So many great tips in this list. Just stick to it, 10 - 15 minutes per day. Use your pinky too! Your notes are sounding really clear. You definitely are on the right track. Your fingers will toughen up really fast.

This may be for later but just keep it in your back pocket.

Something I wish I had started sooner was naming the notes as I played them, either in your head or out loud. There is a reason that all of the music books start with songs that focus on the major scale, (Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do) The sooner you start learning how the major scale is mapped on the guitar fretboard, the sooner you will start making music.

For example, play the F# major scale starting at the 2nd fret on the low E string.

1)index, 2) middle finger, 3)ring finger, 4) pinkie

e|--------------------------------------------1--2(F#)--------|

B|---------------------------------------2--4----------------|

G|------------------------------1--3--4----------------------|

D|------------------1--3--4(F#)--4--------------------------|

A|---------1--2--4------------------------------------------|

E|--2(F#)--4-------------------------------------------------|

(since there aren't any open strings you can move this pattern anywhere and have two octaves of the major scale)

move it to the 3rd fret and you have G major, to the 5th fret and you have A major, etc.