Creativity means being willing to embarrass your current taste while developing future skill.

Skill is built by producing work that your taste can already see is not good enough. There is no route that skips this, because taste runs ahead and its whole function is to be dissatisfied. The embarrassment is a byproduct of learning, not evidence against it.

Expect to dislike a good deal of what you make this year. Finish the pieces anyway, since finishing teaches things that abandoning does not. Look back after enough time and use the discomfort as a measurement of how far your standards have moved.