It begins with knowing how much compassion, gratitude and energy truly matters in creating a beautiful life.

It’s about embracing happiness, building enduring relationships and helping others.

It’s bringing an updated sense of good social skills and flair into everything we do.

It’s taking the time to be generous and thoughtful, despite the frenetic pace of the world we live in.

In other words, it’s all about being gracious.

It’s all about turning our backs on the careless world of quantity to embrace an exquisite life of quality.

It’s using our resources to bring uncomplicated beauty and wonderful experiences into our lives and into the lives of others.

It’s perfecting the art of living well.

It’s knowing that whether we’re on the fast track or in the unhurried lane, elegance belongs back in all environments.

It’s succeeding in life.

Trends come with the season. Socially accepted ideas of how to live our lives evolve and change with each generation.

Popular culture is, at its core, an enormous mass of people following a certain product or way of living our lives.

The media including social media, advertising, tradition, current social culture and the people with whom we may surround ourselves with, are expecting us not to stand out because if we do, then what?

I love the quote by Einstein and whilst it is a very simple concept that he shares, it’s so full of common sense.

It’s an idea that many are unable to master and as a result, choose to retreat back into the crowd rather than step out and shine.