How to Balance Making a Living With Living a Meaningful Life

How do you balance making a living with living a meaningful life? Balancing creativity with life goals, balancing creativity with work. Is it possible? I'm not sure I figured it out yet. All or nothing. Either I'm so into it and I can't stop or I can't start. It's one of those challenges,. You want so much to be in the mood, but how can you create the right context and conditions to be inThe mood? Sometimes it's a fight. And I wonder whether I'll ever figure it out at all.