When You Screw Up on a Freelance Job

It's inevitable. Eventually you will screw up on a freelance job. You'll forget to spell check an article that you had to write last minute. You'll mess up the links your client needed embedded in a review. You miss a grammatical error on the second page. Sh*t happens.
What you do afterward is the important part. Here's the steps you should follow when this happens:

1. Suck it up. Yah, you screwed up. Don't pout.
2. Fix the mistake ASAP.
3. Apologize for your mistake.
4. Don't promise it won't ever happen again. Hey, you're human.
5. Make a checklist of things to double-check before you send a final draft so that you'll be better prepared to avoid mistakes next time.
6. Forgive yourself.
7. De-stress by taking a walk or calling your hubby, best friend or mom.