They are some of Australia’s most successful women and what do they all have in common? A daily ritual they stick to day in, day out. Read on to see which daily habits of these inspirational women you can steal for your own.
To protect her fair skin from sun damage and keep it looking youthful, Nicole Kidman applies high-factor sunscreen every morning. “I wear sunscreen, I don’t smoke and I take care of myself, and I am proud to say that,” she told Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
Lorna Jane Clarkson, founder of the fitness apparel retail giant makes time every day for the ones she loves. “Spending quality time with my husband Bill and walking my dog Roger are daily rituals I am unwilling to compromise on,” she told Popsugar.
Layne Beachley may be a seven-time consecutive world surfing champion, but it’s the simple pleasures she relies on. Her morning ritual includes drinking hot water with half a lemon and honey.
Journalist and media consultant Sarah Wilson starts each day with an exercise session at the beach. “I don’t faff around the house,” she wrote on her blog. “It’s clothes on and out, down the hill, on my bike.”
“I get up at about 7am… for a brisk morning walk and 30 minutes of meditation by the duck pond,” chef, author and restaurateur Kylie Kwong told Body + Soul.
Film star Naomi Watts relies on daily meditation sessions to keep her “calm and steady”. She told Daily Mail: “I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking.”
Fashion designer Alannah Hill spends half an hour every day on her cosmetics routine after feeling “plain” as a young girl. “I announced to everyone that I would never, ever be taking my make-up off, she told The Age. “And, basically, I never have!”
Journalist and businesswoman Ita Buttrose revealed to Body + Soul: “I really believe in breakfast. I start the day with a piece of fruit before I exercise and after that I’ll have something like mushrooms or scrambled eggs and grilled tomato on toast.”
A punishing off-season daily exercise regime sees tennis star Casey Dellacqua kick-starting her day with sand dune climbing or jogging up all 234 steps of Sydney’s Coogee stairs.
In order to get to sleep Miranda Kerr enjoys night-time rituals, “like a night-time meditation, lighting candles and misting my face and pillow with calming lavender,” she told ONTD.
