It sounds like you do know what you're doing! And you know that you're not giving it your all. Maybe because your results were less than you'd hoped, you're reluctant to dedicate more time and energy than you are now.

Lucid dreaming is a serious endeavor, very rewarding to be sure once you start to see some progress, but like all serious endeavors you need to put in the time and energy for your abilities and results to grow. It all begins with living a life where you promote high quality, regular sleep, and where you develop very good dream recall. It's not just recall, though, it's creating a very close connection to your dreams, paying attention to them, and developing a very high degree of vividness in your dreams.

If you decide you really want to pursue lucid dreaming, to get feedback on your day and night routines, let us know and we can go in to a lot more detail on the next steps. I'm sure that you could get your dreaming to a much more satisfying level from where it is now, if you decide you really want to.

Let us know, and we could begin a full diagnosis of your past and present practice, and offer suggestions. But the motivation and effort has to come from you! It's your decision...