Done, not Dusted. - by Strength ⚜️

I almost called it “the project that was mentoring me.” A few days ago, I shared an entry about a project that had been making me ment. Not mentor. Ment. It was stretching my patience, testing my confidence, and occasionally making me question why I had agreed to do this thing in the first place. Well well,DONE.✅ And not just done, excellently done. For a first try, I have to give it to myself. My coach testified. See<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/16B571B0-8784-476E-8ACB-326F14C162A3.jpeg"/> And that testimony did something to me.No, not because I needed someone to tell me I did well, but because there is this joy in watching yourself become the person you were hoping you could be. There was a time when I would look at videos of spoken word artists, and immediately wonder if I was capable of doing it. This time, I looked at the difficulty and stayed. I tried. I got things wrong. I corrected them. I tried again. And between the first attempt and the final result, I discovered something I think we forget too often: You don't always need confidence before you begin. Confidence is sometimes the receipt you get after doing the thing. We are often waiting to feel ready before we give ourselves permission to try. We want to know we will be good at it.We want to know people will like it.We want to know we won't embarrass ourselves.We want the assurance that our first attempt will look like somebody else's tenth. But first attempts are not supposed to look experienced, they are supposed to look like first attempts. So, the goal is not to start because you are already excellent. You start so excellence has somewhere to come from. This is why finishing matters. Every finished thing is not perfect, not even my project, but completion gives you evidence. Evidence;- that you can learn- that you can endure being a beginner- that the thing that intimidated you yesterday can become something you are proud of today. So, yes. The project is done.I am smiling at myself a little more than usual.And if you want a catch of it, you can find it on Instagram or TikTok. Instagram: <a class="tc-blue external-link external-link" href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd9fG6Mqnfm/?stkn=OGU5dDlpdDVmcmNy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.instagram.com/reel/Dd9fG6Mqnfm/?s... </a>TikTok: <a class="tc-blue external-link external-link" href="https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSb5D2Cva/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">vt.tiktok.com/ZSb5D2Cva/ </a>However,Do not underestimate the person you could become simply because you have never been her before. The only difference between “I don't think I can do this” and “I actually did this” is one brave first attempt. Mine happened to be this project.Yours?Now go do that thing anyway! <img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/41B9CC5A-E1B6-47F4-9669-95582DD1A453.jpeg"/>

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