I always put a memo pad in my pants pocket, and outside I open it to write various pieces of my ideas in English. As an autistic guy who must have a very, very talkative chattering brain, my mind must contain confused contents... so I have to let/vent them out on it. You would say "Hey, why do you use English? You are Japanese, aren't you?". Yes, that's even enigmatic for me... But during that annoying pandemic period, I tried to write in English, then it fit me firmly. C'est la vie.
Besides that trial of writing notes in English, I enjoy chatting in English on the internet. As for me, however, I have never thought that these trials are "for studying/learning English", instead, these are for me for a kind of "playing" by using English like enjoying games. In other words, writing journals in English every morning and writing notes as I have written above aren't any serious efforts for me. They seem very, very naturally fit me therefore I can keep on doing as my habits or daily routines.
Some people say to me that I must be so "gifted" person that I can do these things. But TBH I have never thought I had such a brilliant talent in me that enabled me to do these things. All I have trusted is not the ability that decides what I can do, but the interest/curiosity that lets me enjoy exploring the unknown pleasures in this world. Of course, I am never a perfect person who has already mastered English, but who has to face limited ability therefore I always show various shameful things to you.
Recently, the staff of my group home made my room pretty neat (they put plenty of books on the bookshelves! I have to say thank you to them). Now, looking at my room, I can find various books about learning English. TBH, I had even bought a thick collection of Louise Gluck's poems to explore English poems. But as you can tell easily, learning English can't be achieved so easily that we must try to explore what kinds of methods will suit us steadily. As for me, the English memo pad in my pocket and writing my journals must have suited me certainly, so I could have kept doing them until now.
