Welcome to Dream Views!
The only way you are a hopeless case, is if you give up hope. 8)

You know, the mind is funny. A lot of times, to acheive what you believe is impossible, you have to turn it around and look at it from the opposite perspective. Don't see that there is a long road in front of you, and you may take forever getting into lucid dreaming, focus more on your genuine Interest in LD'ing. Realize that it is only going to take as long as your mind lets it for you to have another one. A lot of people have their first lucid dreams within days of reading about them. I was so captivated by one of the books I was reading once, that I had 5 lucids in 3 nights, which is my highest record so far. DOUBT is going to do nothing but hold you back. This sounds almost cliche when talking about the waking world, but in the dream world lack of confidence and lack of awareness that Anything you will is possible is your biggest enemy.

As far as your habits, I am not exactly the most disciplined person in the world either. The best advice I can give to you is to keep a dream journal. Make it a habit to log Something in it whenever you can. Don't dismiss anything because you can only remember a sentence worth of a dream. Write it down. You will start to appreciate paying attention to the details of your dream, and this will help you figure out which details help you realize you are dreaming and become lucid.

Oh...and don't worry about long posts....some of us Never shut up. :sweat1:

Welcome, again!