Confidently Cruising

Hello High Heelers

As you read this post, I am cruising across the Atlantic Ocean with pina colada in hand and the glorious sun on my skin. Ironically, despite the picture perfect mental image, the way I’ve been feeling lately (which is rather whale-like) in the middle of the sea is definitely the appropriate place to be.

The evening before taking to the seas, I began packing for four days of wonderful, blissful eating, drinking, being lazy and increasing whale-like appearance. Yes. To my horror, I realised that on a cruise one wears bikinis and shorts and those flat slip-slops things – known to the Americans as ‘thongs’. Oh no! Really? So we rapidly increase our circumference while showing it all off to the world in flat shoes that make us look short? I don’t get the logic.

Sigh! Then beyond the half-nakedness, flat shoedness and embarrassing white skin exposure, one wears cocktail dresses, heels and fancy jewels after 6pm. What! So I found myself in the middle of a serious wardrobe malfunction of Janet Jackson proportions. I can do the heels part but I’m not an elegantly organised Natalie Maroun type-woman with cocktail dresses on demand, ready, freshly dry-cleaned and hanging in my cupboard waiting for me to be invited to a wonderful event. Fuzzwuckit!

So it was at around 10:07pm the evening before journeying off, while bouncing on my suitcase to see if it would close, that I realised that I was completely unprepared. What did I do? Well, I did what any High Heeler would do. I removed the handbags from my suitcase – since my travel buddy, Amy, had over packed in the bag department – and replaced bags with additional high heels (like REALLY high ones). I also popped in an extra red lipstick. Why? Well because that’s what makes me feel confident and ready to take on the world when I’m feeling a little shaken.

There are always things in life that catch you unprepared and put you right into your uncomfortable zone. It’s inevitable. Expect it. But always remember that the most awesome thing a High Heeler (and any respectable flat-shoed one) can wear is actually not a pair of heels – gasp! (Heels come second in this department) No. The sexiest, most glamorous, attractive and kick-ass thing we can wear is our confidence. So open up your mind and your heart to discover what it is that makes you feel confident – and wear those things with pride. To me – it’s a big smile and grounding myself with items that make me feel like me.

So today, I lie on the deck, high-heeled, red lipped, wearing a sexy smile and clothed in confidence. May I encourage you to find the things that make you feel your best, this week? Do it. They’re yours to use and wear. Have a wonderful week High Heelers.

Cheers,
Jo