You can’t control who notices you. You can control what they’d find if they looked.

Attention arrives unpredictably, from people you were not performing for and at moments you did not choose. Trying to manage who looks is mostly wasted effort. What you can manage is the state of things when somebody does: the work finished, the habits in place, whether your record matches what you say about yourself. Readiness is the part that answers to you.

Ask what somebody would see if they examined your work this week without warning, and fix the one thing you would not want found. Keep something finished and presentable at all times. Then stop checking whether anybody is looking.