Like anything in life, it takes practice to learn how to meditate, but many of us in our hustle and bustle for get to set away time for ourselves to learn.
We agonize over the seemingly millions of meetings we must attend that only drag on for hours and hours without accomplishing anything.
The children have school, sports, and other activities.
Then we come home we have to take care of them.
It's enough to completely forget about anything we may want to do from the chaos and fatigue.
We must discipline ourselves however.
As we strive to train our minds, we must train ourselves to make the time for meditation.
One of the simplest ways to do this is to set up a routine schedule of when it's good to meditate, but if you're like me, it's almost impossible to keep a schedule at times.
Instead others have found it useful to incorporate it as apart of a routine.
It's based on the context of what you do rather than a specific time.
The easiest way is to add it as apart of a nightly or morning routine.
For example, after waking up but before breakfast meditate for fifteen minutes.
Similarly at night, before going to sleep (not in bed!) but after brushing your teeth.
This method prevents a certain dread from building up as the clock approaches certain times.
The final method many people have had success with is to make a list of three things you want to accomplish each day.
Add meditate for fifteen minutes to it and two other daily goals.
It doesn't matter when these three goals are accomplished, but make sure they are.
This last method is perfect for meditating when we're in the mood for it.
We can't flake on our meditation.
If we want to learn how to meditate, we must commit to practicing it every day.
There are ways to help us stay on course with our practice from strict schedules, to developing routines, to even making it one of our daily goals.
It's best to find a way that lets us stick to our meditation goals without destroying our motivation.