There is, as I'm sure others will tell you, a huge difference between taking photos for fun and doing it professionally. Unless you become so good that people hire you for YOUR vision, most professional photographers get paid for delivering to the client the CLIENT'S vision, and the photographer's contribution is to have the skills, technical knowledge and equipment to make that happen.
As for being good at doing everything - well everything is a very large field, and many skills in photography are particular to that area. For instance, studio lighting, preparation and presentation can take a number of years of study to perfect, and much of that knowledge is useless if you're doing in-the-field sports photography. Underlying all of the fields that you could work at getting good at, are certain basics: Thoroughly understanding your equipment (camera, flash, accessories), having a good grasp on how to use light (both "found" light and "made" light), being able to use compositional elements in an image to capture and sustain interest, knowing how to engage and pose a subject to create good portraits, are some of the basics that will you to move towards your potential. You also have to decide whether your're doing it for yourself (a perfectly good way to enjoy photography), or you're doing it for others (in which case knowing what it is that others look for in images becomes very important).
There are, to my way of thinking, four parts to image-making: 1) Conception, 2) Staging, 3) execution, 4) post-processing. Each contributes something different to the process. Conception is the planning, elaboration of a story or concept, an mental arrangements of elements that need to be in place for an image to have meaning and/or interest. Staging is the arranging of the subject matter in terms of location, posing, staging, lighting, and so forth - essentially the "preparation" part of any planned shoot. Execution is the actual picture taking, ensuring that the exposure is correct, that the DOF covers what it needs to cover, that the background and foreground are either suitably blurred or sharp (depending on the purpose of the image), that the focus is on the right point, etc. Post-processing is the transformation of the image from the camera to an image that you will present to the world, and includes sharpening, tone curve adjustment, cloning out bits that shouldn't be there, ensuring the right colour balance, cropping the image as necessary to keep the focus on the subject, etc. As you can see, there is a lot that goes into constructing effective images - and many of the iconic images that appear to be spontaneous, were actually staged.
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