Going through your ordinary life
These exercises, you can do on the fly, while being at work, taking a break, walking down the road, or driving home. They’re just thought exercises, so if you have a free minute, just go for it and pass the time in a useful way. They’re also very fun to do, once you get the hang of them 
Lucid DayDreaming
If you catch yourself daydreaming in the day, you can either interrupt it, change the subject, or continue with the train of thought: with this technique, I’m suggesting you do the latter, only this time, pay active attention to what you’re thinking, where the fantasy is heading.
It is not at all required to bring heavy thoughts into it, or derailing from what you were naturally thinking, just stay there and watch, and let it flow. You can surely add details, like if you started from a song, you can now see an orchestra playing it, or you going on an adventure with that as your personal soundtrack. If you found yourself losing grip, just get back to it and continue observing the present thoughts.
Get accustomed to your thoughts, learn the patterns they naturally follow, get used to being there and just watching them, learn how to stay lucid with the minimum effort on your part: it can get easy really fast, since being lucid is just composed of passive observation, and becomes thus effortless quickly. It’s just a back-of-the-head feeling that you’re there, and that in front of you is a fantasy, no need for anything else, your curiosity and enjoyment will do the rest, believe me.
Did you guess where I’m heading? By doing this, you will be able to insert lucidity into ND’s much more easily, without even risking of breaking the flow. From there, you are free to let the dream continue with you lucid, or pave your own road.
Retracing your thoughts, retracing your day
At random moments, stop for a minute and say “what did I just do?”; I can be either because you caught yourself daydreaming, or were distracted by some event or thought. You can trace the events backwards, starting at the last one and looking for the triggering cause of each, going more and more backwards in time, or forward form one particular event you remember.
Sample forward retracing: you stop, think of the exercise, remember you looked at a flower at some point, look back at it --> remember the chain of thoughts chain of thoughts “Beautiful flower” --> “That yellow is nice” --> “I have a yellow shirt somewhere” --> “My cabinet is messy” --> “I have to clean up my room today” etc. onwards.
Sample backward retracing: you think of your last thought and go find the cause for each: “I was thinking of my friend B” <-- “B looks really like the protagonist from that game.” <-- “Maybe that PC shooter would do for him” <-- “Trying to choose a good gift for A” etc. backwards.
You’ll notice you’ll be able to remember better if you were more aware during that period, and this is in general a great training, both for DR directly (you’ll notice how remembering dreams and reality are actually very close in their workings) and awareness indirectly (forcing yourself to remember tells a message to your SC, that you want to remember, thus you get to be more and more able to remember details of what happened, by being aware of them in the first place).
A more advanced routine can be practiced late in the day, possibly before going to bed: it consists in the same thing, only you try to retrace as much of your day as possible, this time you must do it backwards. Try to get as much as possible back: what where you doing, where were you going, who did you talk to, what did they say, what did lunch taste like, what were your thoughts etc.
Don’t worry if you forgot something, as it is natural at the beginning; if you find yourself dwelling over some detail, just skip it and get to something else, it will come by itself eventually. Plus, if skipped some parts at some point, noticing that you did means that you effectively remembered, and that’s a good thing by itself ^^
The idea can also be thought in the following way: if life were a dream, what would you write in your DJ at the end of the day? Be sure to remember all of the parts important to you 
Lucid Living
A good idea for learning to cope with being in a dream is, getting used to the idea, getting used to the feeling.
When you are in a dream, you surely look at things in a different way, experience an array of emotions that differ wildly from IWL experience, think completely different things. It is possible, anyhow, to become accustomed with it, and that can come with dream practice; but supposing we would speed up the process, you can always do that while awake. Imagine you’re dreaming right here, right now; what do you feel? Do you keep looking at things in the same way? I can bet a storm of thoughts has flooded your mind; what I’m asking you is, keep that belief alive, that wonder, and keep believing what is surrounding you is genuinely a dream.
You will have to keep this thought in mind, and you could repeat it to yourself every now and then if necessary: in such a way, you are training yourself to keep your awareness high, and to keep lucidity for longer; but in another way, you’re getting accustomed to the idea of finding yourself in a dream, so that next time you do find yourself in a dream, you would stay calm and think rationally, as you have prepared a great deal for this. Have you also noticed, how you started looking, listening more to things, noticing details you didn’t those many times before? Do you feel like your view has widened, you senses sharpened, and you have a general feeling of being there, alive, participating? That is indeed a very good thing, and is your awareness having a high time: it is a wonderful feat to possess in our daily lives, as its benefits go way over the LD-related ones.
You will find yourself more reactive while more relaxed at the same time, more aware of your body and more able to control it, and much more critical about your surroundings. You can notice how these benefits are both useful in dreams and IWL.
By doing this, you will be getting the chance factor out of lucidness, as you will be always lucid, be it in a dream or IWL.
To learn more, take a look at our Lucid Living topic part I and II, full of informed opinions and enlightening experiences. Always remember, life is but a dream :).
Affirming your intentions
This works on the same level of autosuggestion: you say out loud your intentions, your desires, and command that they be satisfied; but what are you doing this way? You are sending a message to your SC, multiple times, affirming a particular craving, stating it clearly; and by doing that, your SC will start acting towards your goal, silently and steadily. There is the need, however, to trust the method completely, and leaving things work their way. You can start observing the workings of this tech with simple tasks - “at the hour X” or “the next time I see Y” (it can even be a dreamsign, for combo points) “I will look at my watch/remember something/do this particular thing (maybe a RC)”; now, if you are thinking about it at it all the time, you are not helping at all, as it is not necessary to ponder about it before the time comes; so you just forget about it, and when the time comes, you’ll find yourself doing it automatically, and wonder how it happened. Well, that was your SC at work, and it can come of great aid for everything you state clearly and let it do by itself, trusting its work.
Leave your doubts behind, and just say you’ll do it, then go to bed happy. For direct LD inducing, you can use “In X minutes” or “At XX:YY” then “I will do a RC” or “I will know it is a dream” or any variations of the aforementioned. A nice topic on the subject was made by BenDrummin58.
Tips
- This can be coupled with MILD practice: when you affirm before bed that you’ll notice that dreamsign and check for reality, you are stating your intention, in the same way this technique suggests; just remember to build confidence in the practice with simple/unrelated-to-LD goals, and build up your way to what you really strive for; as already stated, setting a dreamsign as a trigger is great practice for powering up your recognition of the dreamstate.