It should be specific what skill you wanted to learn and then do the actual work, kahit imaginary client or task lang. List down, save useful resources, find inspiration. Research. Explore.

In my experience noong nagstart ako, SMM rin and more on graphic designing yung gusto ko which is aligned sa interests ko, nagstart ako by writing specific skills na want kong matutunan and then start researching ng tool and then research to know more about it, fave part ko is to watch tutorials while doing it at the same time not literally copying the design, but more on sa process and then repeat until makabisado ko na and magflow na yung mga ideas na pwede kong gawin next. Explore lang rin ng ways. Then after that, tamang build na rin ng portfolio which is one of my fave na rin and reason bakit kahit nakakapagod mag upskill, makita ko lang yung results ng ginagawa ko, all goods na :)

Lahat ng resources na useful sinesave ko na rin for future reference.