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 Business
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.
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.
I lost $500,000. It was my fault. Gone before it even started. No excuses. The reason? I missed a critical step in my core negotiating strategy. Okay, it wasn’t a step, it was half the plan.
We had won a big deal for a Skylink maintenance project. The order was received. The deal was sealed.
But I missed a fundamental step in my core negotiating strategy, and it cost me a lot of money...
Here's how it went down. I was sitting in my office with our CFO. She gave me a detailed story of overwhelmed she was. And it was no exaggeration.
I looked her straight in the eye’s and asked…are you worth $10/hr? Am I paying you too much?
