It doesn't matter how good you are. The world has to know it. They are also better than that. I asked an audience of Women Entrepreneurs in San Francisco. Everyone raised a hand.
Some people put up two hands.
Like many of you, I have had a wonderful business, great employees, and many successes. I have also been disappointed, had hard-earned funds embezzled, and had people quit at the most inopportune moments. I managed to live through every single experience, and grow from it. It's relatively easy to look back at business disappointments and realize that they were just part of a regular up and down cycle. When you survive a few such cycles, you become a lot more valuable to your clients.