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Hi @philly14 : your commitment to the daily challenge will serve you well. I have found that to be the single best use of my time as a player. No doubt about it,…when I first started the challenges were soooo challenging they were near impossible. I began to slow them way down and focus on pieces of them and by doing this I found great success and that fueled my desire to continue. You mentioned some were in your wheelhouse and some were over your head. When they are over your head you have the opportunity to grow your skills. I encourage you to wholeheartedly embrace those challenges and take advantage of working out the puzzle.
I have not found any one thing to be more important than the other. Everything I explore layers on new skills and creates new patterns in my mind for playing. Find something that appeals/resonates with you and explore it. Move on to something else what ever grabs your attention whether it is strumming, fingerpicking, flatpicking….you can’t go wrong. Revisit things you have done. Even a few months of daily challenges will change your skill level and brain wiring enough so that old lessons will seem new.
What do you want to play? That is a good place to start. If you can target that, you can find things that will support that more specifically but truly it all works together even though it may be hard to see how at first. There is no wrong way. The only wrong way is to stop playing. It is one of the beautiful things about the daily Challenges: never have to think about it…I just do it and as long as I keep doing it I continue to improve.