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
Did you hear that? You can barely hear the words. It sounds as though a baby bird was whispering in your ear.
You can’t make out the words because you hear your own voice. You’re thinking. Not listening.
It’s the sound of someone else talking. We have a communication epidemic.
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’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?”
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.
