Mistakes Can Become Miracles

SUMMARY

We've all heard that one man's trash is another man's treasure. Well, in this week's episode, I want to show you that you can take your mistakes and you can turn them into miracles as a coach.

Hi, this is Grant Herbert, Emotional Intelligence Speaker and Trainer of the Year and Master Coach Trainer, and today I want to continue our conversation around becoming a coach by speaking about looking at your mistakes and what you can do to capture them and then put them in a frame where they can be taught to others so that we help them along the way and get those miracles as we coach them.

The first element of this process is to reconcile.

The second thing to do, now that we've got those down, is to recognise what learnings, what feedback came from those mistakes.

And the third thing that we want to do is learn to reframe.

Well, that's it from me for another week. Join me again next week as we continue this conversation around becoming a coach by taking a look at why the time has never been better than right now for you to take that step and become a coach. I'll see you then.

FULL TRANSCRIPT

We've all heard that one man's trash is another man's treasure. Well, in this week's episode, I want to show you that you can take your mistakes and you can turn them into miracles as a coach.

Hi, this is Grant Herbert, Emotional Intelligence Speaker and Trainer of the Year and Master Coach Trainer, and today I want to continue our conversation around all things becoming a coach by speaking about looking at your mistakes in a different way so that you can then encourage others with the lessons that you've learned and they become miracles for them.

I know that I've made many mistakes in my life and I continue to make mistakes, and I'll tell you why: If you pinch me, it hurts. I'm a human being just like you. So, as we've already talked about, being perfect is never going to be the goal. It's not about just because you're becoming a coach that all of a sudden you need to have everything altogether, because that's never going to happen. Life is a continual journey of experience where sometimes things go the way we want them to go and other times they don't.

The first element of this process is to reconcile. Now, I know, just like me, you've probably got many mistakes that keep popping up, that you keep remembering without any problem. So when we reconcile these mistakes, what we need to do is shift from the emotional brain to using our logical brain. We need to make sure that it's the big version of us stepping up to do this reconciliation. So that's the first step — to reconcile from our logical brain.

The second thing to do, now that we've got those down, is to recognise what learnings, what feedback came from those mistakes. When we grab those things, we're going to be able to look at situations where, in the people that we're coaching, we could then offer from our experience with their permission some of the things that we've gone through.

And the third thing that we want to do is learn to reframe. By taking the frame that we had — the old tattered and broken one — and putting a new frame around it, we turn a mistake into a miracle. What we've done now is we've taken that mistake and we've put a new frame around it. We can now present that mistake, not just to others, but to ourselves as a miracle.

Yes, one man's trash is another man's treasure and your mistakes can be someone else's miracle.

Well, that's it from me for another week. Join me again next week as we continue this conversation around becoming a coach by taking a look at why the time has never been better than right now for you to take that step and become a coach. I'll see you then.