What's your day look like? Well, it's up to you!

Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose. Mary Anne Radmacher

Is this day on purpose for you? Are you looking at this day with anticipation of what can and will be? If not then you've got a long day ahead of you. Here's the deal. It's all about our attitudes and perspectives. Leaning forward into our days and lives gets our heads and hearts in the game (so to speak). Dragging ourselves into our days and lives keeps us sour and whiny. Lately I've been wishing people a happy birthday with the expressed hope that they can spend the day celebrating the life God has gifted them with. That's an attitude of leaning forward into your life. And while we all have an "off" and bad day now and then, overall our lives have purpose and we should eagerly lean into that purpose. (Yes even the mundane has purpose.) So lean forward into your life and see what purpose arises.

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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.

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.

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