Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

Want People to Rally Behind You? Share Your Vivid Vision #vividvision

24 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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A short spoken segment by Cameron Herold arguing that publicly sharing a "vivid vision" (for a company, marriage, or personal life) helps others understand what you want to create and prompts them to help make parts of it happen. He uses personal anecdotes—e.g., a friend reading his vivid vision and suggesting an outing aligned with stated preferences—to show how specificity changes how people engage with you.

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When I share my vivid vision for my company or for myself, or even the one that my wife and I have written for our marriage, when we share that with more people, when we share it online, when we share it on our websites, when we share it from speaking event stages, the more people that can see what we're trying to make happen, the more they end up trying to help us make one or two of those sentences come true. You know, I had a friend recently and they said to me, hey, I was reading your vivid vision. It says you like to golf and go hiking. So instead of going to get together for dinner, do you want to go golf together? Like, yes, because so often we default to, hey, do you want to get together for a coffee? Not really, no. Like I, I would rather go for a walk or go for a hike or go spend time with you exploring the city. Especially when I nomad traveling the world. Like, I'd actually rather go and let's go for a one hour walk through the city together. That would be cooler than just sitting in a coffee shop.