Quotes About Balance

I arrange it by working four days away from home, and three days at home with the family, so I work four long days rather than five shorter. But it's hard because everything is on hold. We have to restore the family life during the weekends.

Maintaining a routine with my sleeping habits, even on weekends, has been a constant even when other aspects of life are hectic.

I treat it just like a workday. When I'm training, I'm training. When I'm not, I'm not. And when I'm not in fight prep, we have fun weekends.

It is so important to be active when you are young, and I think it would have helped me tenfold if, alongside 'Popworld,' school, T4, Radio One and all those other things I was doing, that I had played a bit of sport at the weekends with my friends.

My weekends are very important to me as it's the time when I can see my friends and family. Their jobs are regular ones, while mine can take me all over the place during the week.

We're with each other 24 hours a day. We film all week long. On weekends, we go on these tours. If we didn't have fun, it would be a problem.

At the weekends I eat what I want and during the week I obviously try my best to eat healthier foods.

I try to take a weekly digital Sabbath, batch my emails so I deal with them a few times a day rather than constantly, and increasingly give myself permission to ignore unsolicited communiques. I try, too, to give others more slack. The respond-now culture is a two-way street. I'm trying to be more mindful of that.

Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free.

With my job, I am designing spaces for families on a weekly basis, and that is where I get my creative outlet.

When I get my weekly screen-time reports from Apple, it's disturbing.

I trained in martial arts and wanted to become a UFC fighter. That was my goal. I only really learned how to dance three weeks prior to making 'Step Up Revolution.' Dancing will always be fun, but MMA is something I'll never give up. I will eventually get back in the octagon and be fighting professionally again.

I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks.

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.

About once every three and a half weeks, I need a Big Mac, but after that I'm fine.

I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.

Every December I take two or three weeks off. After an entire season of training and climbing, my body needs the break.

I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.

Sitting beside the pool is fine for two weeks, but after that I think it'd be quite hard to live with - so I need to keep racing.

I DJ a lot of night events - sometimes I may work 3 nights a week, and some weeks I don't work at all; other times, I'm working every night.

Strike a balance between resistance training, intervals, longer duration cardiovascular work, and flexibility. Don't stick with one approach then flip after a few weeks. Mix it up weekly, daily.

I nearly missed the births of both of my children, and both were around international weeks.

I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I'm prepping for something or I've been eating a lot of pie, I do two hours a day, six days a week for two weeks.

I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.