I have busted a few checkrides along the way it happens dont worry about it. Learn from the mistakes and push forward.
If you become a CFI use the pitfalls that you recgonized from your instructors and train better students. Push to be a step higher from there level.
When your flying people or cargo for money and you find the airplane or weather is not good delay or dont fly it.
Everyone gets cought up on schedules and timing wanting everything to run flawless, sometimes its better to just say no we have to fix this first before we go or we have to wait awhile for the storm to pass.