But you find it difficult to keep up a regular meditation practice after you go home. Here are some hints that have been given to me over the years that I have found helpful. Do not get discouraged if your mediation sessions aren't exactly models of peace and equanimity. Keep in mind why you are meditating. The goal of this type of meditation is to work with your mind as it is, not to enter into a blissful state that is free from agitation, worry, or thoughts in general.
Thoughts are a normal part of the meditation process.
As thoughts arise when we meditate, we notice them and let them go. Avoid the extremes of not allowing the thoughts to occur on the one hand, and getting carried away by thoughts on the other. Recognize the value of short meditation sessions. An hour can be good, but some days you don't have the hour, and you don't practice. This happens day after day, then a month has passed without meditating.