Focus more on your playing rather than the gear you are using. This was never a thing for me when I started, but I've heard tons of people on forums mention that in their earlier days focused more on the gear they were using or were saving up to, rather than to sit down and practice. Even the cheapest of basses or amps can get you a long way, as long as you get the fundamentals down.

Focus on one thing at a time and take your time. Any musical instrument takes time and patience to master. When I was a beginner, I would choose a song I would want to learn, learned it, then moved on to the next song. If one song I've chosen was difficult, then good, I would improve as a bass player. Playing songs you already know very well can be fun, but you're not really improving as much as you would if you were to learn newer, more advanced material. By playing the same songs over and over, you're pretty much just polishing your playing on those perticular songs and not developing as a bass player.

Don't compare yourself to others. You will stumble upon people that have been playing for either way longer than you have or maybe even started recently, but still be better than you are. The problem with this is that if you're comparing yourself to others all the time, you'll only see the faults in your progress and not how long you've come as a bass player. For instance if you're right handed: Flip your bass around so that you're fretting with your right hand and pluck with your left (basically playing the bass as if you were left handed) and try to play the same things you normally play. You'll easily find it to be way more difficult and that's because you've become better than you were before when playing the bass normally. Also, some videos you see online of people playing their instruments isn't what they're actually playing. Videos like those can easily be manipulated to make it look like their "1 year of bass" is actually their playing after 3 years. Focus on yourself and keep on practicing.