Trust me, you are far from the only one. Here’s some practical advice:
1- Prepare one slicha for each day (I do the pizmon) ahead of time as if you were going to teach it. Translate it. Read it as poetry. Look up the psukim. Understand the literary devices. Then when you get up to there during davening you appreciate it because you don’t feel like you’re seeing it for the first time.
2- If you drink coffee before shacharis, do it this week. If you don’t, do it anyway. If you’re saying slichos before dawn like we should, there’s no issue.
3- This shabbos, find some time –not at the expense of your nap — to lear through the collections of psukim we say at the beginning of slichos and right before vidui. Look them up in context. Learn some of them with commentaries.
Now, if anyone has any advice to help me concentrate during the Geonic parts towards the end, please let me know. That’s where I really need chizuk.