How To Create A Vivid Vision For Your Career And Life with Cameron Herold
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Mindvalley
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Biggest Thing We’re Missing to Create True Alignment in Our Lives
In this strategic episode, Cameron Herold shares some of the secrets of how he built two $100 million companies by the age of 35. Considered one of the most successful businessmen of the last decade, he reveals the key to his success: Vivid Vision. It’s the 3D world we can literally step into by creating a roadmap to keep our whole team on track. Entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners - this is not one you’ll want to miss!
“If everyone can see what I see, they’ll help me make it come true.
But if nobody can see, they’re guessing.”
Vivid Vision is a simple yet powerful process that most aspiring business owners are missing, yet it results speak for themselves. Tune in as Vishen and the man heralded as “the best speaker [who] hits grand slams” discuss the top business strategies for success.
In this episode you'll discover:
- The 5 F’s and how this shapes our Vivid Vision
- Why we need to Create Visions 3 Years Forward, and the danger of having them for 5 or 10 years
- Cameron’s Personal BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal)
- The 4 Things that Successful Business Owners can Take Care Of to Eliminate the Need for a Customer Service Department
- The Step by Step process to create a Vivid Vision
- How a VV differs from OKRs
- Why successful business people often only talk in the future
- The difference between a Mission Statement, Vision Statement, Core Purpose, and Vivid Vision, and why the first three will never be enough to truly align a company
- The #1 Reason Why so many Companies Fail
- Why our grandmothers are the smartest people in the business world
Don’t waste another day - listen to this episode to learn the steps to create true alignment in your business and your life.
Resources and Mentions:
- Verne Harnish - Rockefeller Habit
- Jino Richman - Traction
- Jim Collins - Good to Great
- John Doerr - Measure What Matters
- Ben Horowitz - The Hard Thing about Hard Things
- Elon Musk
- Bill Gates
Bonus:
- Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I am Vichin Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation. |
| 0:05.2 | You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and |
| 0:09.2 | thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit, and work. |
| 0:17.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to the Mind Valley Podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | So this is an episode I'm so looking forward to and I can't wait to share this man's profound wisdom with you because I just finish his book barely a few days ago and the book was so good it's called Vivid Vision and the man I have on |
| 0:35.6 | the show tonight is Cameron Harold. Vivid Vision was such a good book that |
| 0:40.0 | immediately before even putting it down I had to start getting on Google Docs and |
| 0:45.1 | doing the exercise Cameron prescribed see what I learned from the vision is that |
| 0:49.6 | so many of us when we are working in a company or leading a company we have a vision for |
| 0:54.5 | where we want to take that company as a CEO I know that for 15 years I've had |
| 1:00.0 | visions of where I wanted to go but it never dawned on me that I should probably set some time aside |
| 1:06.6 | create a four-page Google document painting my vision in rich detail three years forward so that I can share this with my employees. |
| 1:15.0 | Instead, no, I bypass that process. I work with OKR's, I work with the Rockefeller habits, |
| 1:22.0 | and I just assume that the people I was |
| 1:23.6 | leading knew what the hell I was thinking about and so vivid vision was a real eye |
| 1:27.4 | open for me I mean before putting down this book I remember but at time I got to like |
| 1:30.8 | chapter three I was really, why didn't someone sit me down 10 years ago and explain this concept to me? |
| 1:38.0 | So anyway, before we begin, let me read you the bio for Cameron Harold because this man has influenced my life in so many ways through his book. |
| 1:46.0 | So Cameron was an entrepreneur from day one at age 21, 14 employees by 35, he had built his first 200 million dollar companies. |
| 1:55.0 | By the age of 42, Cameron engineered 1-800 |
| 1:59.5 | got junk spectacular growth from 2 million to 106 million. He took the company from 14 to 3,100 employees. |
| 2:08.4 | And Rich Carlgaard of Forbes magazine said Cameron Harran is the best speaker I've ever heard. He hits |
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