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
All in Life
Life gets in the way they say. There’s never enough time.
And to that, I say bullshit.
I’ve been there. When I started taking over my company, I was forced to figure out what business really was.
16 hours a day clawing and scratching.
It left me no time for the things that mattered. It left me with no time for my inputs, as Nicolas Cole would say.
I gained weight. I sat at the computer, the phone, hammering out results.
At the time, it felt needed, but that’s not the way to live life.
It’s sink or swim they say, and I tell them, they’re full of shit.
It’s the mantra for a lot of small businesses. It was the mantra for mine.
I sank. I nearly drowned. That’s the problem with this view on business and in life.
You don’t just sink. You drown. You die.
At the beginning of my career, I was thrown to the wolves.
In school, they teach you NOTHING about management.
During my MBA, no professor ever sat me down have the management pep talk. We never role played. Nothing.
All of this is stupid.
Stupid because young, future leaders are teachable.
Coachable.
The problem? People don’t take the initiative.
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.”
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.
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.
You start your day looking up at the ceiling. You complain. You complain about hurting. About being tired. About all the stuff you have to get done today. You feel like shit.
I felt like I was going to die. Like an atomic bomb bursting in my chest.
It was an early weekday morning when I got the email.
“Your Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) caught on fire in flight, and you’ll pay for the damages.”
Our client had to divert passengers, there $350,000 APU was now as useless as burnt toast, and I was expected to pay for everything.
EVERYTHING!
It’s frustrating. Your introversion. You know in order to succeed, you’ll need the support of other people.
But it takes a toll on you. You get stiff. You clam up. And you do nothing. It’s your Achilles tendon.
The weakness that will fail you in business.
It could be worse.
Imagine if you were ADD and introverted.
