Mahasi Sayadaw / Yuttadhammo noting question
I just feel like I'm forcing it every time I make it to a touching
point. I try to be as mindful as possible but it's hard to feel like
I'm doing it correctly when I can't even make it to a touching point.
feels like it's creating needless doubts. and maybe I'm just
practicing incorrectly.

You're experiencing disenchantment and dispassion which comes about through the recognition of transience, suffering and not-self. What you claim as a setback is the actual knowledge to be understood.
In your quote above there is classic transience, suffering and not-self mostly through seeking continuity of practice and becoming frustrated that its continuity has been lost. That's the knowledge right there.
It is not a mechanistic understanding governed by conventional learning, it is a wisdom-understanding governed by how the mind has been previously exposed to practice.