Good - one final word of advice, it's really easy to trap yourself by setting too big of goals, which you seem to be aware of..
The advice has more to do with you saying you're preparing for a reset - I admire and appreciate your effort, but please, just remember: If the reset doesn't happen as you expect/imagine (or gets interrupted or something), that does not mean you have failed. You may need to realign how you do things multiple times before finding success.
Focus on the effort, not the outcome. It'll come before you know it, but the whole watched pot never boils thing ... You know.
Much love - and if ya can, one day, when you're stronger than you are now, help someone who needs it. I'm only here because others lent me strength when I didn't have it. Take care, fellow human
Haha I had to chime in.
Best beginner tips - explore a level fully before you drink any potions. Certain "potion" rooms will always have the potion that solves the puzzle in them on the same floor -
- fish room will have an invisible potion,
- evil crystal sentry will have a haste potion,
- gas filled room will have a purity potion,
- Wooden door can be burned with fire pot,
- Magic fire can be put out with ice potion,
- Completely trap filled room has a levitation pot on the same level
Upgraded items (wands/armor/weapons# x , potions of strength, and scrolls of upgrade cannot be destroyed by bombs, or explosive traps/stones. This is a good way to identify items with bonuses (armor/weapons)
Well of health will cleanse all worm cursed items, heal you to fill, and remove all negative status (including hunger/starvation)
Oh also. Sneak attacking/surprise attacks - yellow exclamation above their heads. Moving through a door, with an anemy right behind, will close the door behind you, and cause them to have to open it - meaning you get a free chance to attack and auto-hit.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon. I have another phone, this one is recent, with at least 2k games on it
Evan consistently updates Shattered Pixel Dungeon, and I fucking love his game. It's it's own version of the open source Pixel 
-f415-471f-9968-8e2f71c3ea3c.png)
Sounds to me like you have learned some things. You're just looking for encouragement, now, which is totally understandable and very very commendable.
Don't ever let yourself question your progress as a static benchmark. You question your habits and wish to return to a more productive/happier state.. do you see something wrong with that? It's very human, and we all fall off the horse and have to recover, sometimes
Dust yourself off - take a breathe - keep going, when you can.
Follow your own drum beat and keep focus on those things you wrote about - improving yourself seemed to make you happy. Good luck - You don't need it. ✌️