Prayer is the way we connect to God.  Prayer is the way we communicate with God and God communicates with us.  Prayer is the way we live out our relationship with God.  The foundation of prayer is to, first and foremost, want to be in relationship with God. So, to start with, ask God to come into your life, to be a part of your life, to always be at the center of your life.  Like with any other relationship, we must want to be connected to God in every way possible to start building on and improving our relationship. Our prayer life flows out of that relationship.  It sounds simple, but like every relationship it requires a commitment of time and energy on our part to keep that relationship going.