I invest in small businesses and am the CEO of Skylink Group.
As an eight-figure small business owner, I’ve learned many lessons over the years, both good and bad!
This is why I want to help you improve your performance, profit, and potential without sacrificing what’s most important.
Join me, and GET OPTIMIZED!
-Nate Anglin
Are you tired of all the stress life is throwing at you?
Some days it feels like an elephant has taken a home right on your back.
Other days, maybe two elephants.
It happens to all of us, some more extreme than others.
I’ve been running and growing Skylink Group for over 10 years now, and I can say, it’s been quite the ride.
Goals are good. Execution is mandatory!
Far too often, we set goals to never look at them. To review them. And most importantly, to strategically think about them.
I’ve been the CEO of an international firm for many years now, and one thing I’ve learned is that planning plus execution is where the game is played. This is where we win.
It’s where you score.
This is true for your personal and professional life.
In the sections to follow I’m going to share with you how I create the bones, the framework for my goals, which allows me to execute.
In our hyper-connected life, everyone wants more.
More technology. More apps. More houses. More cars. More stuff.
Myself included! I recently found myself going down this rabbit hole in my business.
I’m a technology nut. I love things that can make us faster, better, and stronger as a team, without adding more complexity…people.
Sorry humans.
We had a marketing stack of about 25 pieces of software deep. I’d jump to the next shiny object and “try.”
Do you often feel your goals are a dream? A fantasy!
You’re stuck. Progress isn’t being made. You’d have more luck entering a Star Wars movie than achieving your goals.
I’ve had the same problem in my company. I laid out our 3-year vision. A detailed story of who we were and what we did 3 years from now.
It was beautiful. You could taste the vision in your mouth. You could feel the future smiles walking down the halls.
The champagne flowed, and the laughter was plentiful.
The problem? We weren’t transferring this vision into action. We weren’t doing what we were saying.
If I said “no” to all the things I didn’t want to do when I was 21, I’d be picking my nose and playing beer pong all day.
Instead, I said yes to going back to school and getting my masters degree (not recommended for everyone).
I said yes to an Account Manager role. I said yes to any client that would be crazy enough to listen to my half-assed sales pitch. I said yes to any and all deals and targets that crossed me.
I said yes to a Director of Purchasing promotion. I said yes to becoming the President.
And I said yes to becoming CEO.
Do you feel stuck? Always running after something you can’t grab? Always chasing the next thing?
It sounds like this…
I’ll lose weight tomorrow. I’ll have more money tomorrow. I’ll have the money to buy that ___ next year. If I dream about this, then I’m sure to get that…tomorrow.
You’re consistently living in the tomorrow dream.
I’ve been a shitty manager. I’d expect others to have telepathic capabilities to the inner workings of my head.
I’d abdicate until someone screwed up following my half-assed instructions, then, I’d be the far too familiar “helicopter manager.”
There are lies we tell ourselves as managers that make us shitty. And downright wrong.
To be an effective leader, you’ll avoid these five lies managers tell themselves.
We all argue. It’s a natural part of business. So is conflict.
In his book, the “The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team,” Patrick Lencioni words it beautifully,
“All great relationships, the ones that last over time, require productive conflict in order to grow. This is true in marriage, parenthood, friendship, and certainly business.”
The real reason you’re losing arguments is that your points are all inward. They’re all about you.
There are thousands of articles on morning routines. Push-ups. Journaling. Lemon elixir. Coffee enemas.
It’s all dog shit advice by itself.
Don’t get me wrong, morning routines are essential. I have one. But I have a routine before my morning routine.
Here’s what I do.
You can motivate yourself to work harder without doing extra mental work.
No meditation. No retreats. No weekend-long planning sessions.
We all do things that don’t inspire us. They fall outside of our critical A & B level activities.
That’s the nature of the beast.
In every job.
But if you want to succeed, you need to be motivated. You need to be inspired by your work.
