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All 12 months, we’ve been speaking about steadiness.
It was our theme for our 2020 RVE Summit: discover your steadiness.
It’s been a relentless dialogue between Heath & me on how we will develop and scale our companies and go on adventures and be good mother and father. As a result of the extra you develop any enterprise (or any weblog/Youtube channel/and so forth), the extra alternatives you discover.
And extra alternatives means saying no. Loads.
Even to issues we knew we might’ve cherished to do! Like:
- Host a TV present
- Associate with an organization to construct 100 campgrounds within the subsequent 5 years
- Camp at a luxurious resort on the coast of Oregon (this one retains me up at night time. It’s so fairly!!!)
- Movie a industrial for an RV vendor
However we have been too busy.
Or it didn’t match with our content material technique.
Or it was simply dangerous timing.
Or we have been too distant.
Or we weren’t actually certified.
Now don’t get me flawed, saying no to all this stuff was the precise name. Saying sure to all the things would pull us in too many instructions and overwhelm us.
However.
BUT.
Then I began pondering of different alternatives. Not the exterior ones, however the ones in my head. Little desires of initiatives and merchandise that I’d like to pursue, however that I at all times nixed for any of the above causes.
There’s this one which began simmering in my head again in June once we spent a month caravanning with associates and consuming meals collectively. It grew as we had family and friends camp with us over the summer season. And after I met up with my good friend Barb in August, I actually sat on my arms to maintain myself from blurting out this challenge thought regardless that I knew she would adore it and encourage me to do it.
As a result of as enjoyable as it will be, it wasn’t very RV entrepreneurial.
It didn’t make any sense to waste time on it because it wouldn’t make any cash or develop my enterprise. Apart from I’m too busy.
Even after I dismissed the thought, I discovered myself occupied with it.
Dreaming about it.
Watching TV reveals that impressed much more concepts about it…
And I began occupied with why we selected this RV way of life within the first place, the issues we discuss continuously on our weblog and podcast:
1. The liberty to personal our day
2. An opportunity to by no means stand nonetheless and at all times push ourselves ahead
3. A technique to outline our lives and companies on our personal phrases
4. How we create our supreme steadiness between work and journey and life
And I spotted I’d form of be the largest hypocrite on the earth if I’ve spent years speaking about how being an RV entrepreneur offers you a lot freedom and time after which I actively select not to pursue this little dream of mine.
So again to my dream job…
Someday final 12 months, I spotted that as a lot as I really like RVing and running a blog and journey, a brand new dream job nestled itself within the nook of my thoughts.
I’d LOVE to be a meals blogger.
Guys, I might prepare dinner all day. After which eat all day. The RV would scent AMAZING on a regular basis. I’d personal a brilliant cute apron. Individuals would most likely supply me my very own cooking present so I can reside my childhood dream and cross “host a TV present” off my bucket checklist. I’d most likely want to start out exercising extra to maintain up with the elevated caloric consumption, however that’s par for the course. I’ll do yoga for pumpkin chocolate chip bread.
I imply positive, there’s nonetheless all the opposite blogging-as-a-business stuff like product improvement, progress methods, electronic mail advertising, site visitors, blah blah blah. However I’ve been doing that for years. That boring stuff I do know. I might do all that stuff WHILE nibbling on an Instagram-worthy charcuterie board of scrumptious cheese.
(Hey, this can be a dream. My precise charcuterie boards appear like this:
This is the reason I weblog about RV entrepreneurship as an alternative!
So I’m not beginning a meals weblog.
We don’t want a fourth enterprise within the Padgett family. I’d by no means have the time to observe the Nice British Baking Competitors on Saturday mornings if we did and that’s clearly too necessary to overlook.
However I discovered a technique to reside out my dream job, if just for per week.
I emailed my good friend Barb—who labored within the meals trade for years and taught a number of cooking lessons—and informed her this loopy thought I’d been sitting on for months.
With extra full-time RVers on the highway this 12 months and so many individuals not getting collectively in particular person for the vacations this 12 months, what if we did a cooking present on the right way to have a good time Thanksgiving in your RV? You realize, recipes you may make even when you don’t have an oven or ideas for planning a Thanksgiving feast while you positively can’t prepare dinner a full turkey.
She was in.
Which is nice for you, as a result of her recipes are SO MUCH BETTER than mine.
So in two brief weeks, Barb and I are internet hosting our very personal cooking present reside on Fb.
RV Foodie Kitchen: Vacation Cooking Present
Together with Barb (AKA RV Foodie Kitchen), we’ve shared the thought with a couple of associates who all agreed to associate with us on this enjoyable neighborhood occasion. We’ll be sharing movies and recipes from our associates at RV Love, RV Geeks, The Digital Campground, Wandering Wagners, and lots of different wonderful RV cooks to create a weeklong RV cooking present. It’s going to look one thing like this:
Monday, 11/16: Appetizers and no-oven-needed recipes
Tuesday, 11/17: Aspect dishes
Wednesday, 11/18: Entrees
Thursday, 11/19, AKA one of the best day: Desserts 😋
Friday, 11/20: Snacks & Drinks
You may study extra and get reminders when the present begins right here.
I’m actually excited to convey this challenge to life with so many associates. We aren’t promoting something. We’re only a bunch of people that love cooking in our RVs who need to share somewhat vacation cheer! (Okay, and who additionally actually like consuming.)
Plus, we’re compiling an RV neighborhood cookbook with all of the recipes from the present that you just’ll have the ability to obtain at no cost. You may even submit your individual recipe, when you’d wish to be included within the cookbook.
That is going to be enjoyable.
It’s going to present me further work to do proper earlier than the vacations, sure.
It’s going to make $0, sure.
It’s on no account business-related, apart from that we’ll host the Fb reside movies on our Heath & Alyssa Fb web page.
However it’s going to imply doing one thing I’ve been occupied with for months, with wonderful individuals who I really like, AND on the finish of the day I’m going to make and eat 100 of the chocolate candies my mother at all times made through the holidays rising up. And that’s okay. It’s what Heath and I name making a top quality of life determination (extra on that subsequent week). 
So when you’re searching for ideas and recipes for how one can have a good time the vacations in your RV this 12 months, I hope you get the possibility to tune in.
Now Ellie and I have to go observe our baking! (Yep we bake on the ground generally so Ellie might help with out attempting to leap off the counter/desk/dinnette/and so forth. #momlife)