A week with my new routine

Wow, it's been a full week with my new routine. I'm not sure If I fully explained what my routine is so I wanted to quickly:

Routine

1. Wake up around 6:30 and take my medicine. I will either go for a walk, meditate, take a bath, etc., for roughly 30-45 minutes while I'm waking up.

2. I do my new anki cards/reviews for 15-20 minutes

3. I read for 20-30 minutes (typically satori reader). This can also be youtube or anime immersion

4. 1 hour of grammar (three cure dolly videos)

5. Will read another 20-30 minutes later in the day (again, could also be anime/youtube)

This routine has served me well. I actually can already see certain differences now that I'm inputting the language a lot more. The grammatical concepts that I'm learning make WAY more sense now that I'm seeing them more in practice. Something I didn't do in my first year of learning. I'm really enjoying the process now and almost can't wait to do more every day.

Because I didn't read much during my first year of learning Japanese (albeit I took a few months off), I never realized how tiring it is for your brain. I will read for 20-30 minutes and my brain is already tired and hurts haha. I know this will get better with time, but it's interesting nonetheless.

My goal to travel to Japan in October 2025 is still alive and studying my ass off this year will help me achieve that. I can't wait to see how my ability has progressed in October of this year!