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
I’m as patient as a cat in a fishbowl. As a dog in front of a bone. As patient as a toddler in a toy store.
I’m not patient.
When you look deep within yourself, you’re impatient for many reasons.
I’m impatient because of my wild personality traits. ADD, type-A, mildly OCD and introverted. Go ahead, keep thinking it.
I’m a mess, and it’s safe to say, you’re not far behind me.
Over the years of building my business, I’ve learned many lessons on how to be patient, which I’ll share with you now…
I rather DIE than eat that way they say.
Sink or swim!
To receive, you must give!
Life throws us many contradictions to test us. To test us on what’s important. On what matters.
Your coworkers are killing themselves. Digging a grave with their mouth.
Rotting away, day by day.
Between 2015 and 2016 39.8% of US adults were considered obese.
You know, the thing that causes heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer and as the CDC put it, “…that are some of the leading causes of preventable, premature death.”
Preventable damn it.
Commuting, plopping down at a desk for 8–10 hours a day. Staring at a screen and slamming down junk food, ending up in a daily funk.
Is this “well-being?”
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.
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.
