spread thin

I’m curious about the possibility of doing something really well when it’s not the only thing I do.

Meaning, I can see how athletes or major businesspeople do well when they focus on their ONE goal, practically to the exclusion of all else.

But I don’t want to do that. I’m interested in too many things.

So, am I spreading myself too thin?

People have accused me of this in the past, and for the most part I haven’t felt that way, mostly because I know I can only do one thing at a time. And so, I do.

But now I’m wondering if I haven’t gotten as far as I’d like because I have so many interests and do so many things. Is that bad? Or neutral? Or actively good?

I don’t spend my days with monomania on any particular goal. There are multitudes. I spend time at my day job and at writing, at exercising and reading, at spending time with my family and being alone. At being a parent and a partner and at focusing on things I want. But any one of those things could be my entire life.

Thoughts? Is it better to be singularly focused? Or am I, to paraphrase Bilbo Baggins, too little butter scraped over too much bread?