The following are tips that I’ve come up with to help you enjoy the anime medium in a more honest, enjoyable, and healthy way.

Tips for rating shows:

• Don’t artificially make your average score on MAL a 5 for the sake of balance. If your average score is around a 5 then that means you’re picking the wrong shows to watch.
• That being said, don’t give a ton of shows a 10/10. It’s hard to tell what you really like when you’ve given 30+ shows a 10/10. Find a balance between being critical of a show, but not being a hard ass about it.
• If you were entertained by a show, then that means it isn’t trash. I get annoyed when people are laughing their ass off while watching a show like mars of destruction or garzey’s wing, rate it a 1/10, and then say shit like “Omg that was the funniest anime I’ve ever seen. I don’t regret watching it at all”. And I’m over here like THEN DON’T RATE IT A 1/10! THAT’S NOT WHAT A 1/10 IS!
• Understand that it’s impossible to rate a show “objectively”. You are not objective. You cannot rate a show objectively. You’re just trying to act like you’re above subjectivity, which you’re not. Literally no human can rate a show objectively. So stop being a wannabe anime critic, and be honest with your ratings.
• Don’t think that a 10/10 means it’s “perfect”. No show is perfect. To be perfect, a show must be the best a show can be in every possible aspect, which no show is.

Tips for deciding what show to watch:

• When choosing a new show, choose the one that excites you the most at that moment. Try to avoid watching shows for an arbitrary reason, I’ll give some examples that I see people do that aren’t the most conducive to enjoying a show at its max: 
  • Watching a show just because it’s on your on-hold list, dropped list, or plan to watch list.
  • Watching a show just because it’s the new hot seasonal anime that no one will talk about in three months time (The helpful fox Senko-san, Redo of Healer, Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out, and Don't Toy with Me Miss Nagatoro are great examples of this)
  • Watching a show just because you said you’d watch it once you’re done with the show you’re currently on.
  • Watching a show just because it’s from a particular studio, director, mangaka, genre, etc.
• Having a completionist mindset about anime. Examples being watching all the shows from a particular studio, director, mangaka, genre, etc. The most common instance of this is when people binge Studio Ghibli movies, without spacing them out properly. You can say you want to watch all the Studio Ghibli movies, but don’t watch a Studio Ghibli movie unless you truly want to watch that specific movie more than any other anime movie/series.
• Try not to watch more than one show at a time. This happens a lot with people who watch an anime week by week. They’ll watch 7 anime at once, because they’re watching them all week by week.
• You can avoid watching anime week by week, by waiting until the show has finished airing. Then you have the flexibility of watching the show at whatever pace you enjoy most.
• Try not to watch anime seasonally. Watch the first 5 minutes and 35 seconds of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM1m_RUw1ZU and all of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UK_PdRWRYQ 

Misc Tips:

• Don’t ever say you’ve “run out of anime to watch lol”. No you haven’t. If you have truly run out of anime to watch, then I expect you to have seen more anime than this person https://myanimelist.net/profile/spacecowboy
• This tip is something I do and it works for me. I try to complete the show I’m watching before starting a different show. I’ve noticed that I enjoy the show I’m watching more if that’s the only show I’m watching from start to finish. If I get to the point where I really want to watch a different show, then I just put the show I’m watching on-hold.

Now for the actually important tips.

• If you’re getting burned out of anime, then take a break for as long as you need to. I take month-long breaks quite often. Anime is entertainment. It shouldn’t be a chore or a hassle.
• Don’t let anime distract you from the important things you need to do. If you’re using anime to procrastinate on things like writing a paper, checking your email, going to bed, etc, then anime is currently doing more harm to you than good. You know if you’re watching anime to take a break, or if you’re watching anime to procrastinate.