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Sounds like you’ve done great work to prepare for the worst – which is certainly very important, so that things don’t throw you if they happen. On the flip side, it’s important to spend a good bit of time preparing for the best-case scenarios as well. How much time do you spend visualizing exactly what you want? When things go precisely as you’d love them to? Where you get absorbed into imagining the details of exactly the experience on-stage you’d love to have? I like the personal highlight reel exercise as a way to incorporate this easily into your daily routine. You can certainly do a more extended, and detailed mental rehearsal as well, especially as you get closer to the day of a big audition or performance.
But to sum up, I think it might help to adjust the ratio of positive visualization to adversity/resilience visualization so you do more of the former. Make sense?
