So for this week’s Hot by Blogher Challenge, I chose the personal challenge.

I was supposed to think of 1-3 people I would like to trade places with for a day, people that I might call my heroes. And then try to figure out what I admire and what I would like to see in myself that I see in them.

The therapist in me was both challenged, scared, and excited.

I had to stew with this for several days. I had a hard time thinking of anyone at first. And then, after Biggest Loser on Tuesday, I thought about the show that is usually on after. And how often I have said, “I would love to be Olivia.” That’s when I realized that maybe the people I want to be more like are fictional characters. And then the floodgates opened. I had to limit myself to 3, for your sake and mine.

1) Olivia Benson.

I hope you have watched Law and Order SVU. Such a great show. Kinda late for this old lady, but I still catch it whenever I am still awake. I would love to be Olivia. She rocks the short hair. She is SO beautiful. It doesn’t matter what she wears. She can run in heels. She is professional, brave, devoted to her job and her partner, and expresses her feelings without fear. I just love her. Honestly, I pretty much want to be her because I want to look like her. I’m being honest here, right?

2) Penelope Garcia

Another crime-solving show? Yes. I LOVE her character on Criminal Minds. She stays at the home base at the computers and figures out the logistics of what the rest of the team needs to know in order to find the victims/catch the bad guys. Why do I love her? She is not thin. She is always INCREDIBLY cute. She’s not afraid to do wacky things with her hair, her glasses, her jewelry, her writing utensils. She is flirtatious with her team and they give it right back to her. She always keeps her cool. She always finds the answers. Everyone loves her, appreciates her, respects her, and knows how they depend on her. She is 100% herself, all of the time, and never thinks of toning down or apologizing.

3) Miss Piggy

Speaking of never thinking of toning it down or apologizing…

Why do I love Miss Piggy? Why not. I want to be so much like Miss Piggy. She has never doubted herself. She has never doubted that she deserved the best. She has never thought that maybe Kermit wouldn’t love her or find her attractive. She has never worried if she looked fat in anything, if her pearls were long enough to fasten around her neck, if she would be the fattest girl in the room, if she was good enough. She’s always known she was perfect and that everyone should love her. In her world, there is no room for self-doubt.

So what about you? People in your life. Famous people. Fiction people. Who would you like to be more like?