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Steve Morris:
This has been shown by the American Medical Association, by the way - that unhappiness at work is a cause for heart disease. And unhappiness at work - the principal determinate of that is your relationship with your direct superior.

Steve Morris, author of the book Glorious Leadership, says working in a stressful environment can take a huge toll on your health over time - so the best advice is…

Do something you enjoy - you work at something you enjoy. If it's naturally satisfying to you, you're going to get positive hormonal physiological changes from doing something you love - so chose a job you enjoy. Second, chose a boss that appreciates you and work with a company that appreciates you and what you do.

But if you can't choose those things - and most of us can't…

Then you need to be the one who gives yourself appreciation. The simple way that I've taught people to do that is just think of what's good in what you do- or why you do what you do - or who are you doing it for - and feel good about what you do. And that will physiologically combat those negative forces and start producing healing hormones within the body that have anti-aging - sort of put our system in a relaxed healing state. It can all be done just by feeling good about yourself; gratitude, appreciation and acceptance.

You can link to Steve's website from ours:somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.