#ThoughtfulThursday

Do you have a personal standard of conduct? Have you ever thought about it? Today's quote about thoughtfulness has me thinking. Places of business have standards of conduct in their employee handbooks (usually) and it serves as an outline for how they expect employees to behave in the workplace and sometimes outside of it as well. Well, what about a personal standard of conduct? For #ThoughtfulThursday consider your own personal standard of conduct and consider making thoughtfulness part of it.

Try one of these thoughtfulness ideas today:

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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.

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.

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.

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