Are You Prepared for World War III ( 3) ? 12 Ways to Prepare and Stay Resilient

In today's uncertain global climate, discussions surrounding the possibility of another world war have become more prevalent. While none of us hope for such devastating events, it is crucial to be prepared both mentally and practically. This article will provide essential guidance on how individuals can prepare themselves financially, mentally, and emotionally to cope with the potential challenges of a new world war.

1. Educate Yourself:
Stay informed about past and current geopolitical events to understand the factors that may contribute to a global conflict. This knowledge will empower you to make informed decisions.

2. Formulate a Financial Plan:
Assess your financial situation and create a solid emergency fund. Reduce unnecessary expenditures, increase savings, and ensure you have a backup plan to sustain yourself and your loved ones during uncertain times.

3. Diversify Your Investments:
Spread your investments across various asset classes to minimize risks from market fluctuations resulting from war or geopolitical tensions. Diversification can help safeguard your financial stability.

4. Develop a Support Network:
Nurture connections with family, friends, and community members who may share similar concerns. Building a supportive network can provide emotional reassurance and foster collective problem-solving.

5. Enhance Mental Resilience:
Engage in activities that build mental resilience in stress reduction techniques. These practices can help you maintain a positive mindset and deal with anxiety during challenging times.

6. Stay Physically Active:
Physical fitness is crucial for maintaining overall well-being. Regular exercise not only keeps you physically healthy but also provides endorphins that help regulate mood and reduce stress.

7. Plan for Emotional Support:
Develop strategies to manage anxiety and stress. Seek professional help if needed, and create a plan for accessing support services during times of crisis, such as counseling or therapy.

8. Stock Essential Supplies:
Create a comprehensive emergency supply kit that includes food, water, medication, and other essential items. This will enable you to sustain yourself and your family during a potential crisis situation.

9. Acquire Basic Survival Skills:
Learn basic survival skills such as first aid, self-defense tactics, and obtaining clean water and food. These skills can be valuable in case of heightened tensions or conflicts.

10. Maintain an Open Dialogue:
Encourage open discussions with family members about the potential of a world war. Ensuring everyone is aware of the situation can foster a sense of preparedness and collaboration.

11. Establish Communication Channels:
Designate a safe meeting place or develop a communication plan to ensure your loved ones can reach each other in case of communication disruptions.
12. Medical Emergency Plan:
Have your medical wishes written down and in a legally binding form, if possible, in case you become incapacitated. Also, ensure that your burial wishes are expressed clearly in writing.

While we hope for a peaceful world, it is essential to be prepared for uncertain times. By implementing these twelve strategies, you can enhance your preparedness for a potential World War III (3) , both financially and mentally. Remember, proactive planning and a supportive network will help you navigate the challenges and stay resilient under any circumstances.



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Episode Transcript

(00:01):
Hey, what's going on you guys? This is Joseph Bonner and welcome to
a very special show. I wannawelcome everyone back to a new season of
The Joseph Bonner Show. And whetheryou're listening to this podcast on The Joseph
Bonner Show or on one of ourpartner platforms, give you a nice,
warm welcome. Now today we aregonna be talking about a very sensitive subject,

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and that is are you prepared forWorld War three? Twelve ways to
prepare and stay resilient Now. Intoday's global climate, discussings surrounding a possible
world war has become more prevalent.Now. While none of us hope for

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such devastating events, it's definitely crucialthat we prepare both mentally and practically.
So this particular podcast will provide someessential guidance on how individuals and families can
prepare themselves financially, mentally, emotionally, as well as other ways to address

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potential challenges of a new world war. So let's go ahead and jump into
point number one, and that isto educate yourself. It's important that you
stay informed about past and current geopoliticalevents to understand the factors that may contribute

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to global conflict. Now, thisknowledge will empower you to make informed decisions.
For example, if you happen tolive in a particular region that is
densely populated with military activities and operations, or an extremely unsettled political environment,

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these may not be idealistic areas toreside in in the events or likelihood of
a world war. So the morethat you stay educated about what's happening around
you and understanding their geopolitical links andties to your own particular community, this
can help you to stay informed butalso at the same time make decisions that

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are best for you and your family. You may not live in a city,
or a community, or even acountry where you feel that it would
be safest to write out a worldwar, and so therefore, as a
family head, you would have tomake the decisions that you feel are in
the best interest of your family,whether that means to completely relocate countries,

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cities, residences, whatever the case, to keep you and your family safe
during a world war. Now thatleads quite appropriately into point number two,
and that is to formulate a financialplan. Now, assessing your financial situation
right now is important. Now,a lot of people are already tapped out

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financially because of the global economy.However, it is still important that you
do create a solid emergency fund now. This can help you to make some
of those difficult decisions that may berequired in the event of a world war.

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Now. In order for you tocreate a solid emergency fund, although
maybe not having a huge expendable incomeis you want to reduce unnecessary expenses to
increase your savings. So this couldbe like foregoing the coffee runs at particular

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restaurants or establishments. It could meanjust not ordering from Amazon as often or
every week. Whatever you can doto financially prepare yourself and your family for
an emergency, I encourage you todo now. You want to have backup
plans that can help you to besustained during the time of an emergency.

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A lot of some of you ownhomes and some of you own properties and
things of that nature, and soyou have to factor into the equation that
your home or your property may notbe the safest place to reside in during
a world war and you may haveto leave that behind. Are you prepared
financially to do that? Even ifyou're not able to sell your home or

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to sell your property, because duringa world war, chances are you're not
going to be in a position tosell anything. So this is one of
the reasons why you want to preparefinancially now. You may not be able
to bank on investments and properties oncea world war transpires, so you need
to be prepared now. And thatleads quite nicely into point number three,

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and that is to diversify your investmentsand diversify your income. Now, I
say diversify your investments, but Isay that in a very real but also
practical way. It's like investing moneyduring a time of economic downturn may be
considered not wise. And so ifyou do decide to invest, you want

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to take a look at investments thatare not based on things that could go
south in the event of a war, are geopolitical tension, So you want
to take a look at investments thatwould not necessarily be negatively impacted by a
war. Second, you want todiversify your income. So if right now

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you only have one source of incomein the case of a war, are
a global catastrophe, companies let peoplego. We saw that during COVID people
don't always have their company as abackup and so if one thing COVID taught
us about the need to diversify income, it's that, So start doing that

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now, so that in the eventthat something does transpire, you and your
family are not completely destitute. Andthese are decisions that you can make right
now to prepare for the likelihood ofa global conflict. Let's go ahead and
move on to point number four.Point number four and five may kind of

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sound a similar, but it isa little different. So let me go
ahead and get into point number four. Develop a support network. Now.
Support network could include but it doesn'thave to. It could include family,
it could include friends, it couldinclude community members, it could include neighbors.
Are just people who share similar concernsor interest as you. The purpose

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of a support network is it canprovide you with emotional reassurance and can also
help you foster collective problem solving strategies. So, for example, if you
have a network that shares a similarexperience or shares a similar vision as you
during political and economic downturns, theseindividuals can prove to be a source of

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comfort and encouragement, as well ashelping you to strategize and make appropriate decisions
that are not always easy to makeon our own. So having a support
network is less about maybe being soemotionally tied with these individuals and more about
making sure that our vision and ourpurposes in life are aligned. So that

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is a support network, because youcan have family and friends right who are
not perfectly aligned with your vision oflife and where you're headed, and so
they may not necessarily qualify as asupport network. So this is why there's
a difference in regards to especially preparingfor a global catastrophe. Now let's go

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to move on to point number five, and that is enhancing your mental resilience.
It is important that you do engagein activities that build mental resilience and
help you to reduce stress. Someof these practices could be something as simple
as, you know, writing outyour thoughts and feelings, writing poetry.
It could be as simple as takingwalks in nature, watching a movie or

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watching things that make you laugh,having an emotional support animal or having emotional
support animals, something that helps youto enhance your mental resilience as you face
life uncertainties, because during a timeof global conflict, those life uncertainties will
intensify, meaning your mental resilience atthat time will also need to heighten.

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So if you can have things,peoples, and activities in place to help
you fortify that during those difficult times, you're going to be better prepared and
will off. Let's go on intopoint number six, and that's stay physically
active. Now, what does stayphysically active have to do with the World

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war. Well, we know thatstaying physically active is crucial for just maintaining
your overall well being. Right,regular exercise, regular physical activity provides you
with provide your body rather with endorphinsthat can help regulate your mood and help
reduce stress. So keep those endorphinsmoving by staying regular with exercise. And

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then also you're physically in a bettercondition to adjust to changing circumstances. You
may have to walk a lot,you may have to move a lot during
times of global catastrophe, and soif you're physically able in a physically better
situation, our condition to do thatobviously the best. Now, obviously we

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all have our different physical limits,and so we do the best that we
can within our own limits and besatisfied and happy with that. But those
things can help you prepare for aworld war, because you're going to be
moving probably a lot during those times, whether it be looking for resources or
just trying to stay safe. Okay, all right, let's go ahead and

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move on to point number seven,and that is you need to have a
plan for emotional support. Now,a plan for emotional support goes a little
bit further than building a support network, because a lot of individuals may need
professional help to plan for their emotionalsupport because they get professional help. Now,

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So making sure that you do haveaccess to your crisis numbers, your
counselor your therapist, whether it beby phone, online, any capacity,
because keep in mind your therapists andyour counselor they're going to also be dealing
with the same world war, soyou do got to also maybe adjust your

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expectations and how much you're going tobe able to rely on them, however,
but still having your plan in placeso that you're able to help manage
the stress and anxieties created by aworld war on top of any past or
present trauma you may be dealing with, if that makes any sense. All

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right, so let's go ahead andmove on to point number eight, and
that is stockpiling essential supplies. Nowwe say stockpiling essential supplies, but we
don't mean over stockpiling. So youwant to have a comprehensive emergency supply kit.
Make sure that it includes food,water, medication, and other essentials
that can last you, if notweeks, months. This will enable you

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to sustain yourself and your family duringa potential crisis. So, for example,
about a year or two back,I interviewed a family who was fleeing
or who was in the process offleeing Ukraine because of the unexpected war that
took place there. And the family, although they were living in an apartment,

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they had to move down from theirapartment unit to the to the parking
structure because it was a lot safefront of the parking structure. And you
know, they had their sleeping bag, you know, they had their food,
they had they had a little bitof resources, you know, and
their biggest goal was let's get outof this parking structure and let's get to
a safe zone. And eventually,about a month later, the family did
make it to their safe zone,but it took about a month for them

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to get out of there. Soat least having an emergency kit that can
last you at least a good thirtydays might help you to be able to
ride out any catastrophe, any difficultiesuntil you're able to get to a safe
place. And then also keep inmind too that you're not going to be
alone in a situation, so youmay want to have a little bit extra

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just for individuals who maybe didn't prepareas well. Maybe have a little extra
to share. Why not, youknow, forge some friendships along the way,
which can also serve as a protectionduring a world war and again stressful
times. Now that's going to actuallymove nicely in the point number nine about
having friends, because you do wantto acquire some basic survival skills. Basic

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revival skills is like first aid.If you don't know CPR, you need
to learn it. If you don'tknow basic first aids skills, you need
to learn them. Whether you gotto go into a little training session,
whether you gotta learn online, somethingthat's going to help you to prepare at
least fix wounds, bandage, brokenor dislocated injuries. Something simple. Right.

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Also, and I'm not gonna I'mgonna say this, because it's important,
you need to have some self defensetactics. Now, you don't necessarily
need to get a self defense trainingcourse, but you do need to be
prepared to defend yourself, learn howto take a punch, and learn how
to give a punch. Let's bereal, it is what it is because
sometimes when things happen, community getsa little aggressive. People get a little

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aggressive, sometimes crazy. The bestresponse to crazy is crazier. So making
sure and to keep yourself safe.So you can't always be nice and kind
and smile at everybody, especially duringdifficult times like that, You're going to
have to develop a little edge aboutyourself. So making sure that you're doing
that, so acquire those basic survivalskills. Being nice all the time is

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not going to always be safe foryou, But also being a jerk isn't
always going to be safe, Soyou need to be able to learn that
fine balance right. Also, youwant to make sure that you know how
to obtain clean water and food.In the event that you know the markets
are down, stores are down,you may have to get water from a
creek. Do you know how todo you know how to make a fire
so that you can always boil thewater so that it's safe to drink.

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Do you know how to find?You know things in a forest that won't
poison you and kill you? Basicsurvival still skills things that you can learn
literally like in the next fifteen days. So, but these skills can be
very valuable in case of height intentionsand conflict to keep you and your family
safe. Again, these aren't crazyskills. These are these aren't skills that
are ever going to acquire, youknow, to do years of training.

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You can learn these things pretty quickly, and but they could be life saving
in the time of a global conflict. Right, let's go ahead and move
on to point number ten, andthat is maintaining open dialogue. Encourage everyone
in your family and in your networkto speak openly and honestly, making sure
that everyone is fully aware of thesituation as best they need to be aware.

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Speaking of our children specifically, sothat we can foster in our family
a sense of preparedness, collaboration,and safety. If we have children,
our children do need to understand toa degree what's happening, and they need
to also understand and be prepared incase something happens and they get separated from
us. They need to know howto be safe, even if it's just
them. So we need to makesure that our families are prepared for that.

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And to do that in an effectiveway. We have to communicate.
I know those are hard conversations tohave, but these are conversations you want
to have before things start kicking offand not after all. Right, let's
go on into point number eleven,and that is establishing communication channels. The
reality is is that sometimes during war, internets and phone services and electricity,

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these things are not existent. Arethey are altered, or they are impacted
in some way. So you needto have a more reliable communication network set
up with your family. For example, you can say, hey, if
in the case of an emergency,we are all going to meet up twenty
four hours after the emergency at thisparticular location, so everybody in your family

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or your network knows this is alocation we're meeting at twenty four hours after
a tragedy happens, and that givesyou guys a point of reference that you
guys can all meet together, maybemore than twenty four hours and maybe a
different location, maybe similar close orif your family lives far away, you
may be like, okay, well, as soon as I you know,

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as soon as I can get toa place where I can call you or
leave a message on social media,I will If you don't hear from me.
That means I maybe not, youknow, find some kind of communication
plan that works for your family ina channel that allows you guys to stay
in touch at least understand what's goingon relatively even if all communication platforms using
modern technology go down. Okay,that's extremely important. We're gonna go ahead

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and hit number twelve. Number twelve, I think is it's not easy to
talk about just because a lot ofus don't want to think about this happening.
But I do want to make surethat it's said. You want to
have a medical emergency plan. Now, have your medical wishes written down in
a legally binding form if possible,in case you become incapacitated. Also ensure

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that your burial wishes are expressed clearlyin writing. Now. The reason why
we want to make sure that wehave our medical decisions down in writing is
because some of us have allergies,and if we get certain medications while someone's
trying to stay their life, itcould actually kill us. That should all
be written down in writing. Someof us may not want our life prolonged
if we happen to be on aventilation machine. That needs to be expressed

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clearly in writing before those emergencs totranspire. Also, if in the event
we lose our lives, we wantto make sure that our burial wishes are
expressed. Now, keep in mind, it could be a you know,
a world war, so we don'twant to have elaborate wishes. It could
be just cremating my body and throwthe ashes somewhere. I mean, even
something as simple as that. Ifour wishes are expressed clearly uariety, it

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could definitely take the stress off ourfamily and friends who are already who are
still dealing with the world war,so that they don't have to have too
much extra stress surrounding maybe our potentialdemise. So if we can have that
down in writing ahead of time andkeep that on our person while we're traveling,
it's idealistic. Unfortunately, these arethings that we definitely want to prepare

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for now. Even while I wasgoing through this list, you guys,
there are a few things that Iwant to just go back and review to
make sure that I have together myselfpersonally, because I happen to be out
of the country right now, andso for me, my situations look looks
a little bit different. But forthose of you guys who happen to be
residing in your in your home countriesright now, definitely, and wherever you

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are in the world, all thesesuggestions you want to implement as soon as
possible. Now, while we hopefor a peaceful world, we do realize
the reality is that preparing for certainuncertain times is crucial. Implemating these twelve
strategies, you're going to be ableto enhance your preparedness for a potential world
war financially, mentally, and remember, proactive planning and having a support network

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is going to help you navigate thechallenges and stay resilient under any circumstances.
Now, I wish you all well, health, safety and love, but
let's stay prepared because the reality ofa conflict happening, even in our particular
region is intensifying as the weeks transpire, and it's better to be safe than

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sorry. As the saying goes,it's better to be prepared than not prepared.
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