- Visualize your goal, perfectly and clearly.
- Realize your strengths and focus on them, ignore your weaknesses.
- Dedicate time for "practice" and for harnessing you strengths.
- When you get discouraged, go back to your goal and that vision.
- This is not work, this is something you love.
[-slightly paraphrased]
Thanks to @guitarlifestyle -[LINK TO POST] for showing this to me.