[wpietri]

My biggest suggestion here is to a) write down all the things you want to change about your life, b) pick one, c) spend at least 30 days establishing new habits around that, while d) definitely not working on anything else on that list.

If you try to change everything at once, nothing will stick. But if you get in the habit of working on one thing a month, you can devote your full brainpower to really figuring out how to do that in a way that is sustainable for yourself.

P.S. "1. Write a personal journal / meditate / exercise" is definitely not 1 thing. That's three things. That suggests strongly to me that your desire to cram things in is part of the problem. To make lasting change, you have to be patient, compassionate, and honest with yourself. Here that means accepting that adopting even 1 of those 3 things is hard work that requires practice. Indeed, you may have to split them further. "Exercise" is a huge area. Try starting with something smaller, like "do a couch-to-5k program" or "do 10 minutes of stretching daily".

[arvinsim]

Funny that you posted. I made the decision today to focus on music this month and defer some visual related hobbies next month.

As you said, I was just getting nowhere when my focus was divided. Whenever I want to dive something deep into something new that I learned, I get distracted away by some new thing in the other hobby that I was doing.

[wpietri]

Totally. If you aren't familiar with them, try setting up a Kanban system. I have a big backlog of project ideas, but strong limits on how many I can have going at once. It's been great.