Language Choices

As I mentioned before I have been tormenting myself with the idea of starting a degree in French this year. Currently I am inclined not to go through with this idea because it is just too big a commitment financially and in terms of time. In the last while I have started reading far more in French and watching French television much more regularly. Ultimately I might be a lot better off trying to push my French to the next level by living part of my life in French than exposing myself to the stress of exams and commitments. I also worry that studying might lead me to give up somewhat on Japanese and Spanish and that would be a shame considering how far I have come since I took up those languages.
I guess my big personal issue is that I have a pathological need for validation. At a certain point though you have to do things for good reasons. I have an MBA to my name that I really have not used and that involved a lot of commitment on my part. With a young family I can't risk short changing others unless there is an overall gain for everybody in the end. Whatever happens I think that I need some new goals for the next year or so. I have a real hunger to set myself some targets and achieve them.
My main focus languages are French, Spanish and Japanese. With French I plan to read more and more novels so that my specific vocabulary can increase without much effort, at this stage reading in French is getting very natural. With Spanish I need to keep reading my Punto y Coma magazines, listen to podcasts and revise the grammar because my level is only intermediate so I still need to embed many grammatical points that I take for granted in French. Japanese remains a big challenge, I am gradually progressing by listening to podcasts but what I really need is to finally learn all the kana and start learning kanji. Reading any language is a key competency and right now I am in nowhere city with Japanese.