Recently, I was at a blogging event and felt like something was wrong with one of my social media accounts. I made a comment about it to a fellow blogger and her comment back to me was “this is why you don’t but all your eggs in one basket”. Of course, I stewed about the account for a while but what she said really resonated with me. We’ve all heard the “eggs in one basket” metaphor before, but now more than ever in my life, they are truly words to live by.
For the social media/blogging portion of my life, relying on one platform to support me is ridiculous. For times like this, when you feel like something is wrong with an account, all your hard work could come to a grinding halt. I know there are a lot of people out there that think that blogging is just getting free stuff and going to fun events. I wish that was the case. Don’t get me wrong, I am not complaining about the work it takes to blog, I am actually quite proud of the work I do, but I wish people outside the blogging realm understood the time it takes to actually maintain a blog.
In life, you can never put all your eggs in that one basket, for many reasons.
- Doing the same things over and over again gets boring. Try something never, you never know where it will take you. Maybe you will discover that you are really good at something that you never imagined yourself doing.
- Life will not always go as planned. There will be curves and bumps in the road. Remember that detailed birth plan you worked so hard on, only to end up with an emergency c-section and all those plans going right out the window?
- Always counting on something will never allow you to see what else is out there. Sure, the grass is not always greener on the other side, but you won’t know until you try.
- You always want to be growing as a person, not one of those eggs just sitting in that basket.
So no matter how pretty that basket is that you have, never settle….always be wanting for more. You never know what could be out there.
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