Which Is Working: Your Hand or Your Body?

The work of your hands.

Work is  work right?  Wrong!

I'm here, on my way back from a stressful day at a client's office,  the last thing on my mind should be work right?  Wrong again!

It is work actually work: work, work, work. But this time, the work of my hands.

So you're thinking, what's the difference: my hands work, my body works right?

Wrong yet again!!!!

There's a big difference between the work my hands do and the one my body does. I have two fundamental differences to show you now. Of course there are more than two though. But let's see these two.

1. The hand creates, the body expends.

When the work you do is the work of your hands, when you're done, something definitely would have been created. At the close of each business day, something that didn't exist previously would have been created. Builders, wielders, lawyers and accountants alike.

The work of your body on the other hand is identified by something being expended.  When the body works, calories are burnt, when the hand does, creations are made.



2.The body sweats, the hand doesn't.

Except you have ultra sweaty palms, the chances are that your hands don't sweat. Even if they do, it only means the rest of your body is already dripping of it. Sweat I mean.

When the job you do is the work of your hands, even the sweat is sweet. The work of your body on the other hand produces maximum sweat simply by running around.

Notice this the next time you take a walk. Just walking about,  aimlessly, your body begins to sweat. The sweat from the body doesn't point to hard work, or good work, or important work, it just points to work.

I know some of us are stuck with the work of our bodies, but the thing with life is no matter how you look at it, it almost never leaves us without choices. We can always chose different. The change from your choice might be small, and slow, and untraceable at first,  but start.

If you must do the work of your body, let it be that it is because it sustains the work of your hands. Living a life where your hands don't work is like a rat spinning in a wheel. You're going nowhere fast.