oh thatâs interesting. Howâre your language skills now? My speaking skills are very bad comparared to others. Iâm trying to brush them up before going to japan.
WaniKani will never have more than 10 items active at a time in a review session. And you can always use the wrap up button to do smaller batches of reviews.
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The difference between before and now is that youâre thinking too much. Youâre thinking too much about your âlackâ of progress, about forcing yourself to do reviews. Thatâs the difference between the You that did reviews and the You that skips them.
Stop thinking. Forget about forcing yourself to do anything at all. When you brush your teeth every day, youâre not thinking about how many brushes you give each side. You just do it.
You donât need to know how many reviews or lessons you have. You donât need to think about your accuracy or leveling up speed.
The number 1 reason people reach lvl 60 is because they show up every day to do the work. Itâs not about speed or intellect.
Forget the other stuff. Those things are stopping you from getting to the goal. Just go for it. Donât be afraid. This is what guarantees you success. Do it and youâll win.
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Very zen! 
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Such good advice. I will come back to this comment whenever I struggle!
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Thanks for your advice helpful durtle.
Donât worry I will reach 60âŠbut sometimes in the future. At least I wanna get to 50 by the end of this year. maybe I should JUST DO IT and when I feel lazy I should come here and whining asking (thatâs part of the current plan haha )
BTW do you have any plan after reaching 60 jpr? thatâs crazy speed of you I remember when we were same levels. You should hold a new wani record 
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You need a little challenge.
In addition to what a lot of other people have already brilliantly suggested, you could actually incorporate these two things into your studies. Of course, they shouldnât be your main source of studying, but after youâve done some formal studying for the day, you can actually read Japanese material, or, play Japanese games. It will help reinforce some of the things youâve learned, teach you some new things, and youâll get to have your fun.
Iâm sure someone has already said this but I canât be bothered to read it all :
When I start feeling this way, it helps to remember why I started in the first place. I also decided to slow way down on WK to focus on other areas of study and itâs helped my motivation.
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I always feel a little bit of annoyance at how long my reviews take, but I generally can get past it by doing five or ten reviews then hitting âwrap upâ, finishing that little set, then doing it again and again until Iâm done. Somehow it seems like less work?
I donât even take a break between the sets, but because itâs like 5 sets of 20, it doesnt feel neverending the way 100 reviews in a row would. You get rewarded with the screen telling you how well you did for each set, so it feels like proper progress!
Iâm a real quitter, so I donât know how long I can keep up Wanikani, but my advice as a fellow lazy person is that you shouldnât be so down on yourself about not finishing a specific task you set for yourself.
The real goal is to learn Japanese right? You donât necessarily have to be using Wanikani or studying consistently to reach that goal. Wanikani is great! But youâre not bad for not doing reviews. And not doing your reviews doesnât mean you wonât reach that goal. If your reviews or studies are not what you want to do right now, maybe watch something or read something fun in Japanese. Youâll still be advancing towards your goal, but in a different way.
I donât want to even think about all the classes I half assed, or all the half finished grammar books collecting dust in my room, or that N2 kanzen master I only read the first 5 pages of. But I passed N2 anyway! Maybe in 2020+, with even more unfinished learning materials, Iâll pass N1 
Basically Iâm saying itâs okay to quit stuff and procrastinate, so long as you keep doing something or other at some kind of frequency. Youâll reach your goal, whatever that is, eventually.
Studying any old way and only doing reviews when youâre in the mood might slow down your progress, but I think itâs also way less likely to burn you out or make you give up entirely. I find that having less negative feelings about the work I didnât do, makes me less likely to procrastinate that same work in the future.
Maybe thatâs actually kind of demotivational (if so, Iâm sorry!) but I myself find it very alienating to just constantly see people saying to push through and keep at it no matter what. Cos thatâs just not possible for me
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Oh gosh, have I been there! I think that coming to the forums to commiserate is a good plan, it reminds you that youâre not alone, weâve all been there, but that doesnât mean that we canât still get through it! I am going to use a lot of the advice on this thread for myself, for sure.
Some advice I can give from my experience is to make sure not to just study, but to have fun with Japanese and remember why youâre doing all this in the first place. @Ncastaneda already mentioned reading novels, but what about joining one of the book clubs here to help you get through it? The beginnerâs book club is going to start reading ARIA the Masterpiece on June 23 and @marcusp is putting together another one for ă«ăăă«ăăæąć”ćŁ. Or you can even just track whatever other books youâre reading on something like èȘæžăĄăŒăżăŒ, hereâs a thread where some of us have shared our profiles so you can follow other Japanese learners if you want.
For playing games, if itâs too much to actually play games in Japanese, you could watch Letâs Plays in Japanese on YouTube. LayerQ has one channel I found linked somewhere else on the forums that I enjoyed.
I find it really helps to find ways to have fun with it, that way youâre not forcing yourself, but you still get practice, and can see how what youâre learning is helping you to get closer to understanding things, and it also gives you motivation to want to keep up with the less fun studying so you can understand even more.
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Thatâs a great point â makes it a lot easier to wrap up a session and walk away when youâre frustrated.
Edit: Seanblue noted that the wrap up button does mostly the same thing, but itâs still nice to be done immediately rather than ten items after youâve decided that youâre done.
Hello fellow procrastinators
In another thread you just mentioned that you have been trying to level up fast and this is usually what happens to me when I do that. I just had 3 very fast levels, then I had a very busy week, my reviews were stacking up, I kept forgetting a lot of the items that were still very new and I could not bring myself to do any lessons for a couple of days.
I want to go fast and finish WaniKani soon and move on to other resources but it seems I just donât have enough free time and mental energy in my life to do it at full speed. So what I do is the same thing as others have already recommended: no new lessons, keep doing reviews. At some point the apprentice and guru count will have gone down and my brain will feel ready for lessons again.
When it is really, really bad then I enable vacation mode between my review sessions. I come back, do 20 or 50 reviews, how ever much I can do and then I re-enable vacation mode. I do that until Iâm back down at 0 reviews. Because I just had a busy day today and could not do reviews at lunch break and now Iâm back at 160 reviews. This is OK when I have a âgood phaseâ but right now it is demotivating.
During the times where I take it slower with WaniKani I try to do other stuff. Switching resources seems to help with motivation. Stuff I like best is of of course everything that is fun: my subs2srs Anki deck, clozemaster and reading (currently graded readers only, hopefully I can move on to other stuff in the future).
You can do it. Having ups and downs in motivation is normal. The only thing that matters is that we keep showing up 
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In general, any way that gets you to keep studying is a good way to study 
Just find something that works for you, and everything will come together (very slowly mind you â a spoonful of patience makes the Japanese go down and all that)
Itâs okay to wish to go full speed. Everyone wants it and they should. They value their time and they value themselves.
However, the problem is that everyone tries to go for the marathon on the first day. Thatâs not how it works. You start preparing for a marathon not by running 40km, but by running. So why other things in life have to be different? Well, they arenât
Start by warming up. Make sure to keep your reviews to 0. Enjoy that process of putting them back to 0. Then, add lessons. Enjoy getting all that new knowledge. Repeat. Keep running, because eventually youâll start running faster, youâll learn more in less time, youâll surpass what you thought it was impossible. And enjoy the run. This is a marathon, no one will get to the end if theyâre not enjoying the process Thatâs how records are made.
Nah, Iâm sure there are faster people 
Iâll be making a post in 4 days and Iâll get back to you about this there
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I did not know this! Thank you for clarification. Also I didnât even know the wrap up button existedâŠ
Speaking of such things, do you know of a script that hides the percentage correct/items remaining (maybe preferably a toggle?) that sits in the upper right corner of the screen? I find it minorly irritating to have those sitting there all the time. Thanks!
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I do not know if there is one or if such thing is even possible, but I recommend you to ask about this to the people that actually create our lovely scripts 
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Someone gave me this advice a few years ago, and I have found it helpful.
You donât have to do the whole thing now, or perfectly.
Just say to yourself, âI choose to start this task with one small, imperfect step.â
I actually wrote that sentence out and stuck it above my desk.
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