What to do if we get too many services and our sadhana goes down?

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Sometimes you may get too many services and maybe as sadhana chanting goes down, should we try to do all the services that we get or should we just try to focus on one or two? So, the easiest way to make ourselves unhappy is to try to please everyone. Shortest cut. No, we can’t please everyone in life.
Even the devotee community can’t please everyone. So, sometimes we just have to say no. We have to say no politely.
We have to explain why we have to say no. We have to say no. So, it’s not that we have to do every service that comes our way.
But if some senior devotees are telling us, especially those devotees who are in the position of guiding us, who are important for us, who are understanding us, who are advancing, they give us some service, we definitely do it. But we also should know that we have limitations and they also understand that we have limitations. So, we can tell them, no, I’m getting these five things to do now and I cannot qualify.
I can only do what we should do. They will tell us, this is good for you, you can do that. So, generally speaking, we do want to focus on our sadhana.
But quite often, it is that we have a lot of time for sadhana. And we have a lot of time for say reading or chanting. And the mind will start finding that.
So, it’s good to have a little pleasure. Most of us know what is considered a comfort zone, stretch zone, and panic zone. So, like that.
If I can lift 10 kg weight and if I keep lifting 5 kg weight, muscles are never going to improve. But if I can lift 10 kg weight and I suddenly lift 30 kg weight, I’ll be crushed. So, if I can lift 10 kg, then I can try to lift 11 kg, 12 kg, 7 kg.
So, like that. Similarly, when we are doing services, we do want to expand our services. But we have to be realistic about how much we can do.
So, if we are in the comfort zone, we will not grow. If we are in the stretch zone, we will collapse. Sorry, if we are in the panic zone, we will collapse.
If we lift 30 kg weight, we will collapse. But we can be in the stretch zone. What the stretch zone is, we ourselves can learn from experience.
Sometimes we may go into the comfort zone and say, I’m not doing anything. I should be doing more. Sometimes we may go into panic zone.
It’s too much. I can’t do this. We will come back.
So, gradually, we learn from experience. As long as our intent is to serve Krishna, then Krishna will guide us towards how to do it practically. Does this answer your question? I have a question.