#ThrivingThursday

thrive
THrīv/
verb
grow or develop well or vigorously.
prosper; flourish.

A few years ago one of my favorite bands, Casting Crowns, came out with a song titled "Thrive." There is a line in the song that has caught fire, so to speak. "It's time for us to more than just survive,
we were made to thrive"

The word thrive is what really sticks with me. It's such an intentional word - one that is weighted with so much meaning, so much more than what the word "alive" conjures up. The word alive indicates breaths being taken, brainwaves active, blood flowing. But the word thrive. The word brings to light what life is really supposed to be - developing, prospering, flourishing.

I'll be honest, I don't feel like I'm thriving. I feel, most days, like I'm just getting by - just surviving. And a lot of that is my own fault, I get too much into my head. Here's a really helpful article I found about getting out of my own head, if you find yourself struggling with the same problem then maybe you will find some helpful tips in it as well. (Here's another article about getting out of your own head and overthinking - totally different ideas.)

Surviving is passive, there's nothing active about it. But thriving - that's being proactive about life and as long as we are fighting for it then we'll find it.

On #ThrivingThursday I'm challenging myself, and you as well, to remember...

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.

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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