⭐️ Today’s Highlights: 

• Main Course: My personal playbook for breaking down mental walls.

• QUOTE: Why uncertainty is actually helping you.

• POLL: You chose what is served up next!

• TOOL: You can now see responses from EVERY AI in a single place!

• Movies vs. Reality: Find out which ones actually stick to the true story.

(Total read time: 8 minutes)

THE APPETIZER

Before we dive into today’s main course, let’s play an UNO REVERSE CARD 🔄

My #1 job is dishing out fresh content that’s interesting, useful, and of course… actually fun.

But today, YOU 🫵 GET TO PLACE THE ORDER! 

Tell me: What’s the one business or growth topic you want me to dive deep into next? What’s top of mind, keeping you up at night, or just flat-out interesting?

Pick your favorite  and let’s cook up the sauce you’ve been craving! 

Now for the good stuff, and as always, I hope you enjoy my sauce

- Patrick Frank

PAT’S SNAPPLE CAP

• 📝 Top Article of the Month: How startups like Vanta & Clay nailed their ICP and scaled to $100M+: (Steal their playbook)

• 💰Think starting a business is expensive? Here are the top 10 businesses you can start right now for under $10k: (See the list) 

• 🚨COOL TOOL ALERT🚨: Finally! See and compare responses from every Ai. all at the same time. (Check this out!)

• 🎣 Fav ClickBait: RANKED Every state from best to worst (Where does yours land?)

• 🪏Deep Dive: How accurate is that “based on a true story” movie? (See the facts)

Like the rest of the world I recently watched: The Conclave. I am by no means religious, but given the new pope it seemed like a timely movie to watch. This scene was one of the best monologues I have seen out of Hollywood in years and one that I think hits extremely hard not just for religion, but for life.

• Nothing is certain, the more we think it is, the more we get proven that we are wrong. Be uncertain….be curious about the mystery of life and have some faith you’re gonna make it through to what you’re striving towards. 

  Some Sauce For Thought

THE MAIN COURSE: What to do when you hit your wall.

Every entrepreneur hits it eventually….that seemingly impossible-to-overcome wall. Maybe growth has stalled, you’re second-guessing every decision, or you're straight-up burned out.

Here’s the good news: You haven't failed, you have just figured out where your next phase of growth is about to begin. Today I am going to outline the steps I have personally taken every time I have hit a wall and how I got around, over, or through it. Whether that was sleeping in the office, completely reseting my routine, or taking off to another country for half the year.

Step 1: Diagnose the Real Problem. (And accept it) 

Personal and mental walls are different than physical walls. Physical walls are typically big and in your face. The personal and mental walls show up in sneaky ways and typically feel invisible. You know they are there… but they are hard to understand and see…Therefore making them even harder to get through.

So it’s important to understand how to diagnose the issue to make your wall appear. 

How invisible walls feel and what they mean. 

• You’re busy but not productive = Directionless. 

• You’re second-guessing every decision = Self Doubt.

• Growth has flatlined despite hard work = Burnout. 

• You’re tempted to scrap everything and start over = All of the above. 

Like most of you, I have experienced every single one of these. In different ways, in different areas of life, and in different businesses. The fact is, they happen, and they SUCK.. And it sucks to feel stuck. 

My reaction historically has always been just pushing harder, doing more and burning out even more… As you can imagine, this is not healthy nor helpful. Thats why I changed the approach to:

• ZOOMING OUT.

• ANALYZING.

• CREATING A BATTLE PLAN. (OUTLINED BELOW)

Step 2: Break Your Patterns. 

When you hit the wall, incremental changes aren’t going to work. You need something dramatic enough to shift your perspective and momentum.

• Environment Change: Literally, change where you work. Go remote, rent a co-working space, or switch your room around. Your brain associates environments with routines. Break the cycle by first breaking your environment. 

  • PERSONAL EXAMPLE: Once a year for 4 months out of the year I work from Costa Rica. This completely resets my creativity, my routine, and general happiness to take on the rest of the year. 

• Routine Reset: Flip your day upside down. Schedule creative tasks in the morning instead of meetings, or block afternoons for strategic thinking instead of admin tasks. Workout in the morning instead of the evening or vice versa. 

  • PERSONAL EXAMPLE: This was a major shift. I used to stay up till midnight and work and wake up at 6am. The switch to a 4am wakeup and 10pm bedtime help radically change my productivity output.

• Change Your Inputs: Fresh ideas require fresh inspiration. Break the echo chamber of your typical information cycle. Explore a new newsletter, a new podcast or book. Change your diet or exercise routine. Reach out to interesting people to see if they are open to chat and share knowledge. (You will be surprised at peoples openness to do this) 

  • PERSONAL EXAMPLE: For me it was all of the above. I am a man of extremes and if I need to change something I change everything to ensure that wall comes down. 

 Step 3: Lean Into Discomfort (Seriously)

Any type of growth is uncomfortable.

• For your body….(Working out)

• For your mind (Solving hard problems).

• The Doubt and discomfort that comes along with the process, means you’re growing…. And that’s where the breakthroughs happen. 

🔑 The key: You have to redefine discomfort as growth. Anxiety isn’t failure; it’s fuel. Distract from anxiety with ACTION and prove anxiety wrong. 

Strategies I have used: 

• Do a rapid, small-scale test of something radically different.

  • Personal Example: Launched a course, and directory for startup tools outside of my normal roles as COO. It ended up teaching me how to rapidly develop web assets that I now use everyday. 

• Take a public commitment (announce a new goal online) to force accountability.

  • Personal Example: Committing to hitting a body fat % (8%) on social media in an insane timeline of 30 days and hit it. 

• Practice deliberate, small acts of courage each week.

  • Personal Example: Started reaching out to people I thought would be impossible to get in touch with. Resulted in new connections and mentors.
    

 Step 4:  Borrow Belief & Upgrade Your Circle

Sometimes you need more than just yourself. The problem is, if you aren’t surrounded by people who can bring out the better version of you.. You will end up staying right where you are. 

Borrowing Belief: When you can’t trust your own optimism, lean on others. Seek mentors, coaches, or even communities that see your potential even when you can’t.

• Find a mentor who’s navigated your exact challenge.

• Get an accountability partner. Share your goals, struggles, and timelines.

• Schedule a "belief check-in" once a week with someone you trust.

Upgrade your circle: You are your network. If you are the best in it, you need to find and build a new one. 

• Mentors & Advisors: Grab coffee (or Zoom) with someone who's navigated your exact challenge. They'll spot your blind spots instantly. Use platforms like Lunchclub or Clarity.fm to quickly connect.

• Founder Communities: Join ambitious groups like Indie Hackers, Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), or Young Presidents' Organization (YPO). Post openly. Founders love sharing battle scars and advice.

• Fresh Perspectives: Regularly attend workshops or webinars via General Assembly or Maven to expose yourself to smarter ideas.

Step 5: Take Small, Quick Wins

Momentum is addictive though fleeting. Beware of the momentum trap as walls require discipline. However, stacking wins..(Which requires discipline) generates momentum…. That’s what we are after. Don’t try to overhaul your whole business at once. Break your challenges down into tiny, achievable actions:

• Micro-goals: Forget quarterly KPIs for a moment. What's the one thing you can accomplish today to regain your confidence?
  

• Celebrate Immediately: Recognize small wins immediately. Reward yourself. Your brain will learn to crave progress and therefore action.

🧠 Your Action Plan:

1. Identify Your Wall: Is it burnout, self-doubt, or feeling directionless? Pinpoint it clearly.

2. Shake Up Your Patterns Immediately: New workspace, flipped schedule, fresh inputs. Choose one and start tomorrow.

3. Redefine Discomfort: Lean into anxiety as fuel. Pick a small, bold experiment and announce it publicly.

4. Borrow Belief & Level Up Your Network: Schedule a mentor chat, join a founder community, or find accountability.

5. Stack Quick Wins: Set micro-goals you can crush daily. Celebrate them openly.

Final Thoughts:

Learn to love the walls. Embrace them. They create an invitation to evolve, grow, and rewrite your limits and where you are in life. The wall in front of you isn't permanent….It’s temporary so as long as you accept the invite to smash through it, or find a way around it.

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If today's sauce sparked something inside you, check out Business In A Box. It’s everything I wish someone handed me when I first got started

Whatever you decide, keep moving forward, stay curious, and keep life interesting. You owe it to yourself.

That’s a wrap everyone. See you in 2 weeks, and as always. 

Hope You Enjoyed My Sauce. 

- Patrick Frank