Most people arriving at a new method have a history. A subscription running somewhere. A course bought in January. Books. Possibly a tutor you've stopped booking and haven't got round to cancelling.
There's a reluctance to add anything on top of that, and it's a sensible one. Worth working through properly rather than ignoring.
The Spent Money Isn't a Factor
This is the uncomfortable part, so let's be direct about it.
Money already spent is gone regardless of what you do next. Continuing with something that isn't working doesn't recover it — it just adds your time to the cost. The only useful question about any product is whether it's worth what it costs from today onward.
Everybody knows this and almost nobody applies it, because abandoning something feels like admitting the purchase was a mistake. Usually it wasn't. Most of those purchases were reasonable and did part of a job.
Most of It Doesn't Need Abandoning Anyway
The good news is that this is rarely either-or.
Input material — apps, books, podcasts, series — trains a different system and uses different time. It sits alongside production work rather than competing with it. If you're enjoying any of it, keep it.
What's worth reviewing is anything you're paying for and not using. That isn't a decision about method, it's just an unused subscription, and it would be worth cancelling whatever you did next.
The Tutor Question
If you have one and it's going well, keep them. If you have one and you dread the sessions, the useful move is to pause rather than cancel.
Tutoring becomes considerably better value once you have phrases that come out automatically — you spend the hour using the language instead of assembling it, and the corrections land on something solid. Returning to it in three months is a better outcome than grinding through it now.
What the Sensible Order Looks Like
Keep what you enjoy and use. Cancel what you're paying for and avoiding. Add production practice into hours that weren't being used for anything.
That isn't a dramatic restructuring, and it doesn't require deciding your previous choices were wrong.
About Outputly
Outputly runs in time your other material can't use, so it doesn't require dropping anything. Whatever built your understanding is exactly what it converts.