#WinningWednesday

This #WinningWednesday I would like to talk about mistakes. Life winners make mistakes and learn from them. Too often we tend to consider mistakes as a negative thing, but in reality they are one of the best ways to learn, grow, and win.

Some of the people that have been the most successful at life are actually fans of making mistakes because they have recognized the lessons learned from those mistakes helped them succeed. Tallulah Bankhead, an actress, said this about mistakes, "If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner." She makes an important point about mistakes, outside of the fact that they were important to her success. We tend to run from mistakes, shift their fallout away from us, avoid them at all costs, delay their impact on us but if we would just allow them to happen and come our way we could benefit from their lessons much sooner. So don't be afraid to make mistakes, and if you don't believe me then read this article.

Still not convinced? Here's 20 reasons why not making mistakes is the biggest mistake to make.

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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