For the longest time, I was unsure of what style of photography I wanted to focus on. My previous routine was to take photos and add whatever preset I thought looked nice, and nothing more. There is nothing wrong with that, and truthfully I believed it helped me learn the basics of editing, and how different colours can affect the narrative of my images, however, it made all of my photos very inconsistent, and it made editing and shooting alot more difficult when I was unsure of what style I intended to go for with my final images. The best advice i've heard when learning photography, was to find a photographer whose style you like, and copy it. Obviously dont copy their images 1:1, but you can try and mimic their editing style on your own photos. For me, this was the style of James Popsys. I was always captivated by the unique style of being on the border of overexposed, while still capturing all of the detail in the photo. From there, I learned how to edit my photos like that, and I almost instantly felt like my images looked better, and i was so much more consistent. Finding what style of photography i wanted to pursue allowed me to progress even further, by adapting the copied style and changing it into my own style. I was no longer adding a preset and leaving it, but rather adding presets, and changing them to further meet my style, and adding masks to make the images my own. I think the main takeaway from this, is to find your style as early as possible, and keep working on it, and adapting it to make something unique to you, and to make yourself stand out in a highly competitive market.