Acharya Prashant explains that in an ordinary life, taking a pause will ruin you. This is why many people prefer very occupied and busy lives, because if they have spare time, they will necessarily do something self-destructive. The moment a person has spare time, they self-destruct. Therefore, reflection is not something you do by taking out time exclusively devoted to it. If you have to take time out to reflect, it merely means that the life you are leading has problems. If your life has problems, then the time you take out from life will not augur well; you will misuse that time. Reflection or stock-taking has to be spontaneous and concurrent. Your life has to be such that it forces you to be spontaneously reflective. Only when your life is bad will you not be spontaneously reflective. Then you will want exclusive time for reflection, like spare weekends. But the moment you want exclusively devoted time for reflection, you have already proven to yourself that you are leading a bad life. A good life is one where you don't have the time to break away from it, even to reflect. A great life is one where you don't want to even reflect on it. You should lead a life that forces you to be spontaneously reflective. That must be the kind of work you pick up and the relationships you make. They should not allow you to stay unconscious. If you stay unconscious, you should receive a jolt, and reflection has happened. One must be reflective continuously, and that's the mark of the right life. It forces you to be continuously reflective and demands attention from you. If you do not give attention, that life will be spoiled. To maintain that life, you will have to keep supplying attention. Opt for such a life. On the other hand, you can conveniently go for a life where you can happily remain unconscious and still make a living. In that kind of life, there would be suffering, and then you will be forced to reflect, if you are lucky. But that reflection is just a kind of grief in retrospect. You are grieving over dead time. What's the point in reflecting now? Therefore, all reflection, all attention, must be in the moment. Be so occupied with the right life that you do not even have the time to write a journal. When you are in a bad situation and want some incremental improvement, thought is a great faculty. But a thinker is not of much use in missions that require total dedication because a thinker will always remain uncertain.