Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.
There's no map for being an artist.
It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.
Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.
Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.