In recent researches wireless sensor network (WSN) is measured as most vital, complex and interesting new technology in data communication and gathering various kind of information which is not possible for human. Major challenges in WSN are lifetime and energy consumption; to overcome this many protocols have been constructed for better performance by considering the parameters like energy consumption, throughput and the network lifetime in WSN. To overcome this problem and to improve the performance need not only to minimize total energy consumption but also to balance WSN load. In this paper, we propose a General Self-Organized Tree-Based Energy-Balance routing protocol (GSTEB) which consist of a tree based structure for the process of routing where in each round, the BS assigns a root node and broadcasts its selection to all other sensor nodes. Simultaneously, each node selects its parent by considering themselves and their neighbors information, thus making GSTEB a efficient protocol. Hence simulation results show that GSTEB has a better performance than other protocols mainly in balancing energy consumption and prolonging the lifetime of WSN. © Research India Publications.