The voice in me

Is it just me or we all experience this. I want to pray, I want to study the bible but i have a thousand things going on inside my head. I ride from starting my prayer, ‘ Dear Heavenly father,’ to , did I correct the mistakes I made on the report before submitting? What am i going to say to my client tomorrow about the matter at hand. Do I have enough money for my weekly supplies? The list goes on. Am literally all over the place and get lost while trying to focus,

Is there an art to being still and quiet inside. Clearly I haven’t mastered that one yet. I can shift from being in tears before God to thinking about what my colleague said in the morning that offended me. I resorted to writing my prayers because talking alone, my mind flows in all different directions.

The say do what works for you, apparently writing is what works for me, so just have to be writing as I pray, its the only way I can tame my mind right now. How do you guys handle a crowded mind, or maybe you don’t even have such?