CAudreyJ said ..............@Fiddlerman Thank you for the encouragement I am going to keep trying. Typically if I find myself distracted on a particular day that is the day  I take a break and do not practice as I find that I get frustrated. Practice is key and that I have noticed can really improve my playing that and playing scales which I have started to focus on a lot more......

Yes. Practicing scales, no matter how boring it may be, improves finger placement accuracy and fluency as well as the technique that you use while playing the scales. For example, the rhythms, bowings (slurs), dynamics.... etc.