# @michaelgervais on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DVq8AZTkXzC
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63250473-michaelgervais-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-03-09T16:47:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dr. Michael Gervais (@michaelgervais) — https://gondola.cc/michaelgervais

## Caption

Here are 4 simple steps to start you start your day the right way.

Comment “morning” below, and I’ll send you my FREE Morning Mindset Routine audioguide to ensure you start the day like a high performer.

1. Take a breath 

Before you tune to the outside world. Tune to the inside world.

One breath. Send a signal to your brain and to the circuitry of your brain that you’re in control of the show. 

2. Thought of gratitude

This is a way for you to hold space to wake up a particular circuitry in the brain that is not threat detection, but is optimization. 

Once we start going through the day, most of our brain circuitry is designed to find the dangers and mitigate them. 

If we can start our day training a different part of our brain, which is like what’s good, it sets us up for a whole different way to experience life later.

3. Be intentional 

Close your eyes and just imagine specific times in the day on how you want to show up, how you want to be. 

What’s my intention for today?

4. Be present

Take your sheets off and flip over to the side of your bed, stand up, or just kind of be in that position for a moment and just be where your body is. That’s it. Be present.

One breath, one gratitude, one intention, be present.

#psychology #mindset #mastery #morning

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morning, mindset, psychology, mastery

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