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SURVIVAL SHELTERS: Photo Post

14/6/2016

Here are a few photos of survival shelters that will save your life if you ever need to use them. The priorities of survival are remain calm, water, shelter, fire and food. Not always in this order. Flash photo builds muscle memory. To help you build upon that memory here are some simple shelters to look at, this may just save your life one day. Remember the survival rule of three. You can live for three weeks without food, three days without water, three minutes without air. As I mentioned before once you realize you're lost or stranded remain calm. The biggest part of survival is your creativity. With creativity you can, fashion shelter, weapons, tools and clothing.

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9/6/2016

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DO YOU HAVE A DREAM?

9/6/2016

Dreams are a funny thing. Some people achieve and some do not. It takes commitment, steady work, goals, and more. The one thing it takes that's probably most important is belief. Nobody has the power to take away your dreams, not family, friends, leaders, groups, media and certainly not enemies. One action each day towards your goals is one step closer. Cause goals accomplished make dreams a reality. Sometimes the first thing that derails a person's dream faster than anything else is relationships with bad influences or selfish demands. Sometimes you have to make a tough choice and cut people off so that you can make your dreams come true. The other thing is anyone helping you to attain your dreams by accomplishing goals needs to be appreciated and brought along with you to the top. Never burn bridges with good people. Sometimes you have to work countless hours, sometimes without payment or immediate gratification. You also need to not get placed in a rut, if it's not working step back and try a better way. Never sacrifice family time especially with your soulmate or children. Safeguard those two things at all costs. It's okay to support others in their dreams as long as it does not distract from your path, it is ok to say no to someone and not need to explain many details. Sometimes offering to much personal insight can be your downfall. Keep it brief and keep it simple. Delete, ban then block all haters. As your dreams come true people will try to pull you down. But I promise you they will not be able too no matter their threats as long as you shut them out and stay on path. Ignore stupidity, avoid politics, just promote your dream. Insights and analytics are great tools in Internet marketing to see what's working and what's not. Know your audience and customize to them while you attract new customers or supporters. Always pay it forward, people remember acts of kindness. Most of all remember as a leader, coach, mentor, friend always love instead of hate. If you hate then remove what you hate so you can get back to the dream. Never change for anyone else but for you, always improve for you. These are things my soulmate reminded me of when I struggle and things I know, but sometimes it takes a person that cares for you to remind us. Always get advice from someone that's more successful than you and more experienced, my soulmate is leaps and bounds ahead of me as an established and successful business pioneer. You might have to search out your mentor and that can come in the form of personal relationship, books, video or faith based. I post this message today with all good intentions as a form of paying it forward to the person that may have needed to read this and at the right time they read and it helped them. This is Daniel W. Shrigley and to all my supporters, THANK YOU! ‪
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PATTERN FOR SURVIVAL (Downloadable Audio)

5/6/2016

The Priorities Of Survival

5/6/2016

THE PRIORITIES OF SURVIVAL
Written By Daniel W. Shrigley

The priorities of survival NEVER change. Only the order will be affected by elements of weather, need or availability. Naturally, we need to keep a moderate body temperature. Staying warm when it's cold, cool when it's hot. Fire and shelter, combined with clothing or insulation will provide protection from hot or cold conditions.

* Wind
* Sun
* Rain
* Cold
* Sand
* Dust
* Insects
* Animals

The above all affect the body and if you do not counter the effects you will suffer injury, sickness or death. Dehydration, wind chill, wind burn, sun exposure, insect stings, bug bites, sand and dust storms to name a few examples.

FIRE:
Fire is a tool, first and foremost. Each person has a responsibility to use fire safely to avoid injury, destruction, and death. Fire is used for cooking, boiling to treat water to kill parasites. Fire is additionally used to harden wood, and metal. You can use fire to sterilize metal, cut and carve wood, melt, shape, and form plastics. Fire is also used to signal and communicate to others. Two things that bring happiness when lost and/or stranded is fire and water.

In modern times, we carry lighters, fire strikers, matches, and other fire starting devices.
What do you do when you have no fire starting devices?

It's suggested by survival experts, that you learn alternative methods to build a fire. Primitive methods vary, fire plow, fire thong, hand drill, bow drill, and fire piston.

Solar radiation energy is another fire producing source if you can harness the Sun's rays. You can harness solar energy in two ways, reflecting and magnification. Using either formed glass, magnifying lens, polished metal surfaces, and formed ice and/or water.

Solar energy still falls into the fire category, people cook with solar ovens and use solar energy to treat drinking water.

WATER:
Being hydrated is essential to the human body. Water is the most important survival component. Without water you will die. No different than without oxygen you will die. Water is used to not only drink, but to cool and regulate body temperature, health and hygiene. Frozen water (ice) is commonly known to preserve stored foods. Water is a sustainment element for life. You may use bodies of water for food sources, travel and escape to civilization.

SHELTER:
One of the most important things about shelter is it shields you from cold, wind, rain, sun and critters. Two common types of shelter are hasty (natural-unimproved) and man made (improved).

Typically people use cabins, shacks, houses, tents etc..
But in a survival situation you may not have man made materials to rely upon. You will need to use natural raw materials to make shelter in place.

Soldiers on the battlefield would build foxholes and trenches, improved with fortifications. However these simple holes in the ground would shield the Soldiers and protect not only from enemy attack, also the natural elements.

Shelter is basically something that counters exposure. The most basic shelter in our modern times would be a water resistant sleeping bag that is suitable for the current outdoor temperatures.

There are various types of shelter you can use to protect yourself. A-frame or Lean-2, are the most common. When making a shelter for your survival smaller is better. Unless you are in a warm climate. You want the shelter to capture your body temperature and the be insulated. Rain proofing the shelter, and insulating it will add comfort. Nobody likes getting wet in a downpour of rain. (Chinese water torture for example)
A drippy leak will drive anyone crazy and nobody likes being cold and wet.

FOOD:
Believe it or not, food is the very last thing you should be concerned about in a survival situation. In mother nature food is always abundant, if you know where to look.

* Plants
* Trees
* Insects
* Fowl
* Small game
* Large game
* Fish
* Mussels
* Seaweed

Above are a few categories for food sources. Knowing what's safe to eat versus what's poisonous takes training. Never eat anything unless you are 100% certain and can positively identify what you put in your mouth. As a general rule we don't typically eat airborne insects. However in this instance of a grasshopper you can eat even though the grasshopper can fly short distances. You basically want to avoid certain types of beetles because they carry a parasite that can give you tapeworm. However you can eat cockroaches, waterbugs, scorpions, grub worms, maggots, earthworms, and the list goes on. There are over 1,900 known edible insects.

Trapping food using, a snare, spring snare and deadfall traps helps you to capture small game animals with bait. You can set several of these traps along animal runs. Animal runs are little trails, with recurring traffic typically in the direction of food sources or water.

Animal signs are a great tool to use to help you locate small game, bird nests, and dens.
Birds are very valuable to track because they tend to have three locations that will lead you to resources. Birds will either nest, congregate near food and/or water.

Summary:
The priorities of survival are all the components you need to self sustain. Defeating elements, staying hydrated, finding food, health and hygiene. These are only the basics. There is so much more to learn to truly be effective at surviving in nature. Always think safety first, never take unnecessary risk. Remember fear kills. The hardest part about surviving while lost or stranded is the psychology, remain calm, calculated, collected in thought and in your actions.

DO NOT DRINK URINE TO SURVIVE - This Is Why!

5/6/2016

In a survival situation drinking urine is not really a feasible thing to do because of many reasons. First off, you would need to be hydrated and have clear or slightly yellowish colored pee. Meaning that you would have to have captured your urine before the need arose. If you are showing any type of signs of dehydration at all then drinking urine is not advisable. Television Survivalist Experts are at odds when it comes to your daily dose of vitamin P. Bear Grylls, Mykel Hawke, Ruth England and Mr. Stolen Valor himself Joe Teti have all chugged down the golden bladder juice. Included in this article on the left hand side are Urine Color Charts that depict hydration levels. This indicates when you should consume fresh clean water to hydrate not piss! Urophagia is the practice of drinking urine for health benefits. There's controversial disagreement between those that favor the practice and those that say their is no benefit. My point is simple; by the time you realize your thirsty enough to drink your own urine it's already to late in a real life survival situation. I teach my audience, listeners and readers that if you have the proper survival training for finding water, purifying chemically, filtering, treating with ultra-violet light, solar energy or simply by boiling; you should never need to sip on piss. Only one circumstance that might justify drinking bladder juice comes to mind. Your body needs water to digest protein. If you were starving and had no water, but needed water to digest your food, then possibly that would justify the means. However, I would still venture to stand my ground that Knowledge is power and skills developed will prevail, avoid drinking bladder juice. Unless you seriously think drinking vitamin P will make you like Bear Grylls, Mykel Hawke, Ruth England and the infamous stolen valor man himself Joseph Teti.