Think about it, trying to prove yourself has to do with meeting expectations of the THEY in your life and external reaction/approval you are trying to get. Above all it really is just a way of justifying or defending your own quirks or as we call it your multicolored personality. Notice when you’re in a state of trying to prove yourself, it has everything to do with the future and gaining outside approval. In this state, you are definitely not living in spirit and in the magic of the moment that each new day brings.
We all do this many times a day just notice when it shows up for you and ask yourself what part of my personality and my thinking am I trying to justify?