Writing a letter on your hand is a pretty effective method. I used to do it when I first started. Since RCing can be difficult to keep up with in waking life (for me anyway...I have terrible non-dream related memory ), I perform RCs sparingly in waking life. I RC whenever I see something unusually beatuiful like a very scenic sunset, an unusually attractive female (drop dead gorgeous only), a shooting star, and some other very scenic views/situations. I also RC when I see something crazy/strange like when I saw a guy walking down main street in a clown suite in December or the time I saw a drunk student riding on the bumper of the college transportation vehicle (the bus, lol). Basically anytime I find myself thinking, "Wow that was weird!", "WTF was he thinking?", "You don't see that every day." , "I'll never be able to do that again." , "Whoa! Look at that!" or "Wow, I got lucky on that one." I follow it up with an RC. Many times this has helped me become lucid. I never had much luck with routine RCs or setting up specific RCs. Well anyhow, good luck to you!