​When our life is so busy how can we make time for introspection and journaling?

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so given our fast paced life in the ashram how can we actually find time to keep track of to write down we have so many things to do how to write down our desires and how to keep track of them actually yes our life can be very fast and what I do is sometimes if I get a good thought if I am not able to write it down then I just record it just one sentence record it and afterwards when we have time we can write it down this is technically called as oral journaling oral journaling is not as powerful but at least something some ideas remain later on that can be added and secondly it’s not necessary that we have to keep track of all our realizations it is that some things just like we sometimes compile our notes many times we have notes in our classes but how many other notes do we refer not much but still just even the act of making notes increases our concentration so without hearing maybe without making notes we may have similar 20% or 50% with notes we assimilate 40% or 70% or 80% whatever so like that just noting down is also a way in which we are remembering Krishna it is like we when we our whole life is devotedly oriented and then we try to write some realization then we are actually remembering Krishna by remembering how Krishna is acting in our life or by trying to understand how Krishna is acting in our life journal can be either report or it can be also exploration what is happening in my lecture try to make sense of it so that way it is not necessary to keep track of everything and sometimes we might just after writing something this is really very good we just take one sentence out and put it somewhere so I usually nowadays I am only in a computer because then it is very easy to cut paste and get in between computer and phone or whatever but in general it is not necessary that we have to keep track of just the act of writing itself increases our focus increases our contemplation increases our connection with Krishna at least for that time just like most of the time when we hear classes how many other classes do we remember that but at least during the period of classes we are connected with Krishna we have remembered Krishna at that time similarly during the period of journaling at least I find that when I write because writing is my main self writing is the time when I am most absorbed in Krishna even when I am speaking I am not that absorbed in Krishna when I am speaking I am observing how people respond and I have to try to think of that and adjust my presentation but in writing I completely absorbed so that absorption itself is good once I ask Jaidut Maharaj how do we define success in writing Maharaj says Krishna is glorified that is the success Maharaj that is true we try to glorify Krishna and that’s the purpose of our life of course we would like to glorify in a way that people also come to know about Krishna’s glories and people become attracted to him but that is a secondary result we focus on glorifying Krishna and in one sense when we are writing down his illuminations that is also glorification of Krishna because we are writing down how Krishna acted in our life or how we see how Krishna acted in the world around us so just the process itself is important we don’t necessarily need to have a product tangibly visible from the process the process itself will deepen our connection with Krishna