Living A Self-Reliant Lifestyle – Class 1
We believe that self-reliance is key to personal happiness, and can make you healthier both physically and mentally. If you stop depending on others to get you through hard times, you start to find happiness by and through yourself. You have to be accountable for your own choices and actions but in the end will feel fulfilled and accomplished. Self-reliance isn’t just skill based but also a mindset allowing one to make decisions and be creative without having to rely on other opinions but doesn’t mean that other opinions aren’t taken into consideration. Being self-reliant doesn’t mean you have to be reclusive. Working with and for other people is how we share our talents and feel good about being a useful contributor to any task set before us. It promotes confidence and a sense of self-worth that cannot be had by someone who relies wholly on the talents and support of other people. This class is meant to help other people understand and begin their own journey toward a more self-reliant lifestyle.
Living A Self-Reliant Lifestyle – Class 2
In the second class we begin talking about shelter, fire making, navigation, water purification, power outage alternatives and emergency repairs. This is a two-part class due to the volume of information to be covered. The first segment focuses on shelter at home and in the wilderness, fire making including different tools, accelerants and fire-lays as well as navigation using items such as a watch, or the stars.
The information in this class is meant to bring an awareness of areas you may need to become more proficient and guide you in your journey to become more self-reliant.
Living A Self-Reliant Lifestyle – Class 3
In this third and final class within this set, we discuss how we rely on “power” in one form or another to make our everyday life easier and some alternatives to work on incase the “power” were to go out for an extending period. How will you obtain, purify and store water? How will you heat and cool your home without electricity? Cooking, Lighting and alternative power sources were all covered in this last class.