Put All Your Eggs in One Basket: The Case for Taking on One Self-Reliance Skill at a Time

Put all your eggs in one basket instead of juggling too many baskets, by giving your dedication to one new self-reliance skill at a time.

By Niche Brislane
Updated on June 1, 2022
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by Niche Brislane

Slow and steady wins the race when taking on new self-reliance projects. It’s easy to take too many projects on and struggle to juggle them all while shouldering the learning curve of new experience. It’s important to tread the waters lightly. For many who are following along, it will be so easy to see the dollars you’ve saved by changing your consumer habits and immediately want to spread that saved wealth across many projects. We want so badly to have a little of everything because we feel like time is running out as we watch the news.

With that being said, yes the news and state of our society merits the concern and the urgency. This is the main driving force for so many that decide they need to secure as much self-sufficiency in their daily lives as much as possible. Fiscal instability is on the rise, and you may feel like the cost of the things you will need to start projects means waiting is going to put them out of reach. Things are concerning and yes the urgency has merit. However there is a system for success that is nearly foolproof for those willing to trust and take these projects on singularly.

Given these consideration, why on earth should we not jump right in and secure as much security as we can, as soon as we can? I offer five basic reasons for why going slow increases our rate of success and, in turn, helps us move on to those other projects.

Self-Sufficiency Requires Full Focus

Have you ever been cooking and got a phone call or other distraction that took your attention away just long enough that you overcooked pasta, burnt the biscuits, or otherwise made a mistake that wouldn’t have happened if you had given it your undivided attention? That along with many other instances are unavoidable. Life has a way of dropping the unexpected in your life, causing distraction, lack of focus or simply delaying whatever you’re trying to do.

Knowing that distraction is the inevitability of life, you want to avoid setting yourself up for the same when taking on multiple projects. Starting one project at a time allows you to give it as much focus as possible while still affording you the grace of unexpected distractions that come with life.

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