Significant Career Lesson From An Executive Leadership Coach At HED Space Coaching
Regardless of experience level, "every day is a new opportunity to grow," requiring continuous learning from mistakes and self-compassion. The key is to "give yourself the grace you give someone else," move forward, and trust that even with fear, taking action will lead to future success.
Executive/Leadership, Resilience, Overcoming Challenges, Motivation, Achieving Goals
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Cheddy Matthews
Executive Leadership Coach
HED Space Coaching
NC State University 2000
UCLA EMBA 2024
Political Science, American Studies
Coaching, Speaking & Writing
Strategic Management and Executive
Disabled, Worked 20+ Hours in School, Veteran, Student Athlete, First Generation College Student
Video Highlights
1. Embrace continuous learning: Every day presents new challenges and opportunities for growth. Treat each day as your first day in a new role, regardless of experience level.
2. Learn from mistakes: Don't beat yourself up over setbacks; instead, view them as learning opportunities. Give yourself grace and forgive yourself for mistakes, just as you would forgive others.
3. Overcome self-doubt: Challenge limiting self-beliefs and take action despite fear or uncertainty. Your future self will thank you for it.
Transcript
What is one lesson that you have learned that has proven significant throughout your career?
I love this, whether you consider yourself an expert, a guru, a novice, or somewhere in between. Wherever you are on the scale of expertise, whether you feel new to life or seasoned, today is your first day at being this age, doing this thing.
You have zero experience at what's coming today and tomorrow. Every day is a new opportunity for you to grow. You look at a lot of people around you, wishing you could be like them, but they don't know I have a... they're wearing it just like you.
Maybe we do the best we can with the information, the skills, and the resources we have. It doesn't mean we make the best decisions all the time. But you have to learn from your mistakes, get better, and learn what works for you, for where you're going in the future, and for the things that you need in your life.
Give yourself grace. We all mess up. Guess what? We do some things that are really great too, and we don't beat ourselves up about that. So sometimes you do things that just don't meet your own standard and you're disappointed.
Give yourself the grace you give someone else. Forgive yourself. Keep it moving. Learn the lesson from it and go from there. You would be surprised how amazing you are.
Sometimes we stuff ourselves with all the doubt that we have, the disbelief. "I can't do this." The limiting self-belief. Do it anyway. Do it scared, do it without, do it tentatively. Just do it. Your future self will thank you for it. Stay amazing.