Step 1. Get out of debt, stop allowing the doosh bags to siphon away your hard earned cash.

Step 1a. Save and invest 20% of take home pay.

Step 1b. Keep 10% of 1a in liquid assets for “prudent” purchases.

Step 1c. Pay cash for everything, allow retail outlets to give less to large financial conglomerates (Visa, MC, AMEX, etc).

Step 1d. Use a local bank (credit union if available) to receive your paycheck and for other financial transactions (see above doosh bag comment for reasoning).

Step 1e. Automate auto payments of bills (heat, electric, rent, mortgage, etc) from a checking account and NOT through credit/debit card. If the “Visa/MC/AMEX” symbol is on the card, they are taking a cut (see 1c).

SPECIAL NOTE: 1-1e are the #MayflowerSteps as they are the vessel to leave tyranny behind. Remember that the pilgrims were escaping from religious tyranny and that an English investment firm funded their voyage.

Step 2. Start eating right and get active so you can put down the magic beans (pharmaceuticals). Drink enough fluids to require urination every hour (a quick hydration rule of thumb). 200lbs of weight = 100 ounces of water intake per day. Math is to divide your weight (in pounds) in half and drink that amount of ounces of water per day. In other words, if you have not pissed in 5 hours, you are dehydrated at this very moment.

Step 2a. After the ability to walk 3 miles with little effort, start wearing a pack with 25 lbs. You can also include carrying a 2 foot long 4 X 4 for additional upper body conditioning if desired.

Step 2b. After 2a, also for 3 miles with ease, you can now join a gym if desired OR perform 50 push ups, 60 sit ups, and work toward running 2 miles per day. Sunday is rest day. Continue indefinitely and stretch appropriately. Can you just join a gym without the rest? Yes, but if you find that you lift more sugary coffee than weight, you are doing it wrong. PS: getting a massage is NOT working out.

SPECIAL NOTE: 2-2b are the #RudySteps as he was not capable of being a Notre Dame football player physically but he willed it anyway.

Step 3. Buy local, as close to home as possible (manufacturing and retail). Seek establishments that share your values. Build your purchasing network.

Step 3a. Check labels for made in USA. Put bug in ears of your new local retail network to stock with USA products. Use red sharpie to place a line on packaging of CCP products. NOTE: your cost will increase significantly; “embrace the suck” or learn Mandarin, the choice is yours. All of these steps are about self discipline.

Step 3b. Avoid big box and large chains. It is time to bring competition back to capitalism, they have gotten so large that our opinion no longer influences them.

Step 4. Prepare to eventually relocate by researching where and when you may need to. All prior steps will enable this but you must create a plan with benchmarks that will alert you to take action before it is required. A bug out Uhaul is much better then a bug out bag, trust me. This may require a different hemisphere or continent. Successful Step 1 will allow this (see New York State/California circa 2020 for adequate inspiration).

Step 4a. Take a vacation/trip to where you choose from step 4 to ensure that this is where you want to go, when needed. You just may find that it is better to move there (permanently) today. You also need to ensure that your family is going to be on board. If your children suck...today...you probably should have done step 4 some years ago because statistically young people learn more about being a person from their friends than their parents (after entering high school).

Step 5. Teach these steps to anyone that will absorb common sense. Take note of those people because they can be trusted...ignore all the others. Those others will be the ones to turn you in to curry favor with the commies (see 1930’s Germany for an effective example). Special note from the author: this is an insurgency and should be treated as serious as such.