If you want to progress faster, just play more and Login Everyday to get cat tickets. Each day you get one cat ticket. If your struggling with those hard stages, don’t waste your energy and cat food on that. Get more XP by clearing those easy stages again and again. And there many more ways which you can get more XP, Cat Food and cat tickets. i Recommend that you can earn more cat food rewards from the tapjoy. It’s worth it but it takes a lot of time and effort. But unfortunately you also have to Wait to recover your energy to raise up. As a beginner, i can’t tell you what step by step first. But you should focus on upgrading your normal cats first, then the special cats or rare cats because the Uber Super rare is hard to get and it cause a lot of XP. Don’t try to get too many cats or you end up not having enough XP to upgrade your cats, then in the end you will need more time to find XP to upgrade all your cats. Update and Lookout for all the events and first get whatever that you can get.