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Has there been a time in your life when you needed a kick in the pants, something to get you moving toward your dreams? Or maybe you've noticed the perfect inspirational message at the exact time you needed it. Me too.
My little "kick in the pants" came from an Oprah show in when the “QVC/Oprah’s Search for the Next Big Idea” event was announced. This show triggered something in me because I had a product invention idea in mind but I needed a nudge -- something to help me make the leap from "why me?" to "why not me?"
Being vertically challenged, and okay maybe a few pounds over my desired weight, I love to wear long pants with high heel shoes for a long slimming silhouette look – ahh don’t we all. But when I wore my favorite open-back heels with my long pants I experienced what I affectionately started calling the “Heel Wedgie!” This is when the fabric of your pants gets bunched up between your heel and shoe. Don’t you just hate that? Yikes ~ it's not only frustrating, it’s distracting. As a mom of two wonderful boys, I understand that women’s time is a valuable. We don’t have time to muss and fuss over all these little wardrobe malfunctions that stand in our way of getting the important things in our day done - we just want to basically fix it and forget it, like a crock pot recipe.
Inspired by the Search for the Next Big Idea show, and wanting to help other women feel more confident, I quickly filled out the registration form and sent it off before I had time to change my mind. The next thing I knew we were on our way to the show in Los Angeles! I’d love to say I was one of the eight winners chosen but I wasn’t and that was okay because I learned so much and realized that was only one small part of this journey but it was the one I needed to get me going. As Walter Elliot once said “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”
