I don't think awareness is supposed to be a constant struggle, but rather something that you get used to until you are extra aware without even thinking about it.
You could compare this with driving a car - when you first start taking driving lessons you will be super-focused on every single thing, and you will inevitably feel uncomfortable about a lot of things.
But eventually you will gain more and more experience, until it starts to feel very natural and effortless all of a sudden.
I think Lucid Living and All Day Awareness should be approached the same way - it should be something that feels "fluent" and something that becomes second nature.
Indeed, I think the whole point of LL and ADA is to "wake up" and rekindle your fascination of waking life.
One very important realization is that waking life actually is a kind of dream, because a lot of things that we experience only exist in our minds - for example, colours and audible sound do not really exist "out there", those experiences are just the way your brain distinguishes between wavelengths, so that you can read and intepret the world more easily - in fact, a more correct definition of colours and sound is that colours are wavelengths in the visible light spectrum and sound is longitudinal waves moving through a medium.
It's the same thing with heat and cold as well - the only thing that actually happens when something melts or freezes is that atoms gain or lose kinetic energy, so that it becomes easier or harder to separate them - but the feeling of "heat" and "cold" is something that your brain makes up, since it tells you something about the current state of your surroundings, and whether you should seek for hotter or colder places.
For these reasons, I tend to like thinking of waking life as a form of dream - it makes even the dullest ordinary day feel fairly exciting, and it also keeps me motivated to practice lucid dreaming, since that "lucid feeling" is always present to me.
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