Great post here : http://lbtoronto.typepad.com/lbto/2006/09/failure.html about failure and how we blame the clients for being afraid of failure and therefore not risking anything but how actually we need to accept that we have to let go too. It's interesting because it's something I've been thinking about since I became a planner: How do I know that I've done anything, achieved anything? So far I can claim one great ad to my name but that might also just be because it's a genuinely superior product. Otherwise I remember someone saying to me or reading somewhere that it's a drip process of achieving success. You just have to keep on saying the same thing again and again to different people and maybe eventually one day what you've said might turn up in some board meeting and everyone will think it's great and they won't know it's from you.
So I'm as guilty at not letting go as other people. In my defence I believe strongly and have often said that no-one really knows why anything happens, there is no scientific formula for commerical or personal success and so sometimes you just have to let it happen.