My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Talent gets most of the credit and explains less than people think. Steady application, returning to the same work day after day when it is dull and nobody is watching, is what actually accumulates. Calling your own abilities ordinary is not modesty here; it is a description of where the results came from.

Pick the one thing you want to be good at and give it a fixed hour, on the days you feel like it and the days you do not. Count the weeks rather than the sessions. What looks like a gift from outside is usually this, continued past the point where most people stop.