Limitless with Nathan Jovanelly

Jerry Maguire had the famous line, “You complete me.” It turns out this notion of a “soulmate” originated from ancient Greek mythology. Plato surmised that there used to be a “super race” of androgynous humans that were comprised of both male and female in one person. These humans originally had four arms, four legs, and two heads. They were extremely smart and physically strong. Fearing their gro...

One of the cultural tenants at Enerflo is “different by design”, and there is no better advice for an entrepreneur.   Going with the crowd will get you no further than the crowd, but being different makes you stand alone.  It makes you unforgettable. It is uncomfortable forging your own path, being different.  That is why most people don’t do it. To innovate you must be willing to ask questions, c...

These days I often get the question, “Why would you leave a stable, high-paying job to work for yourself at a scrappy start-up?”     When I made the decision, I knew that not everyone would agree with it. I knew that not everyone would see it, and that is ok. I have always said, “I see it because I believe it”. In this case I see the path forward, and I believe Enerflo is and will be the dominant...

Last week I ran the Houston half marathon with my brother. I never considered myself to be a runner, but in 2020 I ran the half marathon with the explicit goal of finishing fast enough to get in the first starting corral, which is reserved for “elite” runners, for the following year. In 2020 I reached my goal by a mere two seconds, yet I was disappointed. I was disappointed even though I reached m...

I believe that giving anything less than your best is a waste of time. I also believe that you need to know where you add value and focus in that area. When I started at IGS Solar we had the goal of taking as much friction out of the solar process between sales, installation and the customer as possible. Simply put, we wanted to be the easiest leasing partner for solar in existence. As a result, w...

January 3, 2022 Did you know that 80% of people give up on their New Year's resolution by the second week of February?  In fact, research conducted by Strava using 800 million user-logged activities predicts that the day most people are likely to give up is January 19 (aka “Quitter’s Day”). The problem is that most people set goals that are too vague like, “I want to be happier”. What does th...

December 27, 2021 What are you determined to accomplish? Yesterday my family and I went to a place called Refreshing Mountain. This is a place in eastern Pennsylvania where you can zip line through Christmas lights, and attempt an obstacle course that is ~50 feet in the air. When I first thought about this post, I thought about how we can overcome our fears through action. Or maybe, how we should...

December 20, 2021 What did you learn about yourself last week? For all the kids coming back from their first semester at college, this message is especially for you.   Often you wonder why your parents are so hard on you when you don’t think they should be, and sometimes the opposite is true where you are too hard on yourself when you really shouldn’t be. How do we make sense of this?! Here is a q...

December 13, 2021 When is the last time you were uncomfortable? As humans we seek comfort. I remember being at kid and always wanting to eat the same thing. Specifically, I always got the hamburger with ketchup. I am sure that any parent can relate that kids don’t like to try new things, which seems to be the explanation for why so many kids smother everything in ketchup. It’s familiar. It’s safe....

January 10, 2022 The hardest part of living your dream is getting started. Often we like to think of all the things that can go wrong, and not about what can, and will, go right. This keeps us in our box, our comfort zone. What if we thought about our dream differently? Not as something in the distance that seems out of reach, but rather, as a wondrous journey of excitement and gratitude. A journe...