Inside My Canoehead Jeff - AKA Dr. D

Becoming a veteran is a cultural shock, entering a society that is not hierarchal, structured and with your life planned is confusing at best and disturbing. When your career ends, and everyone's will, you need to figure out what is your next iteration, the new you, what you will do and accomplish. Humans are driven by activity, we strive to learn, to do new things and activities which bring us pleasure. 
This is my story, how I decided what I wanted to to accomplish upon retirement from the military, how I set about executing the tasks, how I turned dreams into a roadmap of calendar appointments and lessons learned.
Change is hard, still is - hopefully this provides some guidance.
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if you consider preparedness to be about disasters and readying to response to shocks, you're at the 20% point. Preparedness is about a lifestyle, adopting a lens through which you intent to protect your family, economic viability, health - physical / mental / financial, corporate sustainability and political independence. amongst others. 
We discuss the open door plan, the point at which your preparedness planning moves beyond the scope of disasters into a whole of life ideology - the loss of income. That is as impactful for a family as a house burning down, it moves the discussion from bug out bags to economic insurance plans, managing mental health in today's toxic life, building a future plan, a roadmap for familial success. 
Building a strategy, designing your life begins withe first accepting responsibility for your outcomes, then creating the structure to chase your dreams, all while wrapped in a  blanket of preparedness.


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EM has an ideological frame that it belongs in the public service or the not for profit field. There is a barrier to permitting the corporate world to enter the field, a fear of embracing the profit motive. Let's be clear, there is profit in the NGO / nonprofit world, in salaries, benefits and full cost pricing.
To be an entrepreneur, you need to become and expert in a niche, not a generalist.  The discipline is rife with individuals who consult across the EM spectrum, from mitigation through the pillars to recovery. The EM field is similar to healthcare, in that is the sum of a number of roles, not one position. Healthcare needs doctors, nurses, Xray, EMS, laboratory staff etc - they are all part of the field but cannot execute the functions of others. EM is similar, an expert in preparedness can comment on response, but it is time prohibitive to be an expert in both. 
Success is in the niche - carve out your space. The strategy works for any field.
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The world is chaotic, fraught with danger and loss. Either political, economic, warfare, cultural or other forces of disagreement, there is no shortage of rage, frustration, sorrow and loss in today's headlines - how do you navigate this?
There are different perspectives - micro, meso and macro. Each level having a different focus, representing different areas of your life, from family squabbles, to national government regulatory impositions on the free market.
Each of these introduce risk; your challenge is to identify all the risk, categorize it in a logical format and the set to address those risks that considering your personal risk profile are unacceptable and need immediate intervention.
It's your life, you designed it an the future is constructed from risks you accept. So find your pathway to rock an incredible life and chase your dreams.
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Exhausted, overwhelmed, the world is overpressure, despite your best efforts, you dont see yourself getting ahead. Tired of all the motivation, discipline, morning routines etcetera that fester on the Internet?
This is my story, of what I did when I hot that wall, the exhausted point. How I looked myself in the mirror, decided to change and then set about a slow, rather very slow at times, methodological process to fix me, before I fired my job.
Are you living the life you want, are you swinging your legs out of bed in the morning and looking forward to the opportunities? 
Most are not, they're exhausted at the pace and stress of modern life.

Listen, this is my story. Hopefully it resonates. 
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Journalism in its purest form is a key to a free and democratic society, though you'd be hard pressed to find that in any nation today. With governments desperately funding traditional media in hopes of saving them, it reminds us all of protectionist cities saving the taxi industry abasing Uber / Lyft irrespective of the resident's wishes. With the challenge of finding trusted sources, where do you look to seek facts when events occur?
X is the best platform for trusted sources, not the platform itself, but the ability to create a bespoke list of sources YOU trust, in one place, separate from the nightmare that exists in the "for you" column.
Find trusted sources, that is your responsibility, make a preparedness plan, be ready to navigate shocks.
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