6th Gear, congratulations on your first solo! Please don't under-state the achievement
. Personally I still get more pride thinking back to what that first solo flight involved than I do looking back at any other (incl Instrument Rating test & first line check).
For me, that's because I found that flight one of the hardest. Everything still felt very new: just being in an aircraft, the flying itself, the radio, the airborne environment, the thought of an emergency etc etc and then the fact that you're on your own compounding it all. For me it has been like Camp Freddie describes in his first point about familiarity and repetition.
I have found that as I have gained experience new things have become easier to learn as there is more spare capacity for it. My confidence has developed incrementally, unlike many I know who seem to have been born with it (lucky them!). All I'm really trying to say is i hope you do stick with it because for some of us that 1st hurdle is the hardest and it does get easier and more fun from there
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The poster who suggested taking a series of lessons on successive days and then having a dual lesson immediately before the solo sounds really sensible. It's what worked for me (and a good instructor of course).
Best of luck and hope soon to be hearing how much you are enjoying it all. BM