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
"http://www.amazon.com/Double-Your-Revenue-Profit-Years/dp/1608320995">
Double Double: How to Double Your Revenue and Profit in 3 Years
or Less
"http://www.amazon.com/Double-Your-Revenue-Profit-Years/dp/1608320995">.
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:
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?
