But when you're afraid you've got this Fear cocktail pumping through your body.

It's cortisol, it's DHA, it's adrenaline.

Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast mini series on Fear,

with our guest host and fear expert Patrick Sweeney.

In this week's episode, he lays out a simple set of steps to get your day off to the ideal start.

And he explains the brain science, chemistry, and neurology behind each one.

Stay tuned to the end of the episode.

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Hey, I'm Patrick Sweeney.

Welcome to the Spartan Up Podcast on Fear.

Today we're going to talk about courage and what you can do to change your life

from being stressful to courageous. You're the type of person who wakes up in the morning

and you feel immediately compelled to jump into action you feel stressed.

What you're probably doing is releasing the stress hormone called cortisol into your body to get

jumping for the whole day.

Oftentimes this happens because people are reacting

in the morning when you wake up.

So the good solution to this,

and a quick and easy way to start your day off well,

to think clearer and better, is to create a morning routine. There are three things

that I do every morning and sometimes I'll increase this to four or five but doing

just three things every morning you start out with

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