Is it difficult to be professional? I think from my experience in my long life that profession can be reached by following several tips help to achieve profession:
1 - Put a goal in a specific field or subject.
2 - Put a structured plan to your field or subject of profession.
3 - Use if-then analysis and expect the difficulties that you are going to face in your progress to be professional and how you are going to mange each.
4 - Evaluates your progress with your plan and make any needed adjustments.
5 - In your progress towered your goal remember this statement "when you do a thing do it perfectly".
6 - Have several plans within your main plan when plan A doesn't work directly switches to plan B.
Finally, remember that Profession is surrounded with thousands of difficulties and overcoming theses difficulties make you Professional.