It depends on what sort of meditation you're after.
If you're going for a total-being-present-awareness, then letting all thoughts be gone is your objective, or at least being aware and recognising your thoughts, but ultimately to nevermind about them. This I think is the typical no-thoughts quiet meditation.
If you're going for guides/higher self, then as Erin said in one of her blogposts (please look it up), going for entire quiet meditative state is not ideal. What you're to do is, I think, let thoughts come and go and when you recognise it's (slightly) different from yours, engage in conversation (hence not quiet).
For either, guided meditation is probably the best tool when starting. I assume you're starting 'cause you're falling asleep. Another thing is to do it after you wake up or after a nap. I find myself falling asleep when meditating when I'm tired. Falling asleep while meditating is very common. What Andrea Hess (psychic) said most helpful: it's your undisciplined brain trying to get out of it. Also, aim for 5 min a day (Andrea Hess' youtube on meditation). Just that.
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