Getting an income out of your online business is something different.
Different and/is not Difficult

The single biggest piece of advice every marketer gave:
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"Believes create miracles"

Until you really believe that you can achieve the sort of income you're looking for online, you'll never take the necessary actions to get achieve your goals.
Many people will procrastinate and do things only when they have no other choice.
You got to set yourself an ultimatum. If you don't get this to work, what will happen?
You'll just give up and go back to the rat race?
You must treat this as your business and not a hobby.
If you're always on the 'learning mode" and not doing, it's a hobby.

You may know what you need to do to succeed but actually taking the steps to do it is a whole different story. Why people don't do things even though they know they need to. You're not taking action because you don't see the immediate impact of your efforts. That's because you're focusing on the process and not the result.

For people who are confused, they don't know where to begin and they're confused with the technology. Frustration crisped in.

Reduce your confusion is to take one step at a time.
And always Get The First Steps Right.
Don't try to learn everything at once.
Confusion can only be reduced through experience.
If you don't take action on what you've learned then you will get no experience.

Don't ever give up because you don't know how to work a program.
Again, focus on the results, not the process.
You only need to learn something once, and you can use that knowledge to produce your income many times.

Ask other people and search around the forums to find an answer for your confusion. There's no such thing as a stupid question. Start visiting forums, you'll find the most helpful people there, if you are willing and humble enough to ask for answers.