Oprah Winfrey's Daily Routine

Oprah Winfrey hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show for 25 years and founded the OWN television network. In January 2017 she gave an hour-by-hour account of her day at home in Montecito, California. She has never set an alarm: she wakes between 6:02 AM and 6:20 AM because her dogs are trained to go out then.

In The Hollywood Reporter she made chai or a skim cappuccino at 6:45 AM and was in her home gym by 7:05 AM for 20 minutes on the elliptical, 30 minutes on an inclined treadmill and sit-ups. She meditated at 8:00 AM, ate breakfast at 8:30 AM, then spent the morning on calls, video conferences and finance before lunch at about 1:00 PM. Afternoons went to calls with her teams, dinner came at 6:00 PM or 6:30 PM, and from 8:00 PM she read by the fire. At 10:00 PM she got into bed and wrote down five things she was grateful for.

It's for anyone who wants a calmer day without a lighter workload: a slow start, exercise and meditation before work, and a fixed wind-down. The diary covers one day, so all seven repeat it. The end of her working afternoon, the length of lunch and the time with her dogs are our estimates.