I used to have a daily meditation habit, I say used to because we had guests over Christmas and they stayed for nearly two months, great way to break a habit. Still, I will be doing it again
I think the best book I ever got was one by Paul Wilson called Quiet, search the calmcentre dot com and see if you can get it.
The book describes three kinds of meditation for slightly different outcomes.
My current favourite way is, or was, to breathe in, hold for 4, breathe out and hold to count of 4, a couple of times, then listen and watch your mind at work, noticing all thoughts for about a minute or so, seems like ages because it is hard to still the mind initially, then listening and trying to hear every sound in your house, the street/countryside and further, do that until you have at least a dozen sounds. It is easier in the city because you have noises of neighbours
Janilla