“Aspiring artists share one trait. They all think like amateurs. They have not yet turned pro. The moment an artist turns pro is as epochal as the birth of his first child. With one stroke, everything changes.”
Make 2025 the year that you turn pro in whatever your art may be. Take it seriously. Put in the work. The rewards await you. Go read The War of Art. Then get to it. The muse only shows up if you are there waiting to meet her.