>I think one of the biggest reasons people don't give themselves a work-life balance is peer pressure and the desire to please others first. This is the root o

>I think one of the biggest reasons people don't give themselves a work-life balance is peer pressure and the desire to please others first. This is the root of the issue in my opinion. When I fail to achieve work/life balance, it is usually due to one of two things: 1. To please my direct co-workers, manager, CEO. 2. To please everyone else — that is, make enough to live the way I envision other people expect me to be living, and doing the things I imagine them expecting me to be doing. Living for even the imagined expectations of others can take a heavy toll. It took time to unlearn that way of thinking.