Construyéndote started like many things that truly matter: with doubts.
For a long time, I wanted to have a project of my own. I heard the usual advice, "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life," but I was never sure that my interests were enough to build something upon. And in the meantime, I procrastinated. I took small steps, yes, but weeks could pass between one day of real work and the next. I preferred to go out, do other things, anything rather than face something that felt too big, too different from everything I had done until then. I didn't quite believe I was capable.
What did change things was my interest in self-knowledge. I started to dive into it, to understand it better and better, until one day it stopped being just something I did for myself and became a different question: what if what was helping me so much could also help someone else? That’s when the idea of creating my own journal began to take shape.
Because writing had always helped me ground myself. Putting on paper what I felt, what I thought, what I hadn't liked about the day and what I had. So I decided to build the journal I would have liked to have: one that wasn't just about productivity, but also about having space to think.
Why 13 weeks and not a whole year? Because a year is overwhelming. Because missing just one day in a twelve-month planner can feel like failing at everything. Thirteen weeks is different: it’s too short to get discouraged, yet long enough to take seriously. And reaching the end truly feels like having achieved something real, much sooner than you expected.
If any of this resonates with you, if you have also been mulling over something for a long time that you still haven't dared to fully start: welcome. Construyéndote is not just a journal. It is the idea that you don't need to have everything figured out to start, you just need a real space to build, 1% each day. And hopefully, over time, this will also become a community of those who are building their own thing, each at her own pace.