Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.
Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.
It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.