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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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.

A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

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