First and foremost to getting skills and improving abilities is a desire to creatively gain experience with the instrument! The stronger this desire the more involved the connection becomes. Though the Guitar has many facets, the sound and touch response is tactile. Keep your guitar close, play it, tune it, appreciate it. Fortify this relationship always. Keep alert to your goals and pursue them.
Using visualized shapes, of chords and melody lines, apply your imagination to permutations that tap into variety. Inversions are patterns of sound. Have you explored your options? Try moving certain pitches higher or lower and listen. Stoke your imagination and feed your inspiration! Play your guitar!