We hope you took a few  moments to complete our short preparedness quiz. The quiz was designed as a tool to measure ones self-reliance. If your score was a bit low (like mine was) you may realize you still have a lot of work to do to be fully or even partially self-reliant.Realistically, most of us aren’t really preparing for the Armageddon, but rather for an emergency or disaster that might disrupt our normal way of life for a period of time - a time period that may last a week, a month, six months or even longer.As most of us are just ordinary people, living full and busy lives, working regular jobs, not former military, special-force professionals or hardcore  "Preppers"  we are just not sure how to begin an emergency preparedness plan. So that is the goal of this blog, to provide a common sense approach to what we feel is an important topic - "Personal Self-Reliance", and to do so without using any fear tactics. We know this blog won’t provide us with all of …