Wake up at 5am, shower, make and eat a quick breakfast, then out the door or at your in-house desk, ready to handle your job. Next, after work, dinner prep, eat, then family or friend time. Tomorrow: repeat the cycle. Sometimes a smile, a happy moment, intercepts the moments of stress and that feeling of too much to do in too short a time. Does this seem familiar?

Blissful? This can seem far-fetched when moving through a daily routine, especially if it is accompanied by several obstacles that l...