If your workload seems to leave you with no time for fun and leisure, you may need better strategies for balancing work and life. Some pros recommend planning your fun first and obligating yourself to the leisure and recreational pursuits you enjoy, and then scheduling your workload. Practicing this strategy toward work-life balance will cause you to work more effectively, help you resist distractions that interfere with timely completion of work, and focus your attention like a laser on that work which is most important. At first, creating "forced" obligations for leisure and social activity will challenge your work schedule and add to your stress. However, in time you will prove to yourself that you can fashion a more balanced work-life arrangement. You will feel more accomplished, less trapped by work, and less resentful of the control you imagine time has over life.