#WellnessWednesday

Wellness is a much more holistic issue than losing weight or working out. It involves every single area of our lives.

Today as I think about wellness I am thinking about water. Water is one of the best ways to promote wellness for each of us. And yes, this definitely relates to the wheel above. Water feeds those areas that are wellness in our lives. For example, our brains:

Water is key for functioning well. It does a lot more for us than keep us hydrated - check out all the ways it keeps us well...

So a key to true physical and mental strength is drinking water - lots of it. And after a night of no intake make sure you start off each day with water, here's a few reasons why:

In developed countries we are fortunate to have access to clean, drinkable water. This is not the case for underdeveloped nations. So in addition to water for your wellness why not help provide water for someone else's wellness? Check out these organizations, for a start, that are dedicated to bringing clean water to people who don't have access. (As always I recommend you do a quick check of org's on Charity Navigator just to make sure they are on the up and up.) Consider donating to one to help bring wellness to others.

Have a water filled #WellnessWednesday !

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

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