Choice?

So last week was a stressful day. I was proud of myself though, most days I exercised and meditated which is sometimes hard to get both done consistently. When meditating, as hard as I would try to clear my mind, I found my mind kept going back to work. Did I email this person, oh, that needs to get done, did this person do that….Did I mention I work from home?
I’ve talked to several folks who work full time from home about the challenges and benefits. It’s great to wear whatever you want and difficult to have work staring you in the face on weekends. My ability to manage many projects at once and to focus intensely for hours makes me an ideal person to work from home. Yet, for me having such easy access to work whenever my obsessive need to worry (or need to control) hits definitely falls into the “challenges” category. I can become consumed and usually give all of my energy to work tasks and have no energy left, usually kicking off my cycle of not taking care of my spiritual, emotional and physical needs.
I enjoy managing big projects and getting tasks done, but I’ve been trying to figure out where the balance is between working frantically because overwhelmed and making a choice to do something. And what about making a choice purely to meet others expectation? Where does intuition fit in? How do we listen to our intuition?