diff --git a/examples/new_project_templates/lightning_module_template.py b/examples/new_project_templates/lightning_module_template.py
index 994c162121..359c85a8c5 100644
--- a/examples/new_project_templates/lightning_module_template.py
+++ b/examples/new_project_templates/lightning_module_template.py
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ class LightningTemplateModel(LightningModule):
 
         try:
             if self.on_gpu:
+                print('distributing')
                 train_sampler = DistributedSampler(dataset, rank=self.trainer.proc_rank)
                 batch_size = batch_size // self.trainer.world_size  # scale batch size
         except Exception as e: