How Can I Have An Effective Prayer Life?

In this episode Dr. Betters answers the question, "I feel overwhelmed in my prayer life. There are so many things in my life and those lives around me and things happening in the world that need daily prayer. How can I have an effective prayer life when there is just so much that needs prayer? How do I pick and choose? When I try to fit everything in, I feel I am just rushing through it and it won't be effective."