Be Lucky!

Are you good at praying? Is your prayer life a great one? What tricks and shortcuts do you use?
If you said you are good, then you probably have a lot to learn, and a lot to practice.
If you said its a great one, then you probably have learned a lot and practiced a lot. And you've struggled; prayed when you didn't feel like it. Prayed when you wondered if you were just talking to yourself. Prayed when you wanted to think about something else.

Where's Shawn?

Tricks and shortcuts? Well, I'm not aware of any. Its a relationship; talking and listening. Spending quality and quantity time. And yes, some things like Spiritual Disciplines can help. Spiritual Disciplines allow us to do something which puts us in the mindset, posture, and occasion to notice when God speaks.
I had a soccer coach in college who told us to "be lucky". What he meant was, do the work, practice, and set yourself up to be in a position to be lucky when the ball gets deflected.
The more prepared we are to encounter God, the more likely we will be to notice.