try barring across all the strings at the first fret with your index finger only...and make sure you can get each note/string to sound....play them one at a time...
after you can do that...
add your ring finger to the C (a string-3rd fret) while keeping your barre on teh first fret...
(does this make a Fminor 7)
now make sure they all ring out one at at time..
after that...
add your pinky to the F (d string-3rd fret)
make em all ring out...one at a time..
after that...
add your middle finger to the A (g string-2nd fret)
pick em all one at a time again...
after you can do that and make em all ring clearly...
you did it!.

when i first started the F chord was the hardest for me.

but i feel that, like other things, if you just break it down into its simplest parts....it's easier to manage and get ahead.

i hope i made some kind of sense.
good luck
-G