Perhaps the biggest change that we face in the coming years and months, is that which will accompany the collapse of the money or currencies that we are used to, along with the system or rules that underpin every part of it, the way it functions and the way it can be manipulated by those ‘in the know’.

‘What would we do without money’ is a valid question. But it also reflects the situation and circumstances that we have been in for a long time. One where money has become the reference tool for just about everything – and regrettably for some, the way that we have started to value life itself.

There is no part of the monetary system that we have and use today, that hasn’t been broken and redefined to serve the self-interest and greed of people who have had the power, influence and ability to manipulate the monetary system in some way.

There is a natural order to everything. So even though it may take decades to happen, any system that is willfully created and manipulated to serve the interests of a few at the cost of the many will always meet its end.

Every ecosystem has a point of balance and when that point of balance is out, the balance must be restored – either by the inhabitants doing the right and respectful thing, or when they refuse to do so, by the system itself breaking and coming to its end through collapse.

This is where we are now.

If you believe that we need the ‘Top-Down’, complicated and highly centralised system of governance that we already have to run a whole Country, I’m afraid I’m here to let you know that you have made a mistake.

A system of governance that works for the governed does not create more questions about it than it answers. Its intelligence lies in its simplicity. It only touches or guides the areas and functionality of life and business where the outcomes, impacts and consequences of any activity will reach beyond the thoughts and actions of the individual themselves. It does not promote the interests of any one above those of another. It recognises the best interests of all people as the qualified majority in all things and especially so when no form of election or plebiscite can be called.

It sounds serious, I know.

But in very basic terms:

• Good governance is about always doing the right thing for everybody.
• Good governance is about keeping systems relatable to the people who are being governed, as well as the people who are working within or otherwise contributing in some way to it.
• A system of Good Governance is as decentralised as it can be.
• A system of Good Governance prioritises the people it serves before the jobs of the people who work for and within it, or the consideration of any other material outcome in any way.
• A system of Good Governance is responsive to change, technological advances and to genuine progress, but always seeks to harness these only to improve quality of life and not what people really need.

Yes, in time thought and action will need to be taken to provide governance at geographical levels where it makes practical sense to do so – but only where necessity really does make sense.

However, the key to making governance work at national or even international level, is to create governance models that genuinely work with people as the priority, and that model of governance has to begin and then be tried and tested within and based upon our Grassroots Communities first.

Whilst my aim may be to provide a guide to navigating the very difficult times that may lie ahead, I also recognise the resourcefulness and creativity that lies within so many people – even when in many cases they have not recognised it, or perhaps do not have confidence enough to qualify it within themselves.

You can never be an imposter when it comes to taking responsibility for yourself.

When it comes to surviving The Great Reset, taking responsibility for yourself is the part you will play in a community taking responsibility for us all.

Too many of the things that we are used to about the world we have been experiencing have been reliant on very complicated supply chains involving great distances and many different people, as well as in most cases relying upon the accumulation of many different parts.

Any one of what could be hundreds of different points on these chains may no longer be available or be an option once the real stoppages and shortages have begun.

Any number of those points could be one or one of many, that means the goods, products, foods or experiences that is no longer available, meaning that we can no longer get something, or that if we have it and it breaks, we cannot get new supplies or parts that will enable it to work.

We MUST make use of all of the people, the resources and the opportunities that we have, so that everyone has access to a fair share of everything that they need, beginning with making sure that everyone has adequate basic foods to eat.

People in every community will have ideas, knowledge and skills to make existing resources work on a localised basis, to invent new ones and even create new equipment that can do the jobs or help fulfil the tasks that will help achieve the goal of ensuring that everyone can get by, whilst things remain acutely difficult for us all.

To innovate and provide the solutions that the community will need, people just need to be asked and then given the opportunity to respond.

It doesn’t matter who has an idea, who makes, grows or fixes anything. EVERYONE benefits when a job that needs doing for the whole community gets done. The priority of supply is the survival of everyone in the community. It is NOT about how the process was ‘owned’.

Let those who can, get on with it. Don’t get precious about what it looks like when and if you can’t.

Everyone has something to offer the community. But it may not automatically be what they think.

Despite the trauma of the experience that we may all be living through, some people will still be ruled by their egos when it comes to what they are prepared to do, offer or actually give.

The age of bullshit jobs and invented professions came with the Top-Down system. Incentivisation turbocharged the rejection of the risks that come with responsibility, building a backroom culture that gave license to the demand for more of everything whilst at the same time giving less.

Just because someone has been a manager, it doesn’t necessarily follow that they can manage. But a plumber is almost certain to know how to plumb.

When it comes to having food to eat and all the basics that anyone will need, everyone will need to quickly lose the ego that tells them they are this, they are that or they are anything that makes them different.

Everyone will need to fulfil any role that means that in return for having their fair share of everything that they need that is available, they are contributing whatever they have that can bring value to all in return.

If everything breaks down and we are forced to navigate our way through and experience a period of civil or social disorder, we cannot be reliant upon the integrity of any person being reflected in the role or position of responsibility that they previously held.

When everyone is afraid, even the people we think can normally be relied upon because of who they are or what they do, are likely put their own interests before those of anyone else.

There will always be people present in any crisis who are ready and willing to exploit the fears of others to benefit themselves.

Stay with and around people you know before anyone else, and then only with people you are already aware of or recognise. Do not extend this circle to other people until you have together defined and agreed upon any rules you will use to define who you can trust.