Re: how to pray regularly?
That’s a very good idea, people clean themselves and do istinja anyway when they do their business. Might as well do your wadu completely so you don’t have an excuse for it.
-Also if it’s really a struggle start of with incorporating 1 or 2 prayers and then adding them slowly. Esha is the easiest sometimes because you’re pretty much done with the day and can’t make any excuses for it taking time away from anything else you have to do. You’ll find that it’ll become difficult to go to sleep once you start doing it few nights in a row, like a chore has been left incompleted.
-Set some sort of reminder for each one of your prayers. An alarm that might go off or have someone in your family who prays regularly ask you casually if you performed your prayers. You might slack off the first time, find an excuse for the second one but by the third you might just feel guilty and get up and pray. So basically, try to keep track of the ones you are missing. It’ll make you think.
-Think of your kids, younger sibs etc… sooner or later you’ll reach a position when your younger siblings or kids need to be taught about their obligations as Muslims and you’ll have to teach them a lot of things. Think of how difficult it would be and how conflicated you might feel when you teach them about the obligations they have in islam and don’t even follow them yourself.
Also you can’t really do anything without the help of Allah swt. Whenever you make dua, ask Him to help you in fulfilling your duties towards Him.