If web searches are any indication, achieving a work-life balance is the key to health and happiness. Both Google and Bing show nearly 20,000 search results, including plenty of content that over-complicates what can be a simple objective.

Here, we simplify some of the best ideas into a practical plan you can begin implementing right away.

1. Define your priorities

Wikipedia suggests the idea of a work-life balance means properly prioritizing career, ambition, health, pleasure, and leisure. To do this, you first have to define what matters most to you. Make a list of all of the activities that you devote at least two hours to each month, from exercise, to work, to social and spiritual pursuits.

As you’re thinking about the activities that comprise your life, consider what generates the most positive outcomes. What activities lead to disproportionate results in terms of financial, health, or gains in any other aspect of your life? What activities reduce stress? Prioritize what already works, and especially what’s working right now.

2. Allocate a slice of your time to each priority

Get organized by taking a fractional approach to dividing your limited time. Here’s one that you can amend to your liking, because it allows you to approach the objective with a good level of organization.

Rank your individual priorities and then break them into four tiers, so that when there is a substantial dropoff in the value of a priority (For example, work at #2 and gardening at #3), put a line denoting a tier under work. Priorities #1 and #2 are now tier 1. Now allocate your time based on this formula. Tier 1 gets 45% of your time, tier 2 gets 23% of your time, tier 3 gets 17% of your time, tier 4 gets 10%, and tier 5 gets 5%. There is nothing scientific about these percentages, so feel free to amend them as you see fit. They are simply a starting point based on average recommendations from several sources.

3. Plan your first weekly calendar by the hour

Using the percentages of time that you have decided to allocate to each priority, create a first week calendar. What you may find especially difficult is to incorporate enjoyable activities and private time into each day, but this is especially important to your health and happiness. The first week is a trial run, and what you will discover as you organize your time is that you will be accomplishing more in a week, preferring activities that combine priorities, and minimizing unproductive tasks such as impulse shopping, snacking, and time wasted on mobile devices.

This is your first week, so perfection isn’t the goal. It’s about taking an important first step toward improving your health, happiness, and ability to keep promises to yourself and everyone that matters to you. A work-life balance happens best with proper planning, which explains the popularity of the topic online.