“Dave Navarro wrote recently that worrying about what you’re doing (or not doing) is the surest way to keep you poor and unsuccessful.

It’s a cracking article with a heap of good points, one of them being that the key difference in the way successful people operate is that they see failure as an integral part of the process of achieving success.

That’s true. Unless you plan on spending all your time underneath your duvet, failure is in your destiny. Trying to minimize or avoid failure will not help you be successful.” – Steve Errey, Copyblogger

Of course failing isn’t your goal. But taking it with a grain of salt, and figuring out what you did wrong is, in my opinion, a fantastic way to learn. And look at it this way: unless you fail day after day, without seeing any successes whatsoever, you’re probably not going to lose your job or repel a client. (And at that point maybe you should re-evaluate the line of work you’re in…) We’re human, and humans understand humans.

You have high standards for yourself and that’s great. But the occasional mistake should be included in those standards.