It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
Dig your well before you're thirsty.
Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.
Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.
Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.