#TrainingTuesday

Today's training is about our brains. And it's not new training, per se, but retraining. A lot of us have brains that need to be exercised in new ways. A retraining is in order, we've fallen into thinking patterns that have turned into actions that need to be changed. Check out this article I found, Retrain Your Brain—And Break Free From The Patterns That Are Holding You Back.

So take time today to consider how you might need to retrain your brain so that you can be successful in whatever you do!

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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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