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 tagged Life Lessons
He woke up moody. Never happy. A miserable chump that liked being a grump.
Do you know someone like this? Be honest. Is it you?
Maybe you’re not grumpy, maybe you’re sad, a perpetual crier, liar or any unfriendly emotion/habit. We all go through these emotions at some point in our lives.
We all experience pain, failure and sadness. But, these emotions aren’t attractive.
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.
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.
If an alien entered your world, mentally whipped you and started demanding foreign prompts, how would you feel?
Exactly!
Out of this world.
As someone leading a team, you’re dealing with humans.
We often forget this. Don’t act like you haven’t!
I was recently at a business conference, and during lunch, I received a few questions regarding hiring and motivation.
I’ve made many of these mistakes which I’ll share with you now.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
