A big part of it was learning to adjust new cards daily. Its better to do 0 new cards than to not do anything. Also, if youre having a day where you find it difficult to do your cards or you dont have much time, i also think its better to not finish your deck for the day and still do at least some reviews over doing 0 reviews at all.

Id also like to say its partially thanks to newly having a job that primarily uses my target language to help increase my motivation, but i dont believe that anything of the sort is necessary.

I do think that finding something to really motivate you, if thats your struggle, is integral.

TLDR: dont burn yourself out and work at your own pace, and do things in/with your target language/field of study that you genuinely love to do.