What happens in your heart when you hear that you were created to praise God? Those of us who still wrestle with our old nature might take offense to this. We prideful humans like to feel we are captains of our own destiny, masters of our own free will. It offends our flesh to be told that God made us to praise Him. We say, "I'll decide for myself who I will and won't praise, thank you very much!"
Such an attitude demonstrates that we've yet to truly get a taste of God's glory! When you hold up a pinwheel on a windy day, it doesn't take coaxing or convincing to spin; spinning is a pinwheel's nature in the wind. It would have to fight against its nature to not spin when the wind blows. Or think of a balloon, once it's been filled with helium: floating is the natural state! If we were able to talk to that balloon, it would tell us to please fill it with helium so it could float and fly as it was created to do.
Once you get a glimpse of God's beauty, His glory, and His majesty, once you begin to witness your life through eyes of faith, recalling to your memory all of His promises and the good things He's done for you and the rest of His church, it will also be your natural state to praise Him. Words and songs of delight - once you've observed His wonders - will pour from your mouth the way 'yummy' sounds do when you eat the most delicious food. When you've really "tasted and seen that the Lord is good", it would instead take effort to not praise Him.
Those of us who still struggle to scrape together enough willpower to praise God are putting our effort in the wrong place. Instead you should be learning about all the wonderful things He's done, counting your blessings, reflecting on the hopeless situation He saved you from, remembering all the answers to your prayers, searching the scriptures for His beautiful promises. Once your eyes are fully upon Him and your heart and mind are full of His glory and truth, you will find praise effortlessly pouring from your lips.
"What is worship? Recognition of such excellence, quality, and beauty of what I am beholding that it demands a response from my heart. Anything less is not worship." - Pastor Anthony Turner