There is no end to learning or doing. Two legs for walking about in universes of light.
Take a breath making no thing wrong as such as you hold focus on where you wish to go, being.
If you need think that NLP or anything else has hung you up for 'x' number of years and turn back and rail at for another 'x' number of years... that would be a true waste, especially if time proves it out useful to you down the road.