CRY REAL TEARS

Unless there is some taste for chanting and hearing... it is not possible to restrict the senses. Simply a promise to chant 16 rounds and follow 4 regulative principles is not enough. As a matter of duty is not enough. Simply going through the motions of devotional service is not enough.
At some point there has to actually be some real taste. We have to want Krishna more than anything else. We have to pray to get that desire and a taste. Beating the mind into submission with the maha mantra.
"O Internal Energy of the Lord, O Lord Krishna please engage me in Your service..." And cry real tears.

 At first there is some taste just from doing a particular service... successfully moving the material energy around for Krishna... Building this or arranging that. But there is another taste... that does not depend on a particular service. Has nothing whatsoever to do with moving the material energy around. Has nothing to do with the material senses or material body. That taste is accessed through pure hearing and pure chanting.