Ep. 6 - Cameron Herold On Supercharging Your Focus
Cameron Herold has taken 20 years of experience operating some of the biggest business success stories in North America and turned it into a flourishing career as both a motivational speaker and management consultant. Cameron is a business coach and mentor to several companies, and a CEO coach to large corporations globally. He is also the best-selling author of Double Double: How to Double Your Revenue and Profit in 3 Years or Less.
If you could pick any superpower, what would it be and how would you use it?
I’d pick the one my oldest son has and it’s his smile. Every time he smiles, the whole world stops.
Was there an impact moment that led you on this journey to being an entrepreneur?
I was groomed by my father to be an entrepreneur, but the real moment that showed me that being an entrepreneur was where I wanted to be was one day my dad took me to a golf course in the middle of the day. He pointed out to me all the people who were playing golf at twelve o’clock, and what company they owned. His lesson was, the people who could play golf in the middle of the day are the ones who control their free time, and the way they control their free time is by controlling the way they make their money which is by running their own company.
How has mentorship impacted you and influenced your outlook?
The mentoring for me comes in various forms. The first is focusing where I’m going, the second is having a mentor board of advisors that I could always learn from, and the third is surrounding myself with others in masterminds who are learning in the same focused area.
Entrepreneurs are wired differently than the rest of society:
Most have the following traits:
Are often filled with energy Are flooded with ideas Are driven Are restless Are unable to keep still Works on little sleep Get euphoric Get easily irritated by minor obstacles Gets burnt out periodically Acts out sexually / flirting Feels persecuted by those who do not accept their vision
Those aren’t necessarily traits that describe entrepreneurs. They are actually clinically diagnosed traits for bi-polar disorder. Most entrepreneurs have the traits of manic depression. We also have a lot of the signs of attention deficit disorder.
According to the medical community, we’re disasters. We should be medicated. The reality is we are sane. We’re wired exactly the way we’re supposed to be wired. They should not be medicating us. We should learn how to actually leverage those strengths and not call them weaknesses anymore because they’re absolutely strengths that we have.
What we need is for the entrepreneurs to rise up and say, “Stop medicating our kids. Stop saying there’s something wrong with them. Maybe they’re wired exactly as they’re supposed to be. Maybe this is how they’re supposed to think.”, and starting to show the education system they can actually function in high functional ways if they would try to accommodate for those styles.
How can entrepreneurs get supercharged focus?
Write down what your company looks like in 3 years, described in vivid detail on a 3-4 document. Then share it with all of your employees so that everyone is on the same page. Continually surround yourself with people that are stronger than you in the areas that you’re not strong in. Focus your effort around the stuff that you’re great at. Start delegating everything else except genius. Make sure...
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