Cameron Herold quit grinding after his health and relationships fell apart. He lost weight, quit smoking and drinking, then wrote detailed "vivid visions" of who he wanted to become. He learned the technique from a sports psychologist who worked with Olympic teams.
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Six foot three and a half; 222 pounds.
182 pounds.
14 years ago (from the time of the statement).
About seven years.
Over two years.
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I really had no balance back in those days. I was all about business, I wore the brand on my back, I was obsessed with business, I had no hobbies so I had a bit of a wake up call with an ER that had come to my house one day and noticed that I was gaining weight, called me on it. I was depressed, I wasn't really having that much fun. I was in an unhappy marriage and just decided to get my together. That was well I'm six foot three and a half, I was 222 pounds and I was 182 this morning. That was 14 years ago but I've stayed around 30, 180 to 185 range for seven years. I think why I was there first. I really had no balance back in those days. I was all about business, I wore the brand on my back, I was obsessed with business, I had no hobbies, I was that classic, you know, well, work is my hobby. Well the reality, nobody wanted to talk to me about my hobby, right? I was the only one who loved it that much and I didn't have any balance. I wasn't doing anything for fun and even if my kids described, you know, what's your dad like or what's your dad do? All he did was talk about what I do to make money. That would never enter into the conversation today. So I had a bit of a wake up call with an eoer that had come to my house one day and noticed that I was gaining weight, called me on it. I was depressed, I wasn't really having that much fun. I was in an unhappy marriage, I was not doing anything health wise and just decided to get my together, quit smoking, quit eating crap. I actually quit drinking two years ago. Now I haven't had a drink in over two years but, but I'm just, just trying to live a healthier, more balanced, more fun life and now I focus on activity so I'm just more balanced around that. And then I've actually crafted a five pinch description of what I look like, act like and feel like three years in the future. I call it my vivid vision for myself. I also have one for my company and then my wife and I have one for our marriage. But I describe me as a dad, a friend, a lover, a confidant, what I do for fun, what my vacations are like, my hobbies. And I share this five page description of me with anyone who wants to read it so that they can kind of help hold me accountable to that. And it also provides that really big Guiding light for me too. When we were scaling 1-800-got jump 20 plus years ago, we actually studied quantum mechanics, quantum physics. We read the book the Secret. We brought speakers to come into the company and talk to us about that. And we started to understand the ideas around vision and around manifestation. You know the phrase conceive, believe and achieve. And when you talk in the present state, you start to feel that a lot more. So if I talk about I am healthy, I am a good dad, I'm a good friend, I have all these great hobbies, you know, I engage in all these activities, I do, you know, make healthy choices. When you, instead of saying a goal, you just feel it more. And then when others read it, they also realize that is who you are. And so they start lining up with that too. We learned this concept back in 1998. An Olympic coach who was actually at an EO event. 120 entrepreneurs in Vancouver were inviting to this lunch and only 20 of us went. And we, we got to the luncheon and this high performance sports psychologist for the Canadian Olympic team was talking about visualization and looking into a crystal ball. And we thought, wow, this is going to be the worst two hours of our lives. We're never going to get this time back. But he kept talking about how athletes used visualization and if they could see, see themselves and feel themselves performing the event, they could then act completely on instinct. And I remember when I was for my ski racing days, I raced until second year university. I raced in Canadian American Championships twice. I still have downhill courses that I can remember because I skied them so many hundreds of times in my mind. You know, I practiced the turns, I felt what it would feel like. I felt some of the bumps and inhalation. I'm sure my memory is a little bit off, but still to this day I still think I can ski some of those courses in my mind because I can feel it. Well, if you can do that with your company or with yourself as a person, if you can feel how you show up, you tend to show up in that way. If I can feel how I'm showing up with my interactions with my two boys, I tend to show up in that way. But if it's a goal, then you're separated for it. You know, you're separated from that goal a little bit because you're still focusing on the current state of wanting to get somewhere instead of anchoring into, you know, how you feel.
