The Reset You Actually Need - Day 9. Less proving, More Choosing
Do You F*cking Mind?
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
4.9 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Day 9. Less Proving, More Choosing
The Reset You Actually Need
So much exhaustion comes from trying to prove your worth.
In Day 9 of The Reset You Actually Need, we explore what happens when you stop performing for validation and start making decisions from clarity, self-trust, and alignment instead.
This episode breaks down:
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The difference between proving and choosing and why it matters
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Why proving is reactive, while choosing is grounded and powerful
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How the need to prove often comes from unresolved self-doubt
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Why proving keeps you busy, but choosing actually moves you forward
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How choosing makes boundaries feel simpler and more natural
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The discomfort that comes with choosing and why it’s necessary
This episode isn’t about becoming cold, dismissive, or disconnected.
When you stop trying to convince people of your value, your decisions get quieter, clearer, and far more effective.
Part of a 10-day mini-series designed to help you reset your mindset, rebuild self-trust, and move through the year with calm authority and direction.
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| 0:26.6 | Visit petjavity.co.com for full details. Hello, my beautiful beans and welcome to episode nine of our miniseries, the reset that you actually need. |
| 0:47.6 | So I can't believe we're at episode nine. |
| 0:49.6 | We're nearly at the end. |
| 0:50.9 | And as of next week, we're going to go back to regular programming. |
| 0:55.1 | Slightly different though next week. A little quick rundown of what's going to happen, which is going to be |
| 0:58.8 | slightly different, is that from next week, it's still going to be the two episodes, the Monday |
| 1:04.6 | normal episode where I pick a topic and it's just me talking about the topic, teaching you guys |
| 1:09.1 | most of the time there'll be a brain fact, |
| 1:11.1 | all of the same. Friday's still head noise, but I'm adding a second head noise episode on the Wednesday |
| 1:17.3 | because we're getting so many questions and I feel like the head noise episodes are getting |
| 1:21.7 | more and more and more popular. People are really resonating and that way it gives me the opportunity |
| 1:26.4 | sometimes if there's like a bigger question or like a kind of a more intense topic way it gives me the opportunity sometimes if there's like a bigger |
| 1:27.8 | question or like a kind of a more intense topic it gives me the opportunity to delve deeper and |
| 1:33.0 | spend a little bit more time on particular questions if need be so we are going to be adding a |
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