Now what?

It is a question I've asked myself a thousand times in scenarios. It helps that this was my role in the Indian Health Service. Helping Tribes prepare for emergencies. I felt it super helpful in putting myself in that place and trying to figure out what I would do before I had to have an answer. Before it became real. "The grocery stores typically have 3 days of supplies on their shelves. What happens on Day 4? Now what?" "The power is out, and my well pump no longer runs because it needs electricity. Now what?" "Power is out, we have electric heat, and it is the middle of winter. Now what?" Are you starting to see how this can be helpful in your life?

"But Megan, we are in the midst of a pandemic, shelves are empty, and I don't have the time to think about these things. I don't have the money to go out and buy a month's worth of supplies. I need answers now!" I got you. What can we implement right now to cultivate peace, joy, and happiness no matter what happens in our environment?

I can tell you from personal experience, the biggest potential success partner and the biggest potential enemy is one on the same. It's your mind. Your beliefs. The subconcious ones that you may not even be aware of until now. But they are the ones that show up in the story you're telling yourself. This is not whooy stuff like move this pen with your mind. This is your hard-drive. The files you've written or had written for you over the years of your life. The files that you use to make up your opinions of events, allow you to choose the words you do about your experiences, the files you depend on to run all information through and make decisions from. Pretty important, huh?

I avoided mindset work like the plague for years! Every course. Every teacher. Every leader I followed. All said-work on your mindset. If you aren't having the results you want in life, it isn't that you need to work harder, you need to work smarter. Grow and improve your mindset. I'd say, "yadda yadda yadda just give me the steps to how to prepare for xyz or build xyz business. I'm awesome at implementing the steps. I don't need mindset stuff." What an idiot, right? Now you know just how important, and far reaching your mindset goes. Man, I was dumb not to run with this stuff, right? Please don't be like me. Please be smart and take the lessons that took me years to learn and run with them today, right away!

So the best thing, above all else, this is why I'm covering this first for emergency preparedness is get your mind in the game.

Stand/sit tall, place your shoulders back, breathe deeply. (Do this for 10 breaths)

Homework: Get out your journal or IPAD and free-write.

When it comes to living abundantly preparing your family to be ready for anything:

What are your fears?

What stories or memories really bother you?

Is there anything you feel ashamed about?

What do you wish you could change?

Write this down and say it aloud:

I am ready and willing to see things differently. I am willing to shift my perspective around preparing my family. I am willing to see patterns, close doors, rearrange paradigms, and enter a new experience with daily life.

If sit were all up to you, what would you be experiencing right now?

If anything were possible, how would you choose for these events to work for you?

What do you want?

What beliefs say you can't have it?

-List them out and disprove every one of them. Re-write with beliefs that you feel better about.

Stand guard of your mind. For what gets in shapes you.