well i haven't been at it as long as you guys, but i will still comment :)

As far as avoiding things i suck at i kinda come from a different background.

When younger i used to do a lot of full contact fighting(Before UFC etc :) ) and slight of hand magic.

Both required you to be on top of your game by working out the weakness in your technique or skill till those same weakness suddenly became assests.

For me a big part of the enjoyment is the challenge some of this stuff poses, and there are many *Yucks*

Right now my major struggle is chord switching. specifically doing the F open. that things make my hand feel like its in one of those old medieval racks being stretched across the fretboard, heh. Sometimes its nice to have tiny hands when squeezing all those fingers into a little area on the fret, sometimes it sucks when you have to stretch across multiple frets, give and take i guess , heh

I worked on those chord switching lessons in GF1 and it certainly has improved.

Also i was taught a different way of fretting the A open chord which has made it a lot easier for me to switch that between, D, E and A open. Ofcourse there is probably some major drawback i do not know of yet ;)

About being distracted. I started just having GT open in my browser as to not get distracted by people trying to IM or message me or seeing new email etc. That has helped cut down on my google syndrome. Sometimes i see a term or something i don't understand here or in the lessons and i will google it. Well an hour later i will be back to the lesson having forgot while i stopped
:o

Now i just force myself to ignore it till later after i am done with the lesson i am working on.

Regards

Nox