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The concept is called a monetorium. Its a moratorium on unnecessary spending, trying to funnel the most amount of funds towards your goal.
This is something i must master if I am ever to leave this place.
I have improved alittle. my bills are being paid on time. I’ve cut down on the number of things i buy, like movies, games and such not. I’ve cut out magazines almost completely.
My current nemesis is food. I spend inifintely too much on it, and on all the wrong, unhealthy choices as well. This is where i must cut down. My beloved Slushies must be stopped! buying food downtown is also a bad idea. and in preparation, i must try to eat better too.
So now that it has a name, the Monetorium is in effect!
Setting forth into world is something that I have often thought of, but have never really considered seriously. As I run through my full time job, the same basic job i’ve been doing for four years selling people the gear they use to get out and do some truely amazing things, I find myself wanting that. I want to go out and see things that I have never seen before, go places rarely touched and experienced by human-kind. I’m tired of living my boring but safe life, leading on a road straight to my death without any excitement along the way.
I feel like I need to see whats out there, that i won’t know what i want from life till i really experience it, to live out in the world beyond my small Toronto apartment. I feel it might be responsible in part for my failures as a creative person, that i just don’t know the world well enough to give my impression of it life. That also may be an excuse, but I’ll go with that.
I feel like this is something i can run with for the time being, that i can actually make it happen one day… a real obtainable goal. Been a long time since I’ve had one of those. We’ll talk about goals in a different post, but its nice to bring some focus into life every now and then. As I recently told a friend, I’ve been coasting through life, and i need to give it some direction and drive.
That’s why I want to do this, why I’ll leave my quiet life and go out into the big scary world.
So, Welcome to Tech Mountain Gear, Mk 2.
Whats different you might ask? Well the focus has changed, and the whole point is to discover the world of travel through the eyes of a novice, someone who knows the gear, sold the gear, but has yet to put it into action. That would be me. I have a strong but basic outdoors background, and the largest trip i’ve done was a three week family car vacation in the UK. So truely this will be an epic undertaking, as i amass the funds, collect the gear and set out to see whats out there.
Lets begin…
