Mistakes

Remember that you can't expect yourself to always be on track, and doing what is right all the time. You will get off track, maybe even long way gone before you realise. But the important thing is this:

Once you realise that you have been going off track, going off the right path, not doing the right thing, making bad decisions, quickly gather yourself up. The rational choice is to forgive yourself, yet remember and learn from your mistakes.

Your past mistakes should not be an excuse for your present behaviors.

When you make a first mistake, and then you keep blaming yourself for it, instead of gathering yourself up, forgiving yourself, and getting back on the rational path, making usual, rational, correct good decisions and judgements, then you are liable to making a second much more grave of a mistake, which will land you in a worse position.

If you have landed in a pit, you don't sit and weep, and sink deeper, you get up quickly and find ways to get out of the pit.