That is a good @OP. At least, you know what you want to do. This year will not come easily as the last year as the big bull run is already happening in the last year but we still have a chance to see another bull run come this year. As long as you can make a good plan and stick with your plan, you will get a good result. Finance management will be necessary so you know how much money you should use to invest in crypto and how you will diversify your investment. But as usual, do not just stick to altcoin but focusing on bitcoin will be better as bitcoin will be your main investment.
We do not need to have a big bull to make a lot of profit. The important part is to be stable, when the market is stable then you can calculate how much you could make. For example, if I invest into cake and stake it and make 100% return after one year, that means 1 cake I own will become 2 cakes. However, if the price drops 50% then I made zero income, but if the price moves 100% then I made 4x instead of 2x. When you do not have a stable market and end up with huge volatility like crypto, then you can't make predictions about how much you could earn in a single year.
This is why I believe that we should not be focusing on getting up all the time, sometimes we just need to focus on staying the same level. I am not saying that bitcoin should be 50k all year without ever moving, but at least make all the moves a bit more slower instead of hyped super increases in a week or super crashes in a day.
Most people expect to have a big bull run because that is their way to profit. It is what is in their mind so they start asking others about the coins that will be profitable to hold in the short term without trying to research themselves. Most of them do not know how long they should hold their coins and although they save I want to have a long-term investment, they still do not know when they need to sell the coin, even if they meet the top price.
However, we know that crypto has big volatility and it is why if people do not analyze the crypto movement, they will not find the right coins to buy. These situations are good for building a portfolio or managing our portfolio as the price seems not to go anywhere high or low. But if we are not careful, we can hold the coin for some time without knowing when the price will be back to the high price. I like to see bitcoin going up and down many times every day because we can use it for our benefits which means, we can buy low and sell high. If we can do that, maybe we can get a stable profit although the percentage of the profit will not always be the same, that is still profit to us.