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Our first new video collection in 3 years goes reside immediately. (Yay for attending to RV internationally once more!)
You can watch the primary video on Youtube.
The vlog collection continues with our theme of worldwide RV journey. We spent 30 days touring throughout the countryside of France, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain.
A couple of of the highlights & movies to return:
- Sharing how we journey & sleep in a small RV with two little children (simply my greatest worry earlier than the journey)
- Our reactions to visiting a French nationwide park (after I consider France I consider the meals and the Paris tradition and never essentially the nationwide parks however WOW)
- The time we tried to go to one of many smallest nations in Europe however as an alternative bought meals poisoning and I handed out
- How the Harvest Hosts program in France is EPIC and what wineries stays are like over there
- And way more
While I’m excited to share extra of the movies on this collection, I additionally needed to share the inspiration and get up name that led to us occurring this journey within the first place.
What to do when desires change?
I just lately sat down and shared a studying record of 100 of my high books. One I learn final 12 months was referred to as the Paradox of Choice, and a lot of it has caught with me.
There’s a quote particularly I really like:
“We get what we say we want, only to discover that what we want doesn’t satisfy us to the degree that we expect.”
The ebook goes on to speak about how we regularly are horrible at realizing what selections will truly make us blissful. We base future selections off of knowledge that’s largely skewed in our reminiscence.
For instance, relating to a reminiscence of a weeklong trip — we’re extra more likely to bear in mind the height second or the way it ended. Even if the week was boring however ended with a bang, we’d think about it a large success. Our mind remembers the height and the tip and sometimes forgets how we felt throughout the vast majority of the week-long trip.
There have been much more examples, however the level is that we regularly don’t bear in mind with accuracy how one thing actually made us really feel. Yet, we use that flawed earlier information to make future selections about what we would need.
Well, earlier this summer season I bought one thing I needed:
Time.
Over the final 12 months, we offered a couple of companies and after a 12 months of vesting with my new employer, I stop.
On high {of professional} time, Alyssa and I gained some private time with some childcare assist (one thing else we’d been desperately trying to find).
I bear in mind sitting down at my laptop throughout our first day with childcare and feeling euphoric. This was it. This was the second we’d been ready for. We had time to breathe and dream up what we wish to do subsequent in life and enterprise.
Then I journaled some extra. Then I opened a ebook. Put that ebook down and bought one other one. Left my laptop to go outdoors and do a challenge I’d been pushing aside. Came again inside to do some extra “work” on my laptop (had nothing to work on, most likely scrolled Twitter). Twenty minutes later I went to the health club to shoot some baskets. Then it was 5 o’clock and time to choose up Ellie from college.
This went on for a couple of days.
Then every week handed.
I began leaving round two or three to go decide up Ellie as a result of I missed her and needed to hang around and play.
I began realizing this dream I’d positioned on a pedestal truly was type of boring.
Or perhaps I used to be boring, I don’t know.
A thought began to happen to me as I grappled with my boredom.
Maybe the imaginative and prescient for our lives on this season appears to be like completely different than I’d thought. I’d imagined Alyssa and I might hand around in Colorado, perhaps begin or purchase a brand new enterprise or discover a new challenge.
But as I sat at my laptop, nothing referred to as to me. I spotted there was no work I’d reasonably be doing greater than spending treasured time with our children.
For years I’d achieved a journaling observe the place I requested myself the query of, “If I could do anything with my day, what would I do?”
And for the primary time in my life we truly might reply that query in actuality and never in principle.
What I spotted is that if I might design my excellent day and reduce potential future remorse, it might seem like occurring superior adventures and making reminiscences as a household.
So that’s what we determined to do. We booked a a technique RV rental from Paris to Barcelona and spent the final month gallivanting across the European countryside consuming extra meals (and visiting extra playgrounds) than I ever thought potential.
Sometimes I really feel prefer it’s not okay to vary my thoughts.
I like placing large targets on the horizon and pointing towards them and getting after it. But generally a brand new child comes and rapidly that dream appears much less vital. Or perhaps you notice that your dream is definitely meh and also you don’t need it in spite of everything.
I nonetheless love arising with large concepts to pursue and chasing desires makes life fascinating and provides me hope.
But generally, desires change. That’s okay too.
If you wish to see what got here out of my life epiphany, you may watch the primary vlog of our France RV journey ????