You decide to stop a course or alter a project, then worry that you are being inconsistent. The earlier plan may have made sense with the information you had. A different experience can reasonably produce a different decision.
Write what changed. Perhaps the work requires more time than expected or the first attempt revealed that you enjoy a different part of the subject. Separate that observation from a broad judgement about your willingness to commit.
Keep the useful part of the earlier work
Identify anything you can still use, such as a completed exercise or a method that helped. Close the parts you are leaving and tell anyone affected by the change. If there are practical obligations, handle those before treating the decision as finished.
Give the new direction a limited next step. You do not need to replace one ambitious plan immediately with another. After trying the step, review whether the new reason still holds. Keeping a dated account makes it easier to see what you learned rather than remembering the change only as a plan you abandoned.
