The people who trade in comfort for more free time identified more balance and less stress as their motivation. Working mothers routinely juggle as many as seven things at once - from meeting a deadline to lining up a baby sitter.
Men routinely juggle three things.
First you need to identify what is causing your stress. To more effectively manage the stress in your life, you need to develop stress-management skills. If you feel overwhelmed at work, you need to investigate how to organize yourself to better control the ways you spend your time and energies. Set goals and time lines, control your tempo by planning ahead, predict the amount of work you can accomplish in a given time period, and stick with decisions once you make them. If you feel you lack support from others, you can manage your environment by controlling what and who is around you.