Stopping and starting

Have been stopping and starting a lot of things this year without actually completing very much.  Japanese, Chinese, French, German.  All stuff that I've tinkered with many times in the past.  It's a destructive habit as it means I'm surrounded with reminders of unfinished projects, and re-starting is always a dismal reminder of a previous failure.  I get very enthusiastic about things for about three days—I'm a classic three-day monk—then it tails off rather rapidly.  I was really keen on getting my French up to scratch a week or two ago, wasn't I?

Jana Fadness has recently posted on the subject of Just Do Something; ie, don't be paralysed by choices.  Paralysis by choices seems a particular danger for Japanese learners, as there are several different and apparently legitimate ways to go about it.  Work through a romanised introductory book, or use a kana text?  Learn all the kanji first of all using Heisig?  Perhaps go further and even do the readings of the kanji too before doing anything else?  Stick to audio until the conversational language is mastered?  Try to do everything at once?  A lot of choices.