#WingItWednesday

Are *you* a wing it kind of person? I am generally not. I prefer to plan things, to know something of what's coming up. Although the older I get the more loose I have become. So in my advancing age I have been learning to go with the flow more and more.

Turns out there is an actual science to winging it. It may be more of a social science but it's been studied all the same. Read about it here.

There's benefits to going with the flow, to winging it. Benefits range from physical to emotional. Benefits such as:
*Increased flexibility (mental and emotional not so much physical. *wink*)
*Thinking outside the box
*Open to insights that would have been impeded
*Greater resilience
*Acceptance of what is, rather than focusing on ‘what if?’
*Reduction in frustration and anger
*Lower levels of unhealthy stress
(source)

Sometimes it isn't our choice to wing it. Sometimes we are pushed into it and that can feel very awkward and, depending on the kind of push, hurtful. What happens when we have no choice but to wing it? Well, our reaction to it can make it beautiful or ugly. Here's some thoughts on making sure our wing it time is beautiful.

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.

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.

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