Patience, practice and persistence
Yes, this is pretty much it. Do not underestimate the importance of patience: treat LD practice as a journey (lucid living) rather than a destination (lucid every night), celebrate successes, and don't sweat the occasional dry spell. Keep building confidence and more and more abilities, which with persistent practice, will absolutely grow.
For practice, I recommend:
1) build and maintain excellent dream recall -- get "close" to your dreams and be highly aware of them -- Sensei calls this "dream awareness."
2) Cultivate continuous mindfulness (of your self: your thoughts, actions, reactions, and your state: dream or awake) -- pay attention, whenever you realize you've "zoned out," just "tune back in". Meditation is excellent practice to build and maintain mindfulness.
3) realize that at any given conscious moment, you could actually be dreaming, especially at the moment of returning to being "tuned in" after being "zoned out" for a while.
If you're an absolute beginner I'd recommend starting with a pure LaBerge approach before jumping into #2 and #3. Get some DILDs under your belt first, and build strong dream recall. I didn't start #2 and #3 until about 8 months into my practice, at which point they really made a lot of sense to me.
You may need to wrack up a few hundred non-lucid dreams in your DJ and get a few dozen DILDs before #2 and #3 make sense to you ( not just intellectually, but viscerally, really *feeling* how important they are).
But if you "get it" earlier, don't hold yourself back and jump right into them!
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