Your Fear of Mistakes Is More Dangerous Than the Mistakes Themselves

In law, you're expected to be perfect.
One poor performance in court.
One wrong call in a mediation.
One error in judgment with a client.
And your reputation is automatically destroyed - or so it's thought.
For 15 years, I've watched lawyers and barristers live in fear of making mistakes.
The profession (and you) demands this.
And it's costing you everything..
Here's what I learned as a barrister, mediator, and high-performance coach:
The lawyers building the strongest reputations aren't the ones who make the fewest mistakes.
They're the ones who recover from them strategically.
They acknowledge what went wrong.
They fix it.
They move forward.
Meanwhile, the 'perfect' lawyers are stuck replaying conversations at 2 am, trying to maintain a 'perfect image,' paralysed by the fear of the next mistake.
The difference?
One group treats mistakes as catastrophic.
The other treats them as information/data.
Your clients and teams don't expect perfection.
They expect you to deliver the best possible outcomes.
And when you don't, they expect you to handle it with integrity.
The mistake you made last week that you're still replaying?
How you handled it is what they'll remember.
Stop letting the fear of mistakes cost you more than the mistakes themselves ever could.
👉🏻If you're tired of the fear of mistakes controlling your performance, apply for your free Winning Edge session HERE
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