Help me retain my sanity

By the second week of January, it would be 1 year since I picked up chess. I've always known how to play since elementary school, but just the rules and how the pieces move (even pawn en passant). At 34 years old, I started playing only on chess.com and had a Rapid rating of 400. Almost 1yr, 2 books (Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess and The Soviet Chess Primer) later, and I've now peaked at 1200 10/0 Rapid and 800 3/2 Blitz. I feel like I've hit a plateau because I've been stuck at ~1100-1200 Rapid for a few months now. I've created a new account to get fresh ELO swings, but I'm still stuck. Am I just being hard on myself? Is an 800 ELO gain in a year from 400 reasonable? Is a plateau at 1200 ELO typical? I'm very structured with my regiment. Roughly, it's as follows: Read for 1hr. Devote 30-40 minutes for exercises Review:  Analyze last 10 games and find latest reason for loss (the actual blunder that cascaded to a loss)  Opening Theory: Tactics/Calculations: Strategical Play: Endgame:   Work on biggest weakness Opening Theory: 10% + 0/60% = 10% Tactics/Calculation: 10% + 7/60% = 52% Strategical play: 10% + 2/60% = 22% Endgame: 10% + 1/60% = 16% ~5 mins of puzzles to warm up before playing, and I just play a bunch of puzzles all the time for fun. Is there anything else I can or should be doing? My goal for the end of 2025 is to average 1600 Rapid. Is that reasonable?

I also must say that I yesterday I had an abysmal day, and today was one of my best days ever.

idk but i climbed up to 1500 in 2023 and havent been over 1400 since then right now im under 1100 because i just dont care about my rating sometimes you get lucky and climb alot for unknown reasons

the rating pool is very diverse i dont know what causes people to be stuck and then climb 100 points theres probably like 100 variables literally

the higher rating pools have many more variables so its alot hard to climb some people are specialists in openings i think which makes it hard to prepare for every opening style so it gets exponentially harder to improve your rating the higher you go compared to -1200 where as long as you master the basics and play reasonably youll win half your games, so yeah i think 1200 is definitely an area to stall in starting out, i did. I didnt just go from 1200 to 1300 in a day or anything

What you need is “How to reasses your chess” by Jeremy Sillaman, this will teach you true chess, you need to learn about imbalances

just play alot i have 13000 games played lol

Yes! I'm almost done with The Soviet Chess Primer, and that one is next on my list!

Your goal is achievable, but keep the process fun and sustainable. The plateau is normal and often breaks with time and consistent effort.

Wait! Don't get how to reassess your chess yet. Get amateurs mind by silman first. It's more of a preview of HTRYC