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All yr, 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 are able to develop and scale our companies and go on adventures and be good dad and mom. Because 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. Lots.
Even to issues we knew we might’ve liked to do! Like:
- Host a TV present
- Partner 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!!!)
- Film a industrial for an RV supplier
But 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 far-off.
Or we weren’t actually certified.
Now don’t get me unsuitable, saying no to all these items was the best name. Saying sure to every part would pull us in too many instructions and overwhelm us.
But.
BUT.
Then I began considering of different alternatives. Not the exterior ones, however the ones in my head. Little goals 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 after 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 time. And once I met up with my good friend Barb in August, I actually sat on my fingers to maintain myself from blurting out this venture concept though I knew she would like it and encourage me to do it.
Because 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. Besides I’m too busy.
Even after I dismissed the thought, I discovered myself enthusiastic about it.
Dreaming about it.
Watching TV reveals that impressed much more concepts about it…
And I began enthusiastic about why we selected this RV way of life within the first place, the issues we discuss consistently on our weblog and podcast:
1. The freedom to personal our day
2. An opportunity to by no means stand nonetheless and at all times push ourselves ahead
3. A strategy to outline our lives and companies on our personal phrases
4. How we create our perfect steadiness between work and journey and life
And I spotted I’d type of be the most important 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…
Sometime final yr, 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 cook dinner all day. And then eat all day. The RV would scent AMAZING on a regular basis. I’d personal a brilliant cute apron. People would in all probability provide me my very own cooking present so I can stay my childhood dream and cross “host a TV show” off my bucket listing. I’d in all probability 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 certain, there’s nonetheless all the opposite blogging-as-a-business stuff like product growth, development methods, electronic mail advertising, visitors, blah blah blah. But 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, it is a dream. My precise charcuterie boards seem like this:
This is why I weblog about RV entrepreneurship as a substitute!
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 Great British Baking Competition on Saturday mornings if we did and that’s clearly too essential to overlook.
But I found out a strategy to stay out my dream job, if just for per week.
I emailed my good friend Barb—who labored within the meals business for years and taught a number of cooking courses—and advised her this loopy concept I’d been sitting on for months.
With extra full-time RVers on the highway this yr and so many individuals not getting collectively in individual for the vacations this yr, what if we did a cooking present on easy methods to rejoice Thanksgiving in your RV? You know, recipes you can also make even in case you don’t have an oven or suggestions for planning a Thanksgiving feast once you positively can’t cook 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 stay on Facebook.
RV Foodie Kitchen: Holiday Cooking Show
Along with Barb (AKA RV Foodie Kitchen), we’ve shared the thought with a number of associates who all agreed to companion with us on this enjoyable group occasion. We’ll be sharing movies and recipes from our associates at RV Love, RV Geeks, The Virtual Campground, Wandering Wagners, and plenty of different superb 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: Side dishes
Wednesday, 11/18: Entrees
Thursday, 11/19, AKA one of the best day: Desserts ????
Friday, 11/20: Snacks & Drinks
You can study extra and get reminders when the present begins right here.
I’m actually excited to deliver this venture 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 wish to share a bit vacation cheer! (Okay, and who additionally actually like consuming.)
Plus, we’re compiling an RV group cookbook with all of the recipes from the present that you simply’ll be capable to obtain at no cost. You may even submit your personal recipe, in case you’d prefer to be included within the cookbook.
This goes to be enjoyable.
It’s going to provide me further work to do proper earlier than the vacations, sure.
It’s going to make $0, sure.
It is on no account business-related, aside from that we’ll host the Facebook stay movies on our Heath & Alyssa Facebook web page.
But it’s going to imply doing one thing I’ve been enthusiastic about for months, with superb 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 in the course of the holidays rising up. And that’s okay. It’s what Heath and I name making a high quality of life resolution (extra on that subsequent week). 
So in case you’re on the lookout for suggestions and recipes for how one can rejoice the vacations in your RV this yr, I hope you get the possibility to tune in.
Now Ellie and I must go observe our baking! (Yep we bake on the ground typically so Ellie might help with out attempting to leap off the counter/desk/dinnette/and so forth. #momlife)