Your business works. Clients exist. Revenue exists. The market validated the idea a long time ago.
But the business still runs through you.
Not because you have failed to delegate. Not because your team is incapable. Because decision authority was never structurally defined, so everything defaults back to the person who will make the call. And that person is always you.
Decisions stall until you respond. Managers bring you problems they should be solving. Things you delegated find their way back to your plate. And time away from the business feels more like a risk than a break from it.
This is not a character flaw. It is not a leadership failure.
It is a structural gap. And structure can be fixed.