'workable life' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a life that is feasible and manageable. For example, "Once I developed a workable life schedule, I was able to keep up with my studies and extracurricular activities."
MIT's socially aware robot could be a big step towards workable real-life service bots, which is something research funder Ford and other automakers are very interested in.
"Scientology has workable solutions to life's problems.
Even though I know this, I tend to discount specific government guidelines because they seem to change arbitrarily, and they don't seem workable in real life.
It seems that the industry's major stakeholders still prefer this turf to remain unlicensed rather than to allow real-life, workable and market-based solutions to emerge by working with new companies such as Sonific.
Since Bucky's death, I have been analyzing his experiment and using the ideas he found to be workable in my own life, and I can state from person experience that in living his life as a global citizen working on behalf of all people, he created the template for anyone to make a significant difference with their life.
It was an unconventional path full of risk, driven in no small part by the search for "a workable meaning for his life," as "Dreams From My Father," the memoir he published at 34, describes his journey.
Part of the reason for this lamentable situation is that business and government have mostly succeeded in keeping us all in two minds about ecology as a workable philosophy for daily life.
So the book became more personal — the record of an interior journey, as he put it in the introduction, "a boy's search for his father, and through that a search for a workable meaning for his life as a black American".
He calls his memoir "the record of a personal, interior journey a boy's search for his father and through that search a workable meaning for his life as a black American".
