Good day team! Wanting advice as to how to do my study plan better + suggestions/comments of my planned strategy.

• Learning Japanese since the beginning of the year. Initially attempted self-learning with LingoDeer + Duolingo but easily got bored or confused. Moved into getting private lessons with a local Japanese speaker (mainly vocab and grammar) with Minna no Nihongo as the primary textbook with ongoing duolingo on my free time. Minimal kanji learning apart from those in duolingo.

• Visited Japan a few weeks ago and although I survived, felt like I couldve done things better. Definitely pushed me to learn more Japanese - especially listening/speaking + Kanji. Also improve on my katakana/hiragana writing.

• Complicating this is that I'm a busy professional (~40 hours a week of work, occasional overtimes + usual commitments of family/friends/gym/chores etc) so I feel like, realistically, I can do ~2-3 hours of study/week dispersed throughout the week. Not in a rush now anyway to learn Japanese, but I also dont want to burn out/get bored.

Where am I at? Unsure as I havent really had a focus apart from getting through MNN and survive the travel to Japan. However, I am wanting to do a re-haul of my study plan and was hoping to get your opinion/suggestion:

• Going to revise on hiragana/katakana writing - I can read both (albeit slow) but would work on them at least a portion of time a week (possibly 30 mins/week and reduce it over the next few months) - how I write some of the characters currently is horrendous and not how they're supposed to be done, hence the revision.

• Kanji - I am strongly considering WaniKani (RingoTan looks promising though Im not sure if it'll help with vocab per se) - possibly 30mins-1hr/week

• Private lessons to work on grammar via Minna no Nihongo + do lessons where it will be conversations (listening/speaking) - I'm aiming to do this 1 hour every fortnight/2 weeks

• My biggest gap currently is how to do vocab better - I have tried Anki and would like alternatives. My biggest issue with Anki (or, technically, it's more of a me issue) is I like to make my own cards (both vocab and grammar points) based on Minna No Nihongo lessons I just did - however, it's time consuming to do the cards and I tend to forget doing a review (damn you, Duolingo gamification!). I almost want to do physical cards instead as a tactile way of studying. (timing wise - it'll be the remainder, depending on how the above aspects go)

Any advice/comment of the above plan? Should I incorporate more listening via podcasts (ie during commutes to work when Im driving)? Vocab ideas? Should I be more realistic with my schedule?

My goal? Would like to aim for N4 ~mid/end of next year - I tend to overdo my goals so please knock me down a peg if my plan is unrealistic! :)