You’re setting yourself up for disappointment if every time you sit down to make something, you expect to make something great. Show me a good song, a good book, a poem, a painting, and I’ll show you a hundred failures that came before it. And let’s not call them failures.
It’s iteration. And iterating with high expectations is crippling. So if you sit down today to write or play, do it with low expectations.
You’ve got nothing to lose and it may lead to something great.