11 Practical 'Home Survival' Skills Every Man Needs (2020 Edition)
[0:00:00] Now, I know for some of you guys, you just
found out you live in the same house as your wife. [Sound effect] Me, I just found out
I have four kids. [Sound effect] Now, this video isn’t about surviving the
apocalypse; no, this something much more intense. What am I talking about? You’re stuck at
home with your roommate, with your partner, with your family spending more time with them
than you thought possible. [Sound effect] Skill number one, become a better communicator.
Seriously though, a lot of us have never been around our families, roommates, or spouse
this much and for so long of a time period with no end in sight. And this is why communicating
clearly is so important because you don’t want to be hating the people that you are
stuck with. [Sound effect] My advice is don’t judge, don’t blame,
and listen to people. So with judgment, we do this all the time. We judge a person before
they open their mouth, we’ve already come to a decision. Try to do a conversations come
to it with an open mind. And, when something happens, don’t blame anyone. Accidents are
going to happen, problems are going to arise, but it doesn’t help for you to blame to
actually state the obvious. And, finally, listen. This is one of the things
that so many of us have issues with. We don’t shut the computer screen, we keep talking
on our phone, oh, we’re multitasking. We’re listening. No, we’re not. We hear what they’re
saying, but we don’t internalize it. Make sure that, hey, put the phone to the side,
get off the phone call, shut the computer, and really listen to the other person.
By keeping things positive, not brining up ancient history and treating the people that
you’re with like VIPs, you’re going to find that most problems are going to melt
away. You’re going to have clear communication and that right there is going to set you up
for success. Next up, let’s redefine what’s necessary
and then cut off the unnecessary. I know many of you guys have lost your jobs. Many of you
are worried about your jobs. Many of you guys own companies and you’re trying to figure
out how are we going to get more money into the business.
What you want to do is look around see where you can make adjustments. And the adjustments
don’t necessarily have to be huge for you to see an impact. I know in my household,
we’ve simply turn the thermostat. We’re paying more attention to when we’re turning
lights off. Yes, it’s a small amount of money that we’re saving, but it’s real
money. Now, for some of you, yes, redefining what’s
necessary is going to be painful, maybe a bit embarrassing. You may realize, we don’t
need two brand new cars and the car payments that go with them. Oh, do I really need to
have this apartment by myself of should I move back in with my parents?
The next home survival skill, have an emergency plan. Now, depending on where you live, how
many people live in your home, yeah, you should have an emergency plan. In case of fire, in
case of tornado, what are you going to do? But, if you thought through other scenarios,
if you thought about what’s going to happen if you do lose your job and you maxed out
your credit cards. You used all of your savings, do you have a point in which you’re going
to pack up and you’re going to drive back home from California to Indiana.
The power of emergency plan isn’t the plan itself, but it’s you going through the planning
process. You speaking with your brother, speaking with your parents about, okay, is this something
that I can come home. These are the conversations you want to have now versus when you’re
stuck in that situation and you’re wondering, hey, is there someone that can may be get
me money, so I can go back home. The next skill every guy needs, situational
awareness. So, let’s break up your state of mind into five levels. We’ve got oblivious,
we have aware, we have high alert, then we have fight, and then we have overwhelmed.
Now, the only time I ever think it’s cool to be oblivious is if you’re at home asleep
in your bunker. You also don’t want to spend a whole lot of time on high alert of fight
because that takes a lot of energy out of you and it leads to that fifth level which
is overwhelmed. So, where do you want to spend the majority
of your time? Right here being aware. Having situational awareness means that you understand
what a normal baseline is and then you’re looking for things that are outside of that.
Anomalies, that’s what grabs your attention. Now, one of the issues right now is that we’ve
got a lot of disruption and this is making a lot of things which normally would not be
anomalies look like anomalies. So, that’s why for a lot of people, they are just low
on energy and their nerves are frayed out because they’re finding that, hey, I’m
in this high alert phase a lot. I’m even fighting sometimes and it’s taken a lot
of energy out of me. Quickly identify what is the base and then
look for the anomalies, but try to maintain and try to stay in that aware status.
So, this next home survival skill, incredibly powerful, but most people don’t ever talk
about it because it’s not sexy and that is prevent accidents from happening by understanding
their root cause. So, this cup right here. We have cups like
this throughout my house until my 7-year old daughter spilt boiling water all over her
leg. Guess what? We’re at the emergency room second degree burns. It was horrible.
But I made and I vowed right then, this wasn’t going to happen again. So, I understood it
happened because of the basically the small base. So, I went through and I got rid of
all those cups, we brought in coffee cups that had a wider base. Guess what? We haven’t
had any spills. Throughout your home, there are many things
that are just accidents waiting to happen. Whenever you’re cutting vegetables, you’re
cutting with the knife towards yourself, you’re using a dull knife which is more dangerous
in my opinion than a sharp knife that gets the job done.
[0:05:07] When you’re out mowing the lawn, guess what?
You’re not even wearing eye protection. Save yourself a trip to the emergency room
because you know they’re going to be overtaxed and prevent the accidents from happening in
the first place. And let’s talk about first aid and medications.
You need to have your basics, you need to have first aid kits because if you cut yourself,
yes, you’ve never had an infection with a cut, but there’s always a first time for
something. And, if you’re not cleaning out that wound, if you’re not treating it with
an antiseptic, if you’re not putting a bandage on it, again, you’re setting yourself up
for something you could have prevented a trip to the emergency room when they’re taxed
out. And let’s talk about something a little
bit more serious. What happens if you get sick? Do you know how to break a fever? Do
you have medicine? Do you have someone that can come check in on you? Do you have someone
that can bring you food? Do you have someone who is willing to be in with you and to have
the protective gear? Understand these scenarios are real. You want
to make sure that you are prepared and you want to make sure that you’ve got people,
you’ve got a network that you can rely on in case it gets really bad.
And let’s talk about food. Gents, if you’re going to survive at home, you need to learn
how to cook. Now, you may know the basics, but now is the time for you to start doing
the research to understand the difference, the different pans have when you’re cooking
eggs. To understand the way different oils react to different levels of heat. The way
meat reacts to heat. Oh, you only got really tough meat? Well,
did you know you could actually put it in a salt, leave it there for about 20 minutes,
the salt is going to go in and tenderize the meat, then cook the meat at a very high temperature,
we’re talking 400-500 degrees and all of a sudden you’re going to sear the outside
of it, trapping the flavor? I didn’t know any of these until I started researching it
a few years ago and all of a sudden, wow, my level of cooking and the food I was able
to make with basic ingredients leveled up. And now, let’s talk about recycling and
I’m not talking about taking that plastic water bottle and putting it in the right container.
What I’m talking about is when you’re cooking, when you’re using things finding
more uses for them. So, let’s take the cooking example. When
you bake a chicken, you know all that juice that’s down there, you can take it and make
a broth, a very tasty broth that you can use in a vegetable chicken broth soup that’s
very healthy. All of a sudden you start realizing, wow,
I don’t have to throw this away. I can use this for something else. When you bake that
chicken, you use that aluminum foil? Use it a few times to be able to trap in the heat.
And by the way, did the shiny side should actually be in and around the chicken because
it’s going to reflect in and keep the heat in. Not everyone knows these things. So, go
out there and explore find different ways to reuse things to actually not throw things
out and to keep them. Maybe repair that computer, find, oh, I can just upgrade the RAM. I’ve
never tried this. Well, now is the time. And, let’s talk about the home skill of
proper maintenance. First up, for yourself, are you using an electric toothbrush? Are
you flossing your teeth? Guess what? YOU may not be able to go to the dentist for three
months, for six months, for nine months. And if that happens, do you want to go in and
all of a sudden they point out, oh, my goodness, you’ve got second level gum disease, you’ve
got gingivitis. You’ve got all of these issues which could have been prevented if
you just take a better care of your mouth. And let’s talk about your house. Do you
know how to repair your air conditioner? Do you know how to repair your furnace? Well,
one of the first steps to preventing a repair is actually go in there and do the basic maintenance,
to go in there and clean out all the stuff that’s gunking up those appliances those
things that keep your house running. And, I know a lot of you guys are not handyman,
but understand with basic tools and all the great videos you can find here on YouTube,
you can pretty much repair any appliance. Another skill you want to hone right now,
your preparation skills. It can be something small like making sure that your phone is
always on charge and at 100%, so in case you have to run out the door, you’ve got a fully
charged phone. Or maybe something a little bit more advanced,
going into your vehicle and making sure that, okay, if I’m less than half a tank of gas,
I tap it up I’m always ready to go. I’ve got, you know, a basic toolkit. I’ve got
a charger, I’ve got cables there, so I could restart the vehicle. I know how to change
out a tire. I’m prepared for that. Maybe something a bit more advanced, having
a bug out bag. What’s a bug out bag? It’s simply everything you would need to grab within
minutes if you had to leave your house immediately. Now, this next home survival skill, I know
a lot of you guys need right now and that is how to cut your own hair. How to do it?
Check out this video right here from my friend, Alpha M. I think he did a great job.
Aaron, I know for years has been cutting his own hair. Yeah, he goes to a high-end salon
sometimes, but when he needs to get it done, he cut his own hair. So, I think he did a
great job with this tutorial. Go check it out.
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