Hello to you @FantomGirl, my answer will be a bit long but I’ll try to answer in a way that is useful to you and others, that means I am going to answer preemtively in a way, you’ll see what I mean as I go along.
To begin, if you are thinking about pathworking - I take it you’ve developed your astral senses: clairvoyance, clairaudiance, etc or perhaps one of them to a basic or higher degree.
In case you haven’t (here’s the preemptive part), here are a good resources to help you with many things, pathworkings contain many ideas sometimes appear again and again in different in various systems:
If you have done so, then my tip is what do you feel most drawn to, what type of skills do you wish to develop (powers), in what ways will this pathworking help you out (how is it beneficial to you)? What type of magick are you into (sounds the same as powers but its not) - what principles do you already know, which pathworkings will expand your repetoire in a way that is interesting to you right now?
These are things to think about as choose a pathworking to delve into.
In terms of why pathworking is beneficial instead of taking things here and there and apply it as you go. According to me a pathworking is a highway that’s meant to accelerate your ascent, by applying yourself to a system and its entities, etc, you’ll expand your skillset more quickly in many ways which just doesn’t happen when you apply things here and there.