Thanks suqa! I liked going short again!
sunglasses cheap from mr.price
Vintage teardrop earrings

Love this blu dress I stole from my sisters wardrobe!
Wore it on saturday…

Umair Haque (ranked one of the world’s most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50) is my source of inspiration today and he writes about DOING MEANINGFUL WORK!
He writes: maybe the real depression we’ve got to contend with isn’t merely one of how much economic output we’re generating — but what we’re putting out there, and why.

Call it a depression of human potential, a tale of human significance being willfully squandered on mediocre endeavors

If that’s the best we can do, no wonder our economy is falling short of its potential — and no wonder our lives occasionally feel empty, even meaningless. (Even star quarterbacks married to Brazilian supermodels occasionally say to themselves, there’s got to be more than this.) Hence, If we want to do better, I suggest it’s time to get lethally serious about doing stuff that actually matters. So here are three questions to ask about yourself about what you’re spending your life doing:

Does it stand the test of time?

Ponder this for a moment: the vast majority spend the vast majority of our lives sweating, suffering, and slogging mightily over stuff that’s forgotten by next quarter, let alone next year or next century. Call me crazy, but I’d suggest: mattering means building stuff that’s awesome enough to last. Maybe not forever, like Giza’s Pyramids — but surely more than a couple of months, before it’s absent-mindedly tossed into the dustbin of history along with the rest of the flotsam and jetsam of the age of disposable plastic junk. I’d give you a handful of recent real-world examples, but beyond the labors of love a new generation of artisans are working on, whether microbrews, novels, or games, here’s the hard truth: when it comes to the stuff our largest institutions are invested in, I can’t think of any, so poor is our cultural performance at standing the test of time. (Just ask yourself: is anybody really going to be watching Mission Impossible 4 a century from now, except a handful of irony-soaked action-movie-worshipping 22nd century hipsters?). Of course, all that really means is that since nearly everyone seems to suck at standing the test of time, you’ve got a tremendous opportunity not to.

Does it stand the test of excellence?

In most boardrooms, the first and last question asked is: will “the markets,” financial and “consumer,” like your latest shiny trinket slightly better than the next guy’s? Of course, that’s a perfect recipe for mediocrity: to have barely satisfied weary, oppressed, jaded “consumers” already trained to demand the bare McMinimum is to have furiously smashed the glass ceiling of the lowest common mass-market denominator — and little more. Here are some higher bars: do critics, scholars, aficionados, and diehard enemies pan it, or love it? Mattering means recognizing that everyone’s opinion is not created equal — some count more than others, for the simple reason that some opinions are more nuanced, educated, sophisticated, historically grounded, and self-aware than others.

Does it stand the test of you?

Sure, I can understand why the dudes and gals I’ve been overhearing in my little Manhattan adventure are so energized by the stuff they’re “working” on — it feels exciting to be part of a buzzing milieu’s in-crowd. But let’s face it: on our deathbeds, the accomplishments that matter most to most of us probably won’t be recounted thus: “In 2012, I sold another thousand copies of someone else’s middle-of-the-road blockbuster to an overweening VP with really bad hair and worse manners at a giant monopolistic corporation that was destroying my grandkids’ futures. Man, I lived.” So while I too sometimes feel enchanted by the seductive power of glittering fantastic excess that seems to have mesmerized my little informal sample of Manhattanites, I’d also like to challenge them — and you — to consider the questions of mattering in a slightly more sophisticated, humane, considered way. It’s one thing to work on stuff that seems sexy because it’s socially cool and financially rewarding. But fulfillment doesn’t come much from money or cool-power — all the money in the world can’t buy you a searing sense of accomplishment.

Being human is never easy. But that’s the point. Perhaps as an unintended consequence of our relentless quest for more, bigger, faster, cheaper, now, we’ve comfortably acceded to something akin to a minor-league contempt for the richness and grandeur of life unquenchably meaningfully well lived. Hence, call this post my tiny statement of rebellion. Hex me with all the bland management jargon in the world, zap me with all the perfect theories and models you like, but I’ll never, ever accept the idea that triviality, mediocrity, and futility are appropriate goals for any human being, much less our grand, splintering systems of human organization.

We’re all built differently — but none of us is here to not make a difference. So what are your three questions for getting lethally serious about doing stuff that matters?

I really need to get off my butt and start blogging more often..sigh
its just such a BUSY time right now its cray! (gangster for crazy!)
but for today- here’s an interesting look- i think i love the boots!

xoxo
Sean

I also got into the Brogues fad (quite late i know- but i like to take my time with fads to see if they are in line with my personal style!) the comfort is amazing! they totally look like men’s shoes which i LOVE so i’m planning on pairing them with a lot of lace, florals and pretty girl dresses- shorts and tights!

My new brogues

Angelina Jolie: The simplicity of this dress won me over! Plus the red lips are oohh la la!!

Emma Stone looks poised and regal and i like the colours!

Never really been a fan of the 'oops ran out of material for the front' kinda dress, but Charlize Theron looks decent!

Nicole Kidman: Like I said- it was slim pickin's - I like the detail on the dress...- ends.

Quick! Some-one call Justin's Grandma - his fiancee Jessica Biel just stole her doily to make this dress!

Things just aint sitting pretty in this one lea Michele..wrong color, makes you look weird and V shaped...oh, its a rather long list!

Do I even need to explain why this is one of the 4 worst outfits on the Globes red carpet?

Mila Kunis: Unflattering- makes her look short and dumpy for one, has too much going on!

feel free to agree/disagree with my picks!
xoxo
Sean
Pictures credit to peoplestylewatch.com

New beginnings, a new year – the past has become and you are looking for a new start- its been 365 days, it’s been 12 months, 48 weeks- but what is this concept of time ?

The passage of seasons? The sun rising and setting and leaves being shed?
Winter setting in – or experiencing a wet and then a dry period?

So very strange this idea of time that we should measure our lives in terms of the ticking seconds on a clock..
That sometimes you feel like you have lived through four decades but society tells you no – in our time you are twenty-nine.

I think I am going to change all that – I am going to live the next installment of my life in experiences – so the next person who walks up to me and wants to know my age?
I will simply say – ‘why I am 5,678,987 experiences old! and I keep gathering more!’
- so my aim is to stretch myself like I have never been stretched before – to challenge myself like I’m in this race against myself, yes even occasionally to lose myself but find myself- to stop letting all the conventional ways and titles of he world define me and bind me to convention – release the shackles of mundane thinking and base expectations, of mediocre living and hard feelings – to be a source of happiness for others which is truly the only way that I will find happiness and contentment and to un-learn all the fears that others have projected upon me!
Fear of the passage of time, fear of embarrassment, fear of failure, fear of rejection and heartbreak.

It is; if you will, a return to an age of innocence of sort – for I doubt that at the age of 10 or less experiences (what the world would call a baby) you had any fears at all!

So as the year comes to a close and you begin to make those new years resolutions – mine is as simple or as complex as to formulate my own concept of the passage of that simple construct – TIME.

1- Keep it simple
2- Dress for your body
3- A pair of heels ALWAYS makes a difference!
4- Don’t be afraid to mix casual with heels/an expensive jacket
5- The hair is an essential part of the wardrobe!!!

The nude look really works in this ensemble!

Pretty as a flower in a pretty dress... Notice the nude pumps again!

Simplicity and Class

Confession- i love the handbag most about this look!

loving the cut on the jacket, casual tee and heels ! Casual meets fab!

MY LEAST FAVOURITE LOOK?

Even Vic gets it wrong! this one's here to cheer you up if you had a bad fashion day recently!! eeewww