The Reset You Actually Need - Day 10. Choosing Peace is the Power Move

Do You F*cking Mind?

Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 914 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Episode 10 – Choosing Peace Is the Power Move

(How Stability, Clarity, and Balance Actually Give You Everything You Want)
The Reset You Actually Need

For a long time, hustle culture convinced us that being busy meant we were getting somewhere.

In Episode 10 — the final episode of The Reset You Actually Need , we explore why choosing peace isn’t giving up on ambition, but refining it into something sustainable, intelligent, and far more effective.

This episode breaks down:

Why hustle culture confuses motion with real progress
How constant urgency fragments attention and fuels anxiety
Why peace of mind increases performance rather than complacency
How balance isn’t a compromise it’s an optimisation strategy
Why inconsistency creates anxiety and the illusion of “falling behind”
How overstimulation kills clarity, creativity, and fulfilment
Why slower, long-form thinking leads to better decisions and deeper satisfaction

We talk about the gap between where you are and where you think you should be and how that gap is often the source of chronic anxiety. Not because you’re failing, but because you’re trying to sprint instead of stabilise.

Choosing peace doesn’t mean doing less.
It means doing the right things, consistently, without burning yourself out.

This episode is about redefining success so you don’t have to escape your own life to survive it.

This episode concludes a 10-day mini-series designed to help you reset your mindset, rebuild self-trust, and step into the year calm, clear, and self-led.

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0:57.0	Hello, my beautiful beans and welcome to the last episode of the miniseries.
1:14.3	This is episode 10.
1:15.7	I can't believe we're here.
1:16.7	We are finally here and the episode is Choosing Peace is the Power Move.
1:22.0	So as you guys have probably gathered, I've done a lot of miniseries upon, well, I don't know about a lot, but I've done
1:28.2	quite a few mini series within the DYFM history, over the last five, six years, however long
1:35.9	this podcast has been going on for nearly six years, which is hectic to say. And often, when I talk
1:43.0	about, you know, drive, motivation, starting the year, it's very much gearing you up for big change, you know, big action, this, that, all of the above.
1:51.5	And I still am really big on that. I'm really big on making big changes in your life, setting the bar as high as you want to set it, have those big goals, knowing how
2:02.0	you can apply the things in your life to achieve those big goals.
2:04.4	But as you've probably gathered, this mini-series has still been about that, but more so
2:09.8	from the lens of creating that balance and peace and happiness in your life.
2:16.2	The reason I've done that is because that's very much
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