Career growth and work-life balance are the two most important factors for the under-30s who constitute one third of the Indian workforce, quite different from the older generations that placed emphasis on loyalty, job security or rewards. Getting the right work-life balance is something many of us struggle with. It requires a combination of discipline, diplomacy and juggling. Everyone is different and you really just have to find what works for you. For me, it starts with setting boundaries and protecting some personal time each week. This article discusses the development of the concept of the ‘work-life balance’ as a means of tackling the problem of increasing amounts of stress in the work-place as people try to juggle a wide range of factors in their life/work environment, including: work; family; friends; health; and spirit/self. It is argued that, of the factors involved, work is the one which is most elastic and can be managed in such a way as to avoiding jeopardizing the other factors.