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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 mother and father. As a result of the extra you develop any enterprise (or any weblog/Youtube channel/and many others), the extra alternatives you discover.
And extra alternatives means saying no. Rather a lot.
Even to issues we knew we’d’ve cherished to do! Like:
- Host a TV present
- Companion 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 business for an RV supplier
However we had been too busy.
Or it didn’t match with our content material technique.
Or it was simply unhealthy timing.
Or we had been too distant.
Or we weren’t actually certified.
Now don’t get me improper, saying no to all this stuff was the precise name. Saying sure to every thing would pull us in too many instructions and overwhelm us.
However.
BUT.
Then I began considering of different alternatives. Not the exterior ones, however the ones in my head. Little goals of tasks and merchandise that I’d like to pursue, however that I all the time 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 mates 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 pal Barb in August, I actually sat on my arms to maintain myself from blurting out this venture concept despite the fact 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. Moreover I’m too busy.
Even after I dismissed the thought, I discovered myself desirous about it.
Dreaming about it.
Watching TV exhibits that impressed much more concepts about it…
And I began desirous about why we selected this RV life-style within the first place, the issues we discuss always on our weblog and podcast:
1. The liberty to personal our day
2. An opportunity to by no means stand nonetheless and all the time push ourselves ahead
3. A strategy to outline our lives and companies on our personal phrases
4. How we create our preferrred steadiness between work and journey and life
And I spotted I’d type of be the largest hypocrite on this planet 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 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. After which eat all day. The RV would odor AMAZING on a regular basis. I’d personal a brilliant cute apron. Folks would most likely supply me my very own cooking present so I can dwell my childhood dream and cross “host a TV present” off my bucket listing. I’d most likely want to begin 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, development methods, e mail advertising, 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:
That 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 Nice British Baking Competitors on Saturday mornings if we did and that’s clearly too necessary to overlook.
However I found out a strategy to dwell out my dream job, if just for per week.
I emailed my pal 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 street this yr and so many individuals not getting collectively in particular person for the vacations this yr, what if we did a cooking present on the way to have fun Thanksgiving in your RV? You realize, recipes you can also make even for those who don’t have an oven or ideas for planning a Thanksgiving feast once you undoubtedly 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 quick weeks, Barb and I are internet hosting our very personal cooking present dwell on Fb.
RV Foodie Kitchen: Vacation Cooking Present
Together with Barb (AKA RV Foodie Kitchen), we’ve shared the thought with a number of mates who all agreed to accomplice with us on this enjoyable neighborhood occasion. We’ll be sharing movies and recipes from our mates at RV Love, RV Geeks, The Digital Campground, Wandering Wagners, and lots 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: Facet dishes
Wednesday, 11/18: Entrees
Thursday, 11/19, AKA the perfect day: Desserts 😋
Friday, 11/20: Snacks & Drinks
You possibly 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 mates. We aren’t promoting something. We’re only a bunch of people that love cooking in our RVs who wish to share a little bit 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 simply’ll have the ability to obtain without spending a dime. You possibly can even submit your individual recipe, for those who’d prefer to be included within the cookbook.
That is going to be enjoyable.
It’s going to offer me additional work to do proper earlier than the vacations, sure.
It’s going to make $0, sure.
It’s by no means business-related, apart from that we’ll host the Fb dwell movies on our Heath & Alyssa Fb web page.
Nevertheless it’s going to imply doing one thing I’ve been desirous 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 all the time made in the course of the holidays rising up. And that’s okay. It’s what Heath and I name making a top quality of life choice (extra on that subsequent week). 
So for those who’re searching for ideas and recipes for how one can have fun the vacations in your RV this yr, I hope you get the possibility to tune in.
Now Ellie and I must go follow our baking! (Yep we bake on the ground generally so Ellie might help with out making an attempt to leap off the counter/desk/dinnette/and many others. #momlife)