#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 !

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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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