I'm the CEO of Skylink Group, founder of JetFuel Coffee Co. and a daily practitioner of escaping A ROTTEN life.
This website is my journey. My wins, my failures and the key lessons that keep me going.
Here we will grow our mind and body to help us be great in business and in life.
What are you waiting for? Join me in "A CEOs Journey To Escaping A Rotten Life: Growing The Mind and Body To Be Great In Business and In Life."
-Nate Anglin
The Taj Mahal was built in less than 8-hours. Amazon became the worlds most valuable brand in less than 12.
We hear “overnight” success and think it’s bestowed on someone. Like a blessing from the success Gods. As if it appears from thin air, like a success genie in a bottle.
None of these marvels of mastery happened overnight.
I spend $1,000,000 a year with a vendor, and they flush my money down their corporate toilet.
We all get sucked into the money pit vortex. Chasing vanity, lagging metrics like it’s the cure to the business failure plague.
Sure they’re important goals, but they add no direct value to a client.
Businesses are made up of tens, hundreds, thousands of humans, working together to achieve a goal.
A mission.
Yet, most goals are a financial metric, a sale, profit, volume, whatever.
My mom’s front tooth feel out before the wedding. She looked like a country bumpkin in a scene from the thriller, attack in the trailer park.
Or as my sister explained it, a redneck vampire.
She was horrified. Upset. She didn’t want to go. She was afraid of what others would think of her.
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.
The first is executing the vision, mission, values, and strategy of a company playbook.
The second is leading, coaching and managing a team.
I was reading Rand Fishkin’s book, “Lost and Founder” and he made an excellent point.
Not all individual contributors (ICs) are cut out to manage, and that’s okay. They still need a career path!
Management is unique. You have to have people skills!
Managers don’t always need experience in a given role. What they need is a skill to learn, coach, and manage.
If you’ve found yourself in a management seat, this is for you.
