12 Ways To Improve Work-life Balance, Starting Today

1. Insist meetings are 45 minutes not units of 1h. That allows some processing time.
2. Define work-life balance for you; really clearly. It's difficult to access if it stays general.
3. Get a stress management strategy beyond alcohol and coffee.
4. Zone work so that it doesn't 'leak' into 'you' time, children time, meal time....
5. When you add an activity, drop something. You can do anything, but you can't do everything.
6. Write stuff down so your brain can work at solving challenges rather than remembering trivia.
7. Go on an assertiveness course.
8. Introduce systems for typical hassles such as no food, no clean shirts, forgetting to pay a bill. The web has 100s of ideas to help: search super specifically for what you want.
9. Get a bigger picture: what are you doing all this for? 'The kids' is not enough. 
10. Decide to get more healthy over the next decade, whatever your age. Not the reverse. 
11. Spend more time with people and less time with machines.  
12. Do one thing today.