You can manage it by considering your age and your position in life, maslow's hierarchy would be helpful. Leo's video - Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs To Self-Actualize.
If one is younger, he can follow his passions and build a good life position first.Because down the road he would have built strong work ethic, discipline, rituals and most importantly he would have experienced lot of thing in life. And those can be helpful on the journey to enlightenment. But of course it's possible to became enlightened in young ages. Not saying focus on one thing here . nope. So best thought would be to align it with meditation and self conscious work. what about others opinions.