very positive results.