Where the phrase comes from
A year and a day is an old legal and folkloric period in British and Irish usage, adopted by twentieth-century Wicca as the customary minimum between meeting a coven and initiation, and between degrees. It is a coven custom, not a rule for solitary practitioners and not a qualification.
It is optional
Nothing in solitary Wicca requires it. There is no exam at the end, nobody is checking, and finishing it makes you no more Wiccan than you were in month two.
A route through this app
Not a tradition and not a course. Month 1: the free Foundations lessons, ethics first, with one daily two-minute practice. Months 2 and 3: Nature & Cycles, the elements, and What is a correspondence. Months 4 and 5: Ritual & Energy, from grounding through casting a circle, and run one ritual of your own. Months 6 and 7: Magic in Practice, beginning with what magic means and the ethics that go with it, then spellcraft and methods. Months 8 and 9: herbs, magical timing and divination, with three full moon cycles of notes. Months 10 to 12: Going Deeper, including deity work, traditional concepts, cultural borrowing and the harder ethical cases. Throughout: mark each Sabbat as it arrives, however briefly, and keep it all in your Book of Shadows.
If you fall behind
The plan is the thing that's wrong, not you. Move it, shorten it, or drop it and keep the daily two minutes.