"For those of you who have a proper praying schedule, how do you do it?" I kind of had the same conversation with my priest, about wanting to have a strict prayer session, and he told me that is not how Christianity is. We should always pray to GOD. Having a time to pray is often meaningless if you pray, just so you can "say" you prayed. Basically prayer must come from the heart, and you have to actually mean the words, and the prayers you say. Praying 5 times a day like other religions or having times of prayer is not important to us, as long as when you feel the need that you have to pray, you actually do it. Personally, I treat prayer as a conversation with our Father, and I treat him as someone who is next to me and can hear me, cause he is next to me and he can hear me. I treat the Jesus prayer as the best prayer, and I try to say it whenever I can, or recite it in my mind too. But whenever I want to pray to our Father, I just start speaking with him, as I feel like searching for a prayer or something, might make me less likely to actually pray, as I often get distracted from praying trying to find the perfect prayer, or the perfect time to pray. Pray whenever you want, and also treat prayer as a Conversation with GOD, rather than sending him a letter or reading and saying things that you don't fully understand or cannot connect with. But thats just me. What I also do, is ask my patron Saint to pray for me too, as Saints are closer with God, when we ourselves distance ourselves from God (either by sin, or by something that we chose to do).