Mentors
Aero clubs are still the place to obtain the advice/mentoring that has been suggested. But I think the advice should come from a instructor or better yet the CFI (if you can get a hold of them). See the problem for a low time PPL is figuring out what is the good advice and what is utter BS! Yes there are a lot of good PPLs in aero clubs but there are also a lot of down right dangerous ones who are only alive due to blind luck. As may instructors know there are also pilots that just can't be told "I'll be right!". Experience is learning from our mistakes, the ones that don't kill us that is!