If there's one thing to take away from this regardless of how often you fly, be it NVFR or IFR, calling out the altitude to yourself and your passenger if you have one is an excellent way of avoiding this; simple and effective.
Saying to yourself, airport 300ft, I'm 800ft, I'm turning onto final at 500ft, I need to be at 300ft by one mile, call out 200ft, 100ft, etc, etc, you know what I mean. If you are too low you are going to realise pretty soon if you are deliberately calling out the altitude. Relying solely on visual aids simply doesn't always work, short of an approved approach lighting system. My 2 cents worth.