Kim Clijsters Quotes

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.

You can't do it all. You get many requests all the time, but I still have to focus on football, still have to live my life a little bit. But there are definitely times during the week when you want to take time out.

Every day, I kind of have in my brain a few slots of what I want to do. Like school, sleep, homework, 'Rookie,' hanging out with friends, mindless relaxation time, and then trying to do my own creative things.

There's never enough hours in the day to do what you want to do. What I've become OK with is that not everything can be done today. As long as I can get that time in with my son, then I can get all of the other stuff done today or tomorrow.

I like to have a lot of time to be able to format what I want to do, and how I'm going to do my training camp. When you're doing a camp on short notice, it makes everything else suffer.

My personal challenge is always balance. My life has a lot of compartments to it, and I care about each of them deeply. So I wake up each day thinking, 'How am I going to balance today?'

We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

I've learned time management, organization and I have priorities.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.

I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

A good organizer is key to anyone with a busy social life.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

Focus on being balanced - success is balance.

Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.

It's really a full-time job to manage our lives.

If you want an active schedule, you have to husband your time so you can act on the things that are important.

I have always had a very busy life. The difference is that a lot more people are helping advise me what to do, and a lot more people are observing what I do. But in terms of time and working schedule, it is not that different from my normal working week.

Time management is really key for me.

If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.