steping into self sufficiency

We have been told countless times before to get our selves ready for what ever events may lay before us. And we have made great steps toward this goal, individually as well as collectivly. We have set aside food storage as well as water and emergency suppllies. There are lands that have been perchased for a place of refuge. We have learned how to make do with what we have. Many have taken corses for wilderness servival. Others have prepared enough supplys for far more than their own family needs. Collectivly we have done many incredible things.
And some how we still fill a need, each of us, to do more.
With several scenarios and hundered of items to gather and dozens of places to put them and thousands of ways to do it and scores of individuals to prepare for... it is a daunting task to gather all of the information and supplies and knowlege to be addquatly prepared for every thing.
Speaking as one who has much to do to even be remotly prepared, I look to the knowledge and expertise of mant oyher individuals for help. This is a list from a book that was writen by Wynn Westmoreland. He gave a fire side at the R C A Center back in January about self-sufficiency and his book is at least a way to manage the task that lay before us.

*1 Asses needs
*2 Organize
*3 Inventory
*4 Determine deficits
*5 Prioritize
*6 Balance
*7 Select a place of storage
*8 Budget (weekly/ monthly)
*9 Be consistent
*10 Devide and conquore
*11 Family involvment
*12 Keep perspective
*13 Reasses bi-anually
*14 Use and rotate
*15 Store what you use as long as possible

Look for more in days to come, thanks!