The Sheepdog Mindset — Part 5: Know the Rules of Engagement.
Welcome back to another ‘Mindset Monday’ at the Sheepdog Survival Blog. Last week, you established moral and ethical mission parameters for yourself — a set of technical drawings and specification sheets, outlining precisely how you intend to construct your personal safety and security methodology, so that the finished project turns out exactly like the 3D model you envision in your head. Today, […]
The Sheepdog Mindset — Part 4: Establish Your Mission Parameters.
Welcome back to the Sheepdog Survival Blog, and part-4 in our series on The sheepdog Mindset. Last week, we established that if your mindset is the foundation of your personal safety and security methodology, then your mission should be thought of as an artist’s conception, or 3D model, of the structure you intend to construct upon that solid, […]
The Sheepdog Mindset — Part 3: Define Your Mission.
Welcome to the third in a 6-part series on cultivating The Sheepdog Mindset. In part-2, I suggested that you conceptualize your mindset as the concrete foundation upon which you construct your personal safety and security methodology, and your orientation as the form you construct around your mindset, to contain it while it settles and hardens, […]
The Sheepdog Mindset — Part 2: Know the Enemy, and Yourself.
Good morning — and welcome to another installment of Mindset Monday! Last week, I presented a brief introduction to, and overview of, our 5-step process for cultivating The Sheepdog Mindset — our ever-evolving attitude of vigilance, diligence and resilience, oriented specifically for dangerous people and situations. Today, we’re going to lunge, teeth bared, into the […]
The Sheepdog Mindset – Part 1: Introduction
I recently stumbled upon a post on one of my favourite prepping-related Facebook groups, commenting on the recent (apparent) uptick in random, violent crimes in the Greater Toronto Area. The conversation began with a review of pertinent current events, and recent trends in violent crime, and then shifted to a series of “what-if’s”, and questions […]