It is great that you are actually concretely witnessing that you have improved upon your earlier less good practices, and surely one of the BIGGER tests seems to be getting through a whole bitcoin cycle, and surely based on your forum registration date, you are not quite one year registered on the forum, so it can take time to build up and also to make sure that you have actually improved upon your past mistakes.  It is so frequently that so many folks will feel like geniuses during a bull market (including that we have been in a bull market for two years), yet there can be a lot of challenges to get through a whole cycle without getting distracted into trading, gambling or the premature employment of selling tactics to try to increase your bitcoin stash size.. and so there are plenty of forum members who proclaim that they are investing into bitcoin, yet they cannot even make it through a whole cycle without selling BTC, even when they may well had not even accumulated any kind of meaningful BTC stash.. so yeah, individual circumstances vary, which seems to be part of the justification that we should not be proclaiming ourselves to be BTC "investment" geniuses prior to getting through a whole cycle and potentially having actual past practices in our history to see how we might have had dealt with the whole cycle or even a couple of cycles if we are not really in any position to front-load our BTC investment in any kind of meaningful and/or materially significant way.

We do not necessarily need to disclose specifics of our own personal finances or our OpSec kinds of matters in order to be able to analyze some of the meaningful practices (and progress) of 1- 2 whole bitcoin cycles.