It was over 12 months before i started getting results, sounds like you have already made good progress.

Your get past those sticking points in time, yeah keep trying,but make sure you give yourself enough time to reflex over your approaches, so you can work out what went well, and not so well.

For me i felt approaching 4 - 5 times a night was enough, then i would reflex over them.

Somthing i found very helpful was watching the pick up artist series/keys to the vip, pausing them at certain parts, understanding why somthing worked or didnt, and adding my own input.