March 27, 2024
Day 908 of the Adventure
There's a fine line, I believe, between doing things out of necessity or even fear and doing them out of prudence and responsible planning. I think that the self-sufficiency lifestyle falls into the "prudence and responsibility" category. I also believe that we typically tend to dismiss planning until many times it's too late to effectively do much about it when crisis strikes. It's true with savings accounts, home maintenance, vehicle maintenance, retirement, and really, you name it. We are mostly procrastinators at our core. The same can be said for self-reliance and self-sufficiency. As we began to evaluate the situation we found ourselves in during the Covid event. We were facing the arbitrary closing of our businesses and potential financial calamity. Fortunately, we were able to weather that storm through a lot of hard work and hard decisions. Within a year however, we were beginning to make plans to become much better prepared for similar events. We decided to make the journey towards self-sufficiency beginning as soon as we could tie up some loose ends in our business life. Once the journey began, there's been no looking back.
As we prepared to embark on our personal journey to self-sufficiency, we made another decision. If we're going through all the trouble of it for ourselves, why not document the process for others to follow. That was in early 2021. In fact, the decision was made in March of 2021. We purchased video equipment and prepared to head down a road that we weren't sure exactly where it would lead us. We still had two recreational properties that consumed a lot of our time. Not knowing whether we would continue to be tied to them, we began making plans that included lots of options both including keeping the properties or potentially liquidating one of them. The interesting part was that the decisions we would be making that year had so many more "moving parts" than most people have to deal with. Planning for all of it was nearly impossible. We envisioned so many different pathways and honestly didn't know if any of them would actually work. By September of that year, we knew it was time to commit to a property where we could get started. Almost immediately after that, the path became clear. More on that tomorrow.
Carry On
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