@nyllkeyy

sometimes the life you planned isn’t the life you end up building. Sara Blakely wanted to become a lawyer, but she failed the LSAT twice. instead, she spent seven years selling fax machines door-to-door, saving money while trying to figure out what came next. at 27, she came up with the idea for Spanx after cutting the feet off her pantyhose. she had no fashion background, no business degree and just $5,000 in savings. she spent years building the product herself, faced rejection from manufacturers and even wrote her own patent. Spanx launched in 2000 and turned into a global shapewear brand, eventually making Blakely the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire at the time. she started out wanting to be a lawyer, spent years selling fax machines, then built a billion-dollar company from an idea she had in her bathroom. maybe potential isn’t about knowing exactly where you’re going. sometimes you don’t see what your potential is worth until you actually put it to work.

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