09/09/2026
You hear people talk about going through a “dark night of the soul.”
I can tell you, I’ve been through my own.
The last couple of years have been brutal in some ways. Eye-opening in others. And, unexpectedly, incredibly freeing.
Doors opened that I didn’t know needed to open.
Doors closed that I didn’t realize needed to close.
Things I thought mattered stopped mattering.
And through all of it, I gained a massive amount of clarity about my life, my business, and the work I actually want to be doing.
One of the biggest things I’ve learned is to let go of the things that don’t bring me joy.
I talk about this with my clients all the time.
What are you actually good at?
What creates value?
What brings you energy?
What are you still doing simply because you’ve always done it that way?
Because somewhere along the way, I started noticing something else in almost every business I work with.
Patterns.
The same problems keep showing up.
The employee problem you thought you solved.
The cash crunch that keeps coming back.
The same bottleneck.
The same thing falling through the cracks.
The same customer issue.
The same conversation with your team.
The same thing you keep stepping in and fixing yourself.
We tend to look at these as individual problems.
Usually, they’re not.
They’re symptoms of a bigger pattern.
And eventually, every business reaches a tipping point where the patterns you’ve built are either going to help you get to the next level or they’re going to start breaking the business.
That’s why I created The Business Tipping Point: 25 Questions to Expose the Patterns Holding Your Business Back.
This is a free diagnostic.
It’s NOT a scorecard.
There’s no grade. No arbitrary number telling you whether your business is good or bad.
These are 25 questions designed to help you look at your business differently and start recognizing what keeps happening underneath the day-to-day problems.
Because whether you’re trying to go from $100K to $300K, $300K to $500K, $500K to $1M, or you’ve already built a much larger business that still feels harder to run than it should, growth eventually exposes what isn’t working.
And the patterns that are holding your business back are usually holding your life back too.
They’re costing you sleep.
They’re creating frustration.
They’re keeping you tied to the day-to-day.
They’re sucking the joy out of the business you worked so damn hard to build.
So I want you to start looking for the pattern.
Download the diagnostic. Go through the 25 questions.
Pay attention to the ones that make you uncomfortable.
Pay attention to the ones that immediately make you think, “Yep. That’s us.”
And really pay attention when several questions seem to point back to the same underlying issue.
That’s the pattern.
Once you can see it, you can start breaking it.
DOWNLOAD: lanysullivan.com/25-questions
Break the patterns that are breaking your business.
