What I found to be a lot of help was turning on the radio and just kind of strumming along at half tempo or the like. Makes practising the chords less of a chore and it also develops a good sense of rhythm.
Another thing is to try arpeggios by just picking your way up and down the strings. It gives some of your fingers more time to find their respective strings and it also forces your fingers to begin either finger picking or picking with a plectrum or plastic pick.
Another habit that is a bad one, is tablature. Try your very best to avoid learning everything from tabs; its very easy to go from standard notation to tabs, but tabs to standard notation is a bitch. Tabs are a drug, its very easy to learn songs from them, but its a rut and trying to play something with a clarinet or any other instrument can be a treacherous task of counting frets to find your next note. Its been 3 months since I started trying to go to standard notation from tabs, and I'm still not done.
Have fun though. The guitar is the modern violin; you can play nearly anything with it.
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