When You Need a Proof of Completion

How completing one small project became evidence against my inner critic.

A woman holding a puzzle piece to be placed on the puzzle where she stood at, with a cherry blossom tree next to her. (Co-created with Canva Magic Media).

This is not going to be a long post.

I’ve been working on this project since December 2024 and have been hush-hush about it. Except to my Instagram audience - I’ve mentioned about this a few times.

This is a project about something I’ve been baffled about, tried finding a solution online but couldn’t find any. So I decided to create one.

But apart from that particular solution, this project has a personal significance to me. By completing this project, it’s a proof that I am capable of starting and completing something.

As someone struggling with completing a project (and have a tendency to start new ones), this has been reflected on low self-esteem. For an overthinker, this becomes the main food for the inner critic.

By competing this project, this adds a written proof to the inner critic that “Hey, I actually finished this one project” and slowly building my personal power portfolio.

I’ve written the introduction piece to that project below, and recorded a video if you prefer to watch it.

Thanks for reading 🙏 (I told you it’s going to be short!)

P.S.: If you resonate with this, let me know how so in the comment below.