“If the good times are all gone, then I’m bound for movin’ on.”-Neil Young

This may be the best career advice that I have ever heard. Life is way too short to spend time in a job or a career that fails to bring joy and fulfillment. Or worse yet, a job that brings aggravation and dread.

There is currently a tremendous body of evidence indicating that emotional well-being plays an enormous role in determining physical health. Unfortunately, I see way too many people allowing themselves to be ruled by the negative emotions that they attach to their jobs without realizing that their physical and emotional states are intertwined.

A classic but truly sad example of this is the phenomenon of Monday morning heart attacks. More first-time heart attacks occur on Monday morning between eight and nine o’clock than at any other time. That’s mind-blowing!

This happens because people experience a negative emotion, commonly called stress, when they have to go back to work after the weekend. They whip themselves into a negative emotional frenzy that leads to cardiac arrest. Only humans have accomplished this feat. Presumably no other animal knows the difference between Monday and Tuesday.