Welcome! This is a great group.
Something I've found as a "rebounder": I actually am ready to put in the time to be better....when I was younger I was far more impatient.
I first took piano lessons as a young adult, a very serious young adult. As such and having learned from taking accordion lessons as a kid that you don't get far without good and reasonably lengthy practice, I had no problem practicing. As a young adult I had goals to meet and gave myself a ten year window to work within. My teacher and I got me a long ways towards those goals in that time. I look at the repertoire now and wonder how the heck I played a few of them.
This time is a bit more relaxed, I'm just trying to get back close to where I was in repertoire or near that capability ( I have no desire to play the exact repertoire again). However, I do get side tracked with some really beautiful sounding simpler repertoire than that of what I played on the first round at piano. Long story short, I'm happy to play music of several types this time ! The level seems less important now as long as the sound is what I want to be putting out.. I'm not interested in excessive finger and hand gymnastics, I concentrate on dynamics more now than I did back then for sure.
I've been back on the piano now 11 months. I'd say the first 6 months of that time was getting familiar all over again. I had some trouble reading the outer reaches of the notes at first. The first three months my hands would tire fairly easy. Those issues are resolved now. That was all expected. What I did not expect was how much more mature my playing sounds now than then ! At Christmas I managed a small performance, was slightly nervous at first and took a short break, came back and it went off really well from that point on. Considering the rough start just 7 months prior, I couldn't have been more pleased about that evenings playing. However, I'm somewhat derailed on repertoire since and I think that is because I have no goal at the moment. I'm one who needs a performance of some sort in the works and then prepare the repertoire for that performance. That is a throw back to my earlier years where we had workshops to prep for and I did my own recitals as well.
Enough of my story, I'm up early this morning just felt like chiming in !!