Prepare for difficult phases

Prepared is different from fearful

Preparation sets calm actions before pressure arrives. It focuses on plausible disruption—loss of income, illness, device failure, transport problems or local emergency—rather than trying to predict everything.

Protect continuity

List essential people, medicines, documents, access methods, transport, communication, cash needs and responsibilities. Add a primary action, fallback and escalation point for each.

• □Emergency contacts
• □Critical medicines
• □Identity and insurance
• □Access and recovery codes
• □Dependants
• □Transport
• □Three days of essentials

Run one recovery drill

Test a safe failure: restore one backed-up document, find a policy number without your normal device, or explain the family contact plan. Fix one gap the drill exposes.