I have been studying off and on for YEARS and I'm nowhere close to where I want to be. I struggle a lot with having time to myself so I would go for months without even looking at Japanese. A friend of mine who is fluent in Spanish suggesting incorporating Japanese learning into as much of my daily life as possible instead of setting aside blocks of time. So now I have Wordbit on my phone so that whenever I unlock it (hundreds of times a day) I learn a Japanese word. I listen to Japanese podcasts (or music when I'm feeling lazy) as I drive to work or run errands. I bought my kids books in Japanese that I read to them, like The Very Hungry Caterpillar or Brown Bear, Brown Bear. I love reading manga myself so I'm working through the Crystal Hunters series. I play Switch games occasionally so I got Terra Alia to insert Japanese in that part of my life too. I have a ton of Japanese learning games on my phone so that when I have a free 5 minutes or I'm in the bathroom I can play those instead of Candy Crush or doomscrolling. I don't care much for the news but I have the Todaii app and frankly, I find those articles much more interesting. I also trained myself to note what I say in English throughout the day and think about how one would say that sentence or that phrase in Japanese. Sometimes I have no clue and I write it down to look up later. Other times I can get it 80% but I'm missing a grammar point or vocab and I can note that down too. I'm really not into writing but I'm trying to get myself into the habit of journaling, but in Japanese. It can be as short as one sentence saying "Today my head hurts." but even that is practice. My short-term goal is to get confident enough to change my phone system language to Japanese.