Hmmm... By the sound of it, there's some reframing to be done, but we'll get back to that.
So, sleep health. Looks okay from here, save for word choices. I'll save that for the end, as it ties to a later point.
As for your dream journal, I must implore you take more time and effort to engage it. Fill it with whatever details you can scrounge from memory. Even in days when you don't recall anything, just write down anything, like what occurred in the night. You really want to make a habit of doing this.
Now, for the crux of the matter. IMO, it's not good long-term to practice LDing solely for LDing's sake. There's a lot of skills, techniques, and training involved, all of which can and will help in ways more broadly than the subject itself. Take your dream journal, for instance. Writing in it doesn't just benefit your dream recall. It also lets you improve on your writing skills. When you record your dreams in your electronic dream journal, it'll give you a reason to learn more about your word processor or other medium in which you write it. You'll have reason to learn how to better organize your data. And that's just from one foundation. The list goes on with reality testing, prospective memory training, sleep scheduling, dream recall and so forth.
There's something to be said of labeling things "successes" and "failures". Cautious optimism or no, I don't think such a perspective will really help. Take, for instance, those nights where you claim to have "failed" WBTBs. This is an opportunity to ask why such occurred. Is there some physical ailment you weren't aware of? A developing cold, or perhaps vitamin deficiency? Was there outside interruptions? Construction going on, or such? At times, it may very well be a plan that fell short. Other times, it's outside factors that just can't be resolved without time. And yet, at other cases, it's an indication that one needs to put their attention elsewhere. Anyway, just beware using such severe, dichotomous language.
Furthermore, a lot of these practices take time to see results. A lot of time. Looking at it day by day is really not the way to go. What you may think of as one night of "failure", may very well be setting up the groundwork for results in a later date. It could be for tomorrow, it could be for next week, or even next month. There's really no way to tell for sure.
If there's one takeaway here, it's that you must find ways to enjoy and make use of the entirety of your practice. The journey, not the destination and all that. Sure, it's fine to indulge when you get to the occasional LDs. Just be sure to appreciate as much of the rest of the voyage as you can. The non-LDs, hypnagogic experiences, all the techniques and skills you learn. It's a long trek. Make the most of it.
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