Are you prepared?!

Are you prepared?!
Nobody expects it to happen… We walk around thinking that it couldn’t happen to us. We’re different right?! That stuff happens to OTHER people right?!


We stay in "good” neighborhoods and avoid places with “bad” activity going on… We stay AWAY from the darkness and potential threats. That something that just happens on television! Or so we think in our minds….


“I’m a good person! Nothing bad will happen to me right? As long as I just mind my own business I’ll be ok!” That’s what we tell ourselves but REALLY?!


I learned as an Eagle Scout to ALWAYS be prepared! I take that motto SERIOUSLY! DON’T think that just because it hasn’t happened yet that it won’t…


After the 20 year anniversary of 9/11/01 on Saturday, it got me thinking about MY OWN accident… NOBODY can prepare for EVERY situation but there’s one step that I KNOW saved my life and probably helped MANY of the survivors in the towers!


I had been training for an Ironman triathlon so I had an abundance of strength and endurance that I had built up. Doing over 100 flights of stairs also takes MASSIVE endurance…


I probably wouldn’t have survived MY accident had I not been in such great shape. I don’t think their would have been as many survivors if the first responders hadn’t been in great shape as well.


So what’s the point of saying all of this?! We may not be able to prepare for SPECIFIC incidents BUT, by training our body, mind, and spirit we CAN endure a heck of a lot. Comment YOUR thoughts and let’s talk?