What Sweat Says

Monday Mountain
6/20/2016

There's something to be said about the sweat on someone's brow when they are hard at work. The intensity and the labor applied cause the body temperature to rise and as a result the body perspires. This perspiration speaks volumes to the effort and conditions the worker is willing to put themselves through in order to achieve the objective.

I try to practice the belief that you should let the sweat on your brow speak to the volume of your success rather than your words. It's not always easy to do so when you have a white-collar job, so in those instances what speaks about how successful you've been is the quality of your work and the diligence of your work.

Sweat, whether it is metaphorical or real, says what you have done, what you're doing, and the look in your eye says what you're going to do. Let's sweat in our work, leave those sweat stains at our desks and prove that we earn our keep. Sweat on your blade, into the fire, through the floods. Let the wind cool your body and ease your determined spirit.