Thanks for the huge compliment! :) Happy to hear you liked this post that much! I tend to put a lot of time in my posts here as I want them to be good and hopefully have a positive impact on people.
The start is indeed always the hardest! I kind of learned to enjoy the process now and not having the end goal as my focus point and that really helped me a lot!!! :)
Good luck with your photoshop adventure! :)