PTR Ep 514 Goal Setting 2026 - The Prepper's Way - Prepper Talk Radio

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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So today we're going to talk about goals and goals
for twenty twenty six. We did do a whole setting
of goals for twenty twenty five. I should have brought
those up. I didn't even totally. I bet Shane's got
his though this year. But we don't have Scott with
us tonight. I can't remember what he told us. He

(00:47):
did tell us he was going to be gone, but
I can't remember why. I'm sure some kind of family
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to be here tonight. Shane. How are you doing? How
is your day?

Speaker 2 (03:08):
It was just just fine, nothing spectacular, but a nice
chill day, which doesn't happen all the time. So but
you know, like you started out with, looking back, that's
the first thing on my list, you know, looking back
at the previous year, going over your goals, see what
you hit and what you didn't. And you know, I

(03:28):
did look over them. I didn't compile them my goal setting.
I guess habits are I say goals almost every day,
you know, and of course that has to do with
work as well, but personal goals and so my goals
are kind of spread all over the place in different

(03:48):
notebooks and such. That's something I should probably work on
is and actually what I started to write them out
in one particular notebook for this next year. But yeah,
looking back, and you know, Mike, congratulate you for for
meeting your I don't know if you call it the
ultimate goal, but it's one of my ultimate goals of
retirement here is in the next couple of years, hopefully

(04:08):
for myself, but at the end of this year for Mike.
And that's that's that's freaking awesome, very very cool. Uh.
But then yeah, then looking forward, and and I've got
some particular things that I go through strategy, I guess
you could say it for setting goals, and you know,
and like the way Scott labeled this is you know,

(04:29):
goal setting for the preppers, way right, and I believe
there's a way to set it. Set goals for business,
you know in Paris, and I are going to talk
about a lot of different categories you know, uh from
from work, financial, emotional, and so on and so forth,
different types of goals and uh ways to set your

(04:50):
goals for the different categories uh in life and you know,
prepping for me is you know, his life. So most
of my goals honestly are about preparedness and prepping in
the future and family and so forth. And so my twist,
my particular take on this is definitely focused on being
a prepper and making goals for preparedness.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, I actually have my goals from twenty twenty four,
but I've just been looking for my goals for twenty
twenty five just to see if I can find out
where they went. Clearly, I did a wonderful job of
you know, staying on track with my twenty twenty five goals.
If I don't even know where they are in my

(05:35):
in my drive here, you know what, maybe I did
it on because I'm searching right now in my Google drive.
That's usually where I do it, but sometimes I do
my goals. I wonder if I did it in word
this year.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
You know, I carry I have notebooks, and that's the
way I do it. I don't usually do it on
my computer, but I do review those pretty much every Sunday,
going back through and it's more of a list of
to dos that gets circulated, that gets recycled and gets
reframed and changed. I changed my goals all the time. There.

(06:09):
I'm very flexible with my goals and for some things, obviously,
there are long, longer term goals that I'm not flexible
with that. I think most of these, you know, we
talk about smart goals, and with those types of you know,
long term goals, I really stick to the you know,
the time bound goals or where you can measure your progress.

(06:33):
But I think for a lot of my personal goals,
most of them are are very short term, and that
way I can see progress from day to day, week
to week, month to month, and so I don't really
get discouraged, and I, you know, make changes on the fly.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
That's awesome. I just like, you know, I was. I've
read the book Atomic Habits recently. I actually I read
it the second time I just feel like some of these.
I read a book and it just really is so good,
and then I just sometimes will move on to the
next book, and then I realized, you know what, why
keep searching for wisdom in the next book if I

(07:11):
didn't really fully address the wisdom in the last book
and reading something once for me is not enough, I
need to read it a couple of times. And one
of the things that he talks about in there, yeah,
of course he says that, you know, thumbs up, goal
setting is good. But one of the things he says
that the real key to success in life isn't necessarily
setting goals, but it's also creating a plan to achieve

(07:33):
those goals. But it's more importantly it's who are you
or who do you need to be? What habits do
you need to have in order for you to be
able to achieve the goals. Naturally, a lot of times
we set goals and then we try to change our
identity or change ourselves to fit though you know, like,
oh my gosh, I want to be For example, traditional

(07:54):
goal first of the year, get out of debt, or
lose a bunch of way jim So, one of the
things that he talks about is is that's a great
goal to have, and you can create a plan to
do that, But if you don't change your habits around
your how you believe and your beliefs, you're not going
to as no matter how good of a plan you
have and or how you know worthy of a goal

(08:17):
you might have, it's going to be really hard for
you to accomplish that goal and follow the plan. And
so he talks a lot about developing the habits and
the beliefs. So, for example, if you wanted to lose
weight in the first of the year, you should consider
you should consider redefining your identity as a person of
maybe maybe you want to say, you know what, I'm
an athlete or I'm a I'm a healthy person. What

(08:39):
would a healthy person do in this situation where they
eat the cake or would they refrain from the cake?
And of course, if it's at a birthday, you know
you can indulge. But if it's like just a random
weekday and you're like, oh, I got that cake right there,
you know a healthy person want to do an athletic
person wouldn't do that. So you you develop the habits
and the beliefs around what is it what would a
healthy person do? What would an athletic person do? What

(09:00):
would a The other part of it for financial stuff
is that you know what would a what would if
I The reason why I'm in debt is because the
habits I've had in the past and the goals. You know,
you may have a goal to get out of debt. Well,
that's great, that's a worthy goal. And you might have
a plan where you're like, Okay, I'll do the snowball method,
I'll do the avalanche method, I'll do whatever method, and
I'll put this much money toward it every month, and

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you know we'll get it done. Well, that's great, But
what got you into debt in the first place? What
you know? If you if you have a habit of overspending,
or maybe you're you're willing to give into a temptation.
I think that it's really important to recognize that in
setting goals, you have to also think about who you
are as a person and what got you to the
place where you are, and then think about, Okay, I

(09:45):
might need to change. In setting your goals for the future,
you want to set realistic goals for yourself, but also
realistic under the auspice of who am I and who
do I want to be? And are these the goals
that will help me get there?

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah? Yeah, absolutely, and I really like that. I think
the thing that comes to mind is, I think, for
a time, and maybe it still is popular, but the
vision boards, right for for quite a while putting a
vision board up on your wall of what you wanted
to it seemed like a lot of them that I
saw were about, Okay, I want this car, I want
this house, this is what I want to achieve, I

(10:21):
want to financially, this is where I want to be. Uh.
And of course there's some lifestyle obviously things within the
vision boards you can put up, but like you said,
that vision needs to match who you are and not well,
let me restate that we're all. I'm trying to become
a better person, no doubt, absolutely trying to trying to change.

(10:42):
But uh, is there with like a vision boarder, is
there some outside pressure to become or to have things
to make you popular or to fit in or to
you know if it's is it focused around possessions or
is it focused around the more important thing? It's like
when I think about prepping, Yes, yes, we're gear heads. No, absolutely,

(11:04):
And there's you've got to have a lot of stuff.
But we don't have the stuff just to have stuff. Right,
If it's a car, a big house, it's you know,
it kind of has other purposes. If you have a
huge family, okay, that's one thing, right, But to have
a Lamborghini on your vision board, that doesn't quite meet
the prepper theme. If you know what I'm you know,
trying to say, here is and that vision board can

(11:26):
I think can be helpful? Helpful? I know people have
shared their stories of where I had this on my
vision board. I took the vision board away, I didn't
look at it, and you know, several years later I
came back to look at my vision board and lo
and behold, I have the car, the house and everything
that's on that vision board.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Right.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Okay, that's that's great and all. But if it's not,
in my opinion, if it's not grounded in real values,
you know, especially when it comes to prepping. I mean,
we do this not just I do this not just
for myself, but for my family, for those in my
family who aren't awake, you know, who don't see what

(12:03):
I see. And and that's a whole nother conversation. But
I think, like you're saying, paris is you don't want
to change to become someone else's goals, right, community that
communicating that properly.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
But yeah, let me show you this. This is kind
of the This is kind of the idea about smart goals.
Is we talked about earlier? What is a smart goal?
Of course, you don't have a dumb goal, but you
also so smart as an acronym that stands for specific,
so you want to measure it. And then M S

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is for specific, M is for measurable, A is for achievable,
R is for realistic. You know, achievable could also be
attainable like whatever T is for timely or put a
time frame on it. So to give you an example,
you know I want to get out of debt, Well,
what does that mean? To be specific? I have five
thousand dollars on my credit card that I need to payoff. Okay,

(13:01):
that's specific. Five thousand dollars you need to pay off
on two credit cards. Let's say a measurable Okay, what
is the measurable goal? I want to pay off five
thousand dollars? Well, now you have you've got an exact
dollar amount that's specific and measurable. Is it achievable? Well,
if you're if you don't have a budget in place
where you have an extra or positive cash flow, probably
not achievable. The reason why are you in debt in

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the first place. Maybe you had a medical expense, maybe
you had an emergency, maybe you had something come up
that wasn't at was way out of your control. Man,
you lost your job. But if it's achievable, if you
can say, you know what, if I'm going to put
my head to it and I do it, I can
achieve it because I'm going to work through my budget.
I'm going to trim up my expenses, I'm going to
make sure I'm making some good income, and I'm going

(13:43):
to have some positive cash flow so I can put
towards that debt. That's achievable. Realistic Is it's totally realistic
to be able to pay off five thousand dollars a
debt unless you say the timeframe is by next by February,
unless you've got an extra five grand to coming in January,
You're not going to be able to pay that off
that fast. Not realistic. So let's say, for example, you
want to say Okay, in twenty twenty six, I got

(14:04):
five thousand on two cards that I want to pay off. Well,
if you have an extra four hundred bucks a month,
you can do it four hundred times twelve is for
forty eight hundred bucks. Throwing an extra two hundred every
once in a while, and voila. Your five grands paid off.
That was specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. You had
a timeframe by the end of the year. Those are
some idea. That's an example of how to use the

(14:25):
smart goal system. So in the prepper world, it might
be you know what, I have a very specific I
want to get. You know, here's an example of us
using the smart goals. I want to get more food storage.
What does that mean? More food storage? Is it okay?
I want to get three months of food storage for
each person in my family. That's a specific goal. Is
it measurable? Yes, because you know three months worth of

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food storage. Is it achievable? Well, let's see. You know,
do you have the cash flow for it, do you
have a plan to maybe able to get the money
together so that you can purchase that, or are you
going to do it the good old fashioned way? Where
you just add a little extra to your You can
go buy a freeze dried, you can go buy you know,
something specific that's packaged for that, or you can just say,
you know what, I'm going to put together a list

(15:08):
of everything that my family eats, and I'm going to
make sure I have three months worth of all of that,
and then your three month pantry is done, and you
just go buy a little extra every month, every week
at the grocery store where however often you go to
the grocery store. Totally achievable, totally realistic, and if you
do it within a time frame, you can say, well,
I want to do it before the zombies come. Well,
that's not very timeframe oriented. You got to have something

(15:28):
more specific. Okay, I want to do it in the
first six months of the year. I want to make
sure I have a month's worth of food. By the third, first, second,
third quarter, I want to have a second month, and
by the end of the year, I want to have
all three months to set aside time. That's perfect. That's
a smart goal, that's prepper oriented, prepper related, and so.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
That's that's just some example. That was actually my first
example a goal I set for myself already. And you know,
one thing I wanted to I guess bring up first
is don't wait, you know, don't put this off to
the first of the year. Whenever I think of a
goal and I think, well, I'll start this on Monday, No,
I'm just going to start it right now, you know,
I'm going to start it, you know, tomorrow morning, something
like that. Right. I don't see any reason to, you know,

(16:09):
to put it off, you know, for most goals in particular.
So my matching smart goal was for twenty twenty six,
I plan to double my food storage from one year
to two year for eight people. And I'm doing that
in just the basics, so like wheat, rice, oats, you know, honey,

(16:29):
those types of things, very basics in number ten cans.
And I also have to have a plan to create
the space for it as well. That's quite a bit
of space. Yeah, And I really at the moment, I
don't have anywhere to put it. But I do have
a plan to how I'm going to accomplish that, and
that is getting a shipping container actually and moving some

(16:52):
other supplies, other storages, storage items into that so I
can put this new food in my conditioned space. And
so for me, you know, I've already kind of budgeted
this out. It's it's really only a couple thousand dollars.
And uh, that's my main smart goal for next year

(17:12):
is too, is to double in long long self stable foods.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
So that's awesome, dude.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
I have a whole list as well for other shorter
term goals.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah. So one of the things we talked about that
in my family anyways, is what areas of your life
do you want to have a goal in? And so
we talk about, you know, financial goals. Business and financial
goals are kind of related work related goals, you Toah,
Mike just said that he had a goal to retire
at the end of this year and he nailed it.
And so that's a kind of a work for slash

(17:46):
financial goal. There's a lot that goes into his plannings
from here forward. Now that that's and that's because once
you hit a goal, it's it's like the mountain you know,
once you once you crest a mountain peak, you look
onto the range and you see, oh, there's more mountains,
you know. So it once you hit a goal, be
ready to set the next one. And maybe you need

(18:07):
and it's totally fine to take a break between goals
and to really really kind of relax. But the main goals.
I usually do goals in four or five areas. One
is business and financial, two is spiritual. And some of
the goals that I have spiritually speaking, and I'm not
talking about like, oh, I'm going to ascend to some
higher plane of you know, enlightenment or anything like that,
but just some goals, you know, for me, or like

(18:29):
how often I want to attempt to temple and how
often do I want to get to go to you know, church,
how often do I read my scriptures? And how often
am I going to do family things? Family stuff like that?
So I think that that's really and then there's intellectual
goals like what do I need to do to become
a better person intellectually and you know, philosophically, you know,

(18:50):
just with my mind. And then physical goals like what
do I want to accomplish, you know, do I want
to work out every day? My wife and I actually
just invested in a home sauna, and so we're going
to have a nice sauna in our home, and so
one of my goals would be to do that several
times a week. The company that we are affiliate with,
this health food company, they're going to do shortly, they're

(19:13):
coming out with a parasite cleanse. And that's a goal
that I have, is to do a parasite cleanse to
physically my health and physical goals to be healthy. And
so there's just some other things too. And one of
the goals that I have this next year is just
to really get to the point where I have some
serenity and some tranquility and some just I just want
to I don't I'm not you know, woo wu. I
don't want to be a zen master or anything like that,

(19:35):
but I just I want to be able to kind
of just sit back and say, you know what, I've
got things under control. I know, I know where my
fam I'm self reliant, I'm self sufficient. I've got if
if any emergency came at me, I'd be able to
do that. And I think Field Tech really uh said
something here that I really want to address as I
as I go through this thought process, if something happened

(19:58):
to you, would your family continue your prepping plan or
would they let it fade just fade away? And that's
a really good question because I was talking to my
wife about this recently. She's like, Paris, if something happened
to you, I don't even have our bank account log ins,
And I'm like, wow, you know, so there's some planning.
Part of my goals for this next year is to

(20:19):
make sure that everybody in my family knows what the
plans are and the goals are and that they can
carry them out. So if case I happened to have
something happen to me, everybody knows what to do and
what to do next. What's what I do find interesting, though,
feel tech, is that it's kind of and it's interesting

(20:40):
because my kids, who have grown and left the house
and they're on their own now, they will say things
to me like, hey, Dad, we're thinking about getting some
food storage. What do you think. I'm like, I didn't
even bring it up, Like they just know Dad's so
into it that they and I didn't really force it
down their throat or anything weird. I just it was
all cool, Hey Dad. They always know that if it's

(21:03):
the upstairs pantry is empty, they go down to the
downstairs pantry and they can refill the upstairs pountry. That's
just how my household has worked for the last four
years in this new since I moved to Utah, and
I think it's just been now ingrained in at least
the three youngest kids. Their whole lifestyle is now recognizing that, hey,
that's a good way to live, and it works, and

(21:24):
it's actually quite convenient and quite comfortable. And so I'm
hoping that my kids will at least carry on that.
Part of prepping is just always having those you know,
two or three in the in the basement, or two
or three extra of everything so that if something runs out,
they just they don't have to run to the store.
They can just run downstairs or run to another room
and just fill in the pantry. So that's just something

(21:47):
that I was thinking, Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Think that's a great question. And you know, and I
was thinking about that while you're chatting. As well as
my kids. You know that they do that as well.
And you know, we have a remote location as well,
and my kids, some of my old kids express interests
in the hey, I want to come help with the
greenhouse when you're putting that up, And so I think
to an extent it would continue on, but you know,

(22:09):
life gets in the way. I think without some serious dedication.
I think most everything would fall off, would fade away.
But I do have, you know, quite a few things
set in motion that you know, like like with a
trust and a will and so forth, and certain documents
that you know, I've got stashed in particular locations that

(22:31):
if anything were to happen to me, great, here's the process,
here's the procedure of how to move forward to hear
what I desire, what I desire of you with my family,
to continue on in what we're doing here. Right of course,
that's worst case, but I also wanted to go back
and touch on, you know, first looking back at at
your previous year's goals. And what I've come to realize

(22:53):
for myself is that many of my goals have gone
on from year to year to year. And that's really
because the priority is not the highest, right the it's
not entirely relevant, and life changes, things change, and so
I've been flexible. And yes, sometimes I see those goals. Man,
I've been had this on my list for four or

(23:15):
five years now, and I feel a little bit, you know,
a little bit sad and despondent about that. But but
I've also come to realize, you know, that is not
a really high priority goal and so I haven't made
the smart goals, uh with that particular that particular goal,
and so it's a it's a lower priority. Uh. There's
also what I call stretch goals, and I've I've done

(23:39):
this before and I was actually, you know, able to
hit that. You guys know that I have this this
particular property and that was one of my stretch goals
and that was definitely a smart goal, and it was
like Mike's Mike said here, he also commented that he
puts something on his his goals that was maybe seemingly
unachievable and and I don't know if you actually achieve that, Mike,

(24:02):
but I think that's a smart idea to do, is
is have at least one stretch goal, maybe not too
many because you don't want to overdo it or overwhelm yourself.
But have a stretch goal that if things fall together,
if you're willing to work hard enough, that you can
reach that goal and with some luck and with some
blessings as well, be able to reach those goals. But

(24:23):
also I'm still carrying those other other goals I haven't
hit forward in my next year, and again they're toward
the bottom of the list, and I'll make a list,
and I'll prioritize it, and I'll reprioritize it, and as
months go by, I'll reprioritize it because things change, and

(24:45):
you know, this is all about budgeting as well. There's
obviously a lot of budgeting in there, and medical expenses
come up, things come up, and priorities have to change.
And also just with experience in being out on the
land and getting the greenhouse up and then realizing, oh,
I need to do this first before that, and just

(25:07):
change making those changes on the fly, and not feeling
the need to say, no, I have to do this
first because that was my goal. I don't think that's important.
But also part of my goal setting process is making
a list of what I might expect in the next year,
in twenty twenty six, So it is a very much

(25:27):
doomsday list of all the things that are could potentially
happen in twenty six And to be honest, almost everything
I can think of is on the table for this
next year. So I'm keep that some things are very general,
some things are very specific. I know that doesn't mean
a whole lot, but as I go through my list

(25:47):
and of course, this has to do with what you're
seeing out there and what you expect might happen, what's
in the news, and so on and so forth about Okay,
I see this happening. How do I prepare for this event?
I see gold and silver taking their moonshot and I
don't have enough. How do I build that before it

(26:11):
goes becomes more unaffordable. So there's a lot of flexibility
that that has to happen. Okay, I have to put
bump this goal back to now try and reach this
other goal which is has bumped up in priority, like
I said, maybe like precious metals. Maybe, I mean that's
always important to me. But also having a goal set

(26:34):
for how much you want to have, like you say,
in savings, in gold and silver and in food storage,
whatever it might be, and then being able to be
realistic with yourself saying, Okay, I see I have more time.
I'm going to step this back and just very vary

(26:54):
the goals a little bit. And maybe it's more of
a checklist than a set of goals because it can
be flexible, you know, if that makes sense to you.
How how I go about my goal setting, and it's
it's constant it happens every almost every day.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Sometimes, well it sounds to me more like you live
via a plan than a goal. You know. One thing
that's cool about goals is that it kind of gives
you a target to shoot for, and if you don't
have a target to shoot for, it doesn't matter what
you're aiming at. Like, so the goal gives you something
to aim at. And then a plan is like how
are you going to live your life? And that goes

(27:30):
back to the thing that I talked about earlier about habits,
like what are your habits and beliefs? You know, for me,
it's I don't really need to set a goal anymore
to read my scriptures every day because it's so ingrained
in my daily life now that I just I can't
imagine not working out. I can't imagine not reading my scriptures.
I can't imagine not sitting down like every night before

(27:51):
I go to bed. I just now one of the
goals that I have is because my my nightly routine
is very varies widely based on just whatever it happens
that day. But I kind of want to set a
goal where every night at eight o'clock, I just hit
the stop button hard stop and then I start my

(28:12):
nightly routine. That way, I have more time to journal.
Because one of my goals is to journal. I want
to start journaling, and if I can journal a few
minutes before I start my readings, or maybe I can
read first and then journal afterwards. But I just there's
some things like that's one of the cool things about
Atomic Habits that says if you want to start a
new habit or have a new goal, stack it. One

(28:33):
of the one of the ways that he tells you
how to do it is stack it with a goal
or habit that you already do well so that it's
super easy. Like I already read every night, so it
would be super easy for me to just stack journaling
right after that, or on top of that, every time
I read, I want to I'll just take a few
notes about my thoughts on what I read or and
and maybe I only read, you know, I read several

(28:54):
I read several books at a time actually, and each
book has a different you know, subject and no matter.
So I can just make some notes about what I
thought and what I read and do that, and then
I can journal about my day after that. You know,
just one thing that once you start a thing, it's
easier to keep going. The hard part is getting it started.
And so some of the goals that I think are
available to us are easy to think about and want

(29:19):
to do, but then disciplining our habits and our lifestyle
to do that. I just read a book to finished
your reading, a book called by Dan Martell called Buy
Back Your Time. And in that book he talks about
several ways to have more time freedom and how to
really be more efficient with your time. And one of

(29:40):
the things he talks about is time blocking. I have
tried time blocking, and for some reason I just couldn't
get my head wrapped around it. And I think I
was doing it wrong because the way he explains it
in this book was way more effective. He says, don't
I used to What I would do is I time block?
You know, in the morning, I do this, you know,
early morning, I do this. Late morning, I do this.

(30:00):
Early afternoon, I do this late morning, late afternoon, I
do this. Evening, I do this, he says, Instead of
doing that, just what are you what are you really
good at? And just do that for the whole day,
and then the next day do something else you're like
or whatever, like planet where you're doing more and sometimes
during the day I have I'm really high and up
and ready to just conquer the world, and some there's

(30:20):
a couple points of the day where I'm man, I'm
just tired. And that's so the timeframes where you're really
energized that you should time block more of your important tasks.
The time when you're kind of just slugging through the
day and you're kind of a little bit more you know, uh,
just struggling to get some energy. Those are the times
when you either need to schedule your workout or or

(30:42):
schedule eating or something else where you can actually get
that energy, you know, curve back faster. And so I
thought that was something that I hadn't thought of before,
where it's just to block my day based on my
energy and also block my day based on what I'm
my zone of genius, Like I don't like you know,
sometimes I'll do thirty I'll do an hour block on

(31:03):
my business and then I'll have a break where I'll
be like, oh, let me check emails, and before i
know it, I'm on Instagram and Facebook scroll doom scrolling.
I'm like, how did I get here? No, you know,
so he's like, don't leave any time between things, just
go straight to the next thing. And I was like,
that's probably what I did wrong. I was just giving
myself a break and I wasn't working in my own
a genius. So there's I think part of goal setting

(31:25):
is also determining, like what do you really who do
you want to become, and who do you want to
be in twenty twenty six. Now I really like what
you said, Shane, because you talked about goals should be
a little bit you know, flexible. You know, for example,
I have a goal to have a certain dollar amount saved.
My wife and I are planning a trip, you know,

(31:45):
for her birth her fiftieth birthday, which is in a
couple of years, and so we're planning a nice trip,
and so we're putting inside money every month for that
to be able to hit that goal. But then I realized,
you know, and that's just an example of one financial goal.
But what I also realize is that twenty twenty I
don't know if you guys saw the World Economic Forum
or oh shoot, what the economist. The economist had their

(32:09):
projection for twenty twenty six, and of course the economist
is it's written for the elite, by the elite to
the elite, et cetera. And there's a bunch of weird
things on there about what they're planning for twenty twenty six. Now,
every year these things come out where they project the
next year, and we survived every one of them. So far,
so good. But this was a little bit odd about

(32:30):
how the economy. They have a bunch of graphs of
where the economy crashes and they rebuild this other. Anyways,
I'm just thinking maybe twenty twenty six is the year
where I do a little less in the stock market
and a little more in the silver and gold market.
And maybe another thing too that I just kind of
did a little count in my coffers a little bit,
and my wife and I were like really surprised when

(32:53):
the silver shot up. I kind of calculated how many
ounces I have and at the price it is now,
and I'm like, dang, I I'm grateful that I bought
the ounces of silver that I bought, and she's like,
let's buy more. I'm like, So that's why as I
reached out to Shane actually this last week and I
was like, Hey, Shane, where do you buy your silver?
What are some of the best prices right now, best
spot prices or pardon me not the spot price. Spot

(33:14):
price the same everywhere, but what's the best the best
premium premium Who has the best premiums right now? And
so I'm looking to buy some more silver, which is cool,
but you know, if if the economy changes your goal
to you know, put more money into your four to
one K, might be better to put some of that

(33:35):
money into silver or gold and get some more and
or get some more food storage. Because one thing that's
for sure is that if the stock market crashes, the
banks crash, energy goes out, you're always going to have
a need for food, and you're always going to have
a need for shelter and some of those basics, and
those are the things that are going to be It's

(33:55):
good to have your money in things that appreciate, but
it's also good to have your many in store of
value and then from there like things like food and
other things to be able to get you through hard times.
So I would definitely have a balance of your goals
because the world is at large is going to be
They're going to do their twenty twenty six goals like
every other year. But we need to be thinking about

(34:18):
what's really going on in the world economy and the
world stage, and maybe we need to do a little
more hunkering down. Like my wife and I talked about,
we're actually going to set aside some money to get
her a Second Amendment utensil this couple this next year,
and I'm going, do you like how I said that

(34:39):
second Amendment utensil? And we're going to get some more
precious metals as well that are brass related. And so
we're going to go over to read again or here
in Utah in the next couple of weeks and see
what they have for deals for Christmas and stuff like that.
They always have their twelve Days of Christmas, at least
in the last several years, they have their twelve Days
of Christmas deals, and I'm kind of looking forward to

(35:01):
those so that we can get some deals on that.
So that's those are some of the things that I've
been thinking about for goals, and then maybe shifting from
the traditional goal setting to more of a preparedness mindset
goal setting.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Goal setting, well, you see that's where all my goal
setting pretty much is kind of sad to say, but
I was thinking is maybe we're I'm being a little
too what's the right word, I'm being a little too
vague with my goals here, being a little too complicated.

(35:36):
I really like to keep it simple when it comes
to preparedness and survival. Like you're saying in Paris, Is,
I think everybody needs to be more preparedness focused this
next year, because as we go along, it's only it's
only getting worse. And that's something I wanted to mention
to your Paris I was. I was, you know, I
keep thinking about timeline, right, I'm always kind of chatting
with you about timeline. I think I kind of figured

(35:57):
out where we're at, so I'll get with you later
on that. But of course, every year we go along,
we have less time to get prepared and so to
keep it simple, to keep it basic, I always start,
and I've said this a million times, with the survival
rules of three. Right. If I know a lot of

(36:17):
people listening to this are just getting started. We get
those getting new people joining our group almost every day
that say hey, I'm new and I'm just getting started.
Need help, And so the place to start is with
the survival rules of three and that helps develop priority
for goals right, So with the number one being shelter,

(36:38):
number two being water, number three being food, as in,
you can only survive three hours in harsh weather without shelter,
three days without water, three weeks without food. And I
also have security, and they're so safety and that means
self defense, you know, having that like you say that,
implement that tool with you all the time, and that

(37:01):
could even be placed number one because you only have
seconds to defend yourself if that's you know, that's the
case if you find yourself in that situation. So it
was funny.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
So when I have utah, Mike just said something about
how if you believe in precious metals, if you don't
hold it, you don't own it. And that's my belief.
And so I have a significant and you do too, Shane.
You have you you're you got a safe right behind you.
And in this in this very picture that we're watching,
what are you talking about? So don't look at that.
But the idea there is that you know, my wife

(37:33):
was like, we don't have an alarm system. I'm like, yeah,
we do. We got our dog and we got my gun,
you know, my Second Amendment utensil. So those are some
things and again, that's not an end all, be all,
because I could they could sneak in and I could
still stay asleep. And there's some things that you think about,
But that was just kind of a funny thing that
I was thinking about, Like safety is important. We just

(37:55):
had my wife and I just had our rank accounts
breached and we didn't lose any well, we did end
up losing some money, but it wasn't significant, but we
had to change our bank accounts and that's been just
so frustrating to have to do. But even cybersecurity, you know,
not just physical security. Anyways, I was I totally hijacked
your comment.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
So no, no, it's I totally appreciate that it's a
priority wise. You know, there's you know, questions about precious
metals and and uh, there's the thought that and we've
mentioned this amount of time just trying to figure out
how to say this, I guess kindly and easily, is

(38:39):
that when the markets collapse, what will actually be there? What,
like Mike said, if you don't hold it, you don't
own it. Can you actually hold your physically your bank account,
you know, dollars cash, Sure they'll have some value, but

(39:01):
right now, what we're seeing with gold and silver taking off,
and it's not just gold and silver, it's it's assets,
you know, tangible assets in particular, it's you know, it's uh,
I mean you look at platinum and padium, which I'm
not honestly a huge fan of, but that's where things
are going. And I'm slaughtering this, but uh, financial assets

(39:23):
are are going away in my opinion.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Well even bartable barturable assets are good.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Like yeah exactly. I think like like like we said,
food storage, things that have you know, that are going
to help curb What's what's going to happen here with
with the again in twenty six with the the interest
rates going up again there they are going to go
up even though the Fed's dropping them. Uh, the inflation
continues to go up, especially with the government printing more

(39:51):
and more. They've stopped q E and they are going
to start They've stopped QT, they are going to start
q E and that just means more inflation.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
So that means other assets are going to go down
and others are going to go up. And I think
we're seeing that right now. So to not be you know,
too critical again, if you don't hold it you don't
own it. And there is a certain point where I
have said I have enough, right and I don't believe

(40:20):
that you should continue to buy bye bye bye bye
to the detriment of your other preps. Right off, paying
off your debts, of getting food storage, of your training,
of your and that should be part of your goals
this next year as well as part of mine. Is
additional training, additional skill building, and like you say, also physical,

(40:40):
your physical goals and your spiritual goals. But I think
you can get to the point where you have too
much of something.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
Yeah, got a balance, and that that's a.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Really hard thing I think with goals is and like
I said, with my initial initial goal is to is
to double my food stores this next year. And I
could get into that, you know why I feel that's necessary,
but that's kind of outside the window of the conversation today.
But you know, just trying to focus on those essentials

(41:15):
the survival rules of three to tell you where your
priority should be in getting your preps.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
And well, here's another example of a good idea for
goal setting. We just had. We just had this last week.
It snowed for the first time in Utah and in
several other states had their first snow of the season,
and there were more accidents than I care to it.
I was, I'm just like shocked. How many, Like do

(41:43):
people forget how to drive? Maybe there was their tires
weren't prepared for it, or I don't know what, but
you've got to have you got to have your stuff
in order for you know that winter is coming, for
goodness sakes. One thing that happened on one of the
major highways in my town is called Highway six. It's
actually one of the most dangerous highways in the nation

(42:03):
for accidents and things of that nature. And so this
storm hit and they shut down the highway and people
were stranded in the snow because the accidents were so
robust that they were stranded. And not just here in
my I'm talking about this as I've been all over
the country, but people were stranded for hours. So if

(42:26):
that's the case, do you have your car kits, do
you have your food, your water, your shelter, do you
have warm clothes, do you have all that stuff? Do
you have extra fuel? And that's the kind of stuff
like genuinely, and you don't think about, you know, you're
just doing your normal commute from you know, we're going
over to my dad's house or whatever. One of our guys,

(42:46):
one of my friends, his son barely beat the snow
because he went over early. But he went right through
that same area. And we don't think about having a
whole big prep would just going to a grand or
going over to do this, or just going into town,
you know. So it's it's important to remember that at

(43:07):
least in a car trunk, you should have some essentials
and have that. I would say that should be a
goal for everybody is to have their have a kit
ready to go in every car. I in fact, I
just ordered Survival Frog. I just ordered another jumper cable
kit of portable jumper cables for my other car, and

(43:27):
I ordered I ordered some extra like those those they
call them bivvy Bivvy sleeping bags, and those are like
high end. I guess you know, the my Lar emergency
blankets are like the low end and these are like
high end that and so I ordered several of those
for my to fill out the need for my family.

(43:49):
And so I'm trying to think about different things, like
what are what are one of the good things about
a new year or setting goals is do an inventory.
I mean, Shane, you'd already talked about looking to the
past to see what you want to do for the future,
but also do an inventory, like okay, where are you
with your food storage? How much rice? I know U
tah Mike just said that he has too much rice?

Speaker 2 (44:13):
But well, yeah, the hard part about that is is
if you're buying from a distributor, from a retailer and
they say this is many servings, uh, you know, in
their in their kits. You don't want to go buy servings.
You want to go buy calories. Yeah, And that is
the hard part to you know, You've got to figure
out how many calories am I going to use in

(44:34):
that situation of my kids and so on and so forth,
and then do the math. And that's that's quite a
bit when it comes down to trying to get a
year's worth of worth of food storage. But that should
be part of your planning as well. It's like, Okay,
I need the X amount of calories. I've seen you know,
plenty of family and friends who say, yeah, we've got
a year's worth of food storage or six months for
four people, and it fills the corner barely fills the

(44:55):
corner of one room. I'm like you should count your calories, yeah,
because I'm pretty sure. But like you're saying with those
baby bags and such, that that's shelter, right, that should
be first priority is is shelter. And that could be
your home, It could be your apartment, could be your vehicle,
it could be whatever.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
Like especially you need to winterize your car and winterize
your how we are talking, did a whole episode on winterrizing.
But those are those in my opinion, those should be
some prepper goals that you should have is to say, hey,
do I have a kit for every car that will
get me through whatever is in your area? Like our
area is we have snow during the winter and it
can hit and it can hit hard. Maybe you have

(45:34):
hurricanes where you are, and so you need to be
prepared for a hurricane that potentially come through or whatever
to grab and go and so just whatever it is
that you wherever you live, whatever your conditions are, your
natural disaster potentials, have a plan, have a goal to
be prepared for those things, and then create a plan
to get yourself prepared for that. And then of course,

(45:55):
you know life life, we all need to be having
good goals for life and just understanding we all need
to make more money, we all need to be more
disciplined with our spending. We all need to be you know,
eating better, we all need to be healthier. So because
one of the things that I think about is that
when when crap hits the fan, pharmacies aren't going to

(46:17):
be around, and you can only order so many jase Kits,
you know before before you're gonna at some point you're
gonna eventually run out of medicine. And so you've got
to be healthy enough to either get through that or start,
you know, start making some arrangements. Now, Like, my wife
has a couple of medicines that she's taking and and
she's just really feeling the real pull to kind of

(46:39):
wean off of some of them as much as she
can and find more herbal and natural remedies. She had
she got hit hard with some real major health issues,
so we went straight for We just used the pharmaceuticals
to get her to get us through it. And so
now that she's stabilizing where and she's she's slowly weaning
off and she's doing pretty well, and I'm pretty proud
of her for doing that and she's gotten down to
about half some of the medicines she's taking and she's

(47:02):
doing okay, so far, so good. So that's another goal
to have is in your's part of your physical and
health goals should be like what am I doing with
my medicines? What am I doing with my pharmaceuticals? Do
I have a stash to get me through to be
able to wean off of it? Because there's legit withdrawals
from some of these pharmaceuticals that you need to be
worried about. And I would suggest that if you when

(47:25):
you're looking at your goals for the next year, don't
set goals to then just have goals to set set
goals with with the idea in mind that you're going
to be a different person and have a different You're
going to be a better person at the end of
next year if you do. If you do, if you're
better by one percent every day next year, you're going

(47:48):
to have be three times the person you are today,
because it's three hundred and sixty five times one percent,
right this three hundred and sixty five percent increase in
your in your skill set. Whatever I just recently, I
don't I haven't had a physical goal, like I just
my goals lift weights every day, but I haven't had
a goal to like lift a certain amount of weight,
like some guys are like, Oh, I want to bench whatever,

(48:10):
I want to curl whatever, And I actually just hit.
It's not the most I've ever I used to be
a lot more into it, and I had an injury
in my shoulders, and so I've rehabbed and I've rebuilt back,
and I'm moving back towards being able to bench some
decent weight for my at least for my body weight.

(48:30):
And I hit. I went up ten pounds, and I
was like, I've never done this by myself. I didn't
have a spotter. I was a little nervous, but I
went up ten pounds and I did it, and I
was like whoo. So sometimes those some times goals just
fall into your lap, you know, And so you can
just become. As you become the person you want to become,

(48:51):
you'll start to see areas where you can work on
to be better. And I think that's the one thing
that I've noticed in my life is that the more
like I've been reading a lot of books on philosophy
and stoicism and I've come to realize that I have
a few things that I need to work on about
my anxiety, about my you know, my propensity for anxiety
and panic and worry. And so I've learned how to

(49:14):
do a few things by reading. I have a My
wife says, you need to see a therapist. I said,
I do. I have a bibliotherapist. A bibliotherapist is a
book therapy. I read to get my therapy. So I
have goals to continue that. You know that those are
the kinds of things that I have goals for. I hope,
I hope that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Yeah, absolutely, And I think kind of my closing thought
is here is that it's obvious that each of us
have different view of different vision of what the future
is going to look like, of what twenty twenty six
can look like. Obviously mine is much more oblique than
than utah mics, and so my goals are oriented toward
my beliefs and my vision. But I think so I

(49:53):
think that's the important part is is figure out what
your vision is for the future, for this this coming year,
and so your goals accordingly, and of course, you know,
with the using these survival rules of three as kind
of a guide. I think that helps create priority. Uh

(50:14):
and then of course, you know, expanding to family and
so forth. But one thing I've learned, and now I've
shared this before, is that reaching out and and trying
and if you don't see it. So part of this
vision is that, Okay, this is where I want to be,
This is where I feel I need to be to have,

(50:34):
you know, to have a place for my family, like
like this location. I said, you know, I've got my
bug out location and it and uh, that was you know,
part of my plans for years and years and years
and I finally achieved it. And so I just want
to say, if if you cannot see that vision, if
you can't see where you're going or how you're going
to get there, the best way to do to to

(50:57):
get there. For me, the only way to get there
is through prayer. Is through of course hard work and
faith and prayer, and eventually you'll get there. Of course,
if your vision is aligned with the with the will
of our heavenly Father and and if your if your
plans are are realistic, I guess you could say, then

(51:21):
things will happen for you and you'll be able to
reach your goals. And if it's not working out, maybe
something needs a little tweaking, right, something needs a little
bit of adjustment, and for me to step back, Like
I still want to build my cabin up there. That's
a big goal for me. That's huge, and at the
very moment, I don't see how that's going to happen.
I mean I do, I do in the very long run,

(51:43):
but in short term I don't really see. But I
still have that on my list. I'm still working toward that,
and with some luck and some blessings, I'll accomplish that
because I feel that's an important goal for me and
my family. And what, you know, what my vision is
of the future.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
I think I think something that I want to Just
my closing thoughts are, if you're going to have a
vision of the future, go a little crazy from what
don't be so you know, yeah, you want to be
you know, you know, you don't want to say I
want to be I want to grow five more feet
tall and so I can dunk a basketball without having
a jump anyway. I mean, those are weird, but go

(52:24):
a little crazy. Maybe maybe you're saying to yourself, you
know what I want to have, I want to have
a business that a side hustle that pays me a
couple thousand dollars a month and that I can build
next year. Well, sometimes sometimes that feels like it's totally
out of touch. But what if it's not. What if
you could do it? What if you what if there's
just one contact or one book or one idea away

(52:44):
from accomplishing something that's a little crazy. And what's cool
about having a good, strong cash flow is that you
can start. You can afford all of your preps. You
can afford your your gear, you can afford your food,
you can afford the water, you can afford shelter, you
can afford to have you know, I just found a
guy that I'm reading a new book. I just started

(53:06):
a new book last night called Launch, And in that
book he talks about how he's helped several businesses, several
people or entrepreneurs launched their business and they had no
idea how what they were doing or how they were
In many cases, he says several of them. One guy
was an herbologist and he had a board game that
he that he created to help people learn about herbs

(53:27):
and medicines and how to use herbs for medicine, and
I thought, that's a great idea. So he helped this
guy launch that thing, and he went from the He
went his first on his own, he sold like twelve
of the game, and then he actually went through this
guy's program and the next time he did it, he
sold almost seven hundred of the game and made twenty grand.
And now he makes I think he has a six

(53:49):
or seven figure I think he has like a seven
figure business now because he's selling so many of these
games and other courses and other things. So it's like,
did he believe that he could do that in the
first year or when he set out to do it. No,
but he accomplished something because he learned and he was
able to create something amazing. And I thought, I was like,
you know what, I want to get that board game
like I want to have I wanted to learn more

(54:10):
about herbs and how to use herbs for medicine. That's
one of my goals this next year to learn how
to do more of that. And I'm going to get
Nicole Apillion's a couple of her books too. So anyways,
don't think I would say set goals and then think
about what would it take? What about ten exing those goals,

(54:31):
Like what if you ten x those goals? What would
that mean? And just go a little crazy, think a
little bit outside the box. Or I could really dream.
Don don't restrict yourself. Give yourself a chance to really
dream a little bigger than you normally have, and then
see if the blessings come and or the income comes,
or the business idea comes or etc. And see what happens.

(54:51):
You might be surprised. You might surprise yourself with what's
really possible, and you might be able to accomplish more
than you think you can. We often can do a
lot more than we think we can. And I'm this
is something that I'm sharing because I need to believe
it myself and I'm working on it for myself. See
any last thoughts before I close it up?

Speaker 2 (55:09):
No, I just uh, I just I guess accentuate. What
I said there is is just just work hard, believe,
tweak your goals, be flexible, and just work every day
and you'll eventually get there. And uh, I think for
this next year, we really really just have to step
it up. If you're just starting, really focus, cut out

(55:31):
the unnecessary things, the things that are not essential, you know, holidays, vacation,
those types of things. Whatever it takes to get you,
get you to three months to six months to a
year with those essentials. I don't think there's any time
to waste.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
Yeah. Absolutely, I feel like we have time, but no
time to waste, if that makes sense. Like you've got
to be focused and you got to be get in
on it. So thank you all again for watching and
being with us here. For those that were with us live,
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Take care, See you next week.

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