Sometimes the creative move is to make the thing smaller and finish it this week.

Scope is the usual reason projects die. An idea grows while you plan it, and past a certain size it stops being something you can carry to the end with the time you actually have, so it sits unfinished and starts to feel like evidence about you. Cutting it down is not giving up on the ambition. It is choosing a version that can exist.

Halve the project you have been carrying, then halve it again if you need to. Define what finished means in one sentence. Get there by the weekend and let the bigger version wait.