Confidence Comes Through Competence

I've had a hard time recently with varying decisions within my life and business. I've had so many personal questions that I didn't realise were affecting my overall decision-making capabilities and that, in turn, affected the speed at which I made business decisions.
Weird, right?
I embarked upon a little journey internally to try to understand this and do you know what I found?
I found that somewhere along the line, over the last few months, my confidence had been knocked. The more I dug into that the more I started to realise that it's actually because of something great that is happening: my business is growing, and it's growing rather fast. The challenges that follow a period of growth are logistical ones, they are problems with scale and with pushing the resource limits that you've previously set up to run your business.
These challenges are solved by planning, by looking ahead at where you want to be as a business and where you need to grow and develop.
But these challenges are different to the challenges that you face as an individual when your business grows.
Suddenly the decisions that you make feel like they hold more weight and I guess they do, somehow.
You're serving more people, you have a team looking to you for guidance more than you've ever had before and if you own the position of CEO in your business, you HAVE to face those facts quickly or you will begin to second guess yourself.
As I inevitably do when I'm stuck, I began searching for guidance and being the podcast aficionado that I am, I began to dig into some of the content over on Orion's Method, which in-turn started to remind me of the advice that I used to give the students when I spoke at universities a few years ago:

Confidence comes through competence

Speaking to the university students, I was talking to them about learning and honing their craft; how they'd become more confident as they became better at what they do.
And then the thought hit me: to get where  I am today, I KNOW my craft. Just like you know your craft.
Once I sat back and reflected upon my own advice, albeit advice from when I was much younger, my decision-making became crystal clear again and I stopped second guessing myself.
My point is this: as you grow, you will challenge yourself more and more. And because we all, we founders, expect excellence from ourselves there is no-one more harsh on us, than ourselves.
You got this. I have this. Be bold!
Don't forget, the more you expect from yourself, the more you WILL excel!