since most items have a base quality of 10, a basic goal would be getting some of the basic skills to 10 atleast so that you wont lower the quality on your basic items, so survival, exploration, carpentry, farming, is probably the first skills you should try and get to the basic level of 10.
use the wiki to get some ideas of how things work
http://havenandhearth.wikia.com/wiki/Haven_and_Hearth_Wikisince it looks like you live near a river, i would also suggest you try and get the Boat Building skill, you need fishing and carpentry skill first. once you have a boat you are able to move fast and have a better chance of finding some nice reasourses in your aria, find moars for easy access to chickens and such, find swamp for leaches, find leafwood aria to get apples, nuts, mullberry etc. and get a general idea of your suroundings, like nearby settlements and such.