My Weekly Coach's Notes - Perspective

Think of this as the weekly mindset message before you head back out onto the field, the road, the meeting, the business, the conversation or the life you’re trying to build. A place for perspective, reflection and calm, ambitious action. Because the focus is never really about the finish line. It’s about who you become along the way.

Have you ever stopped to challenge your perspective?

I had one of those moments this week that reminded me how easy it is to miss what is right in front of us.

I have lived in Melbourne my whole life. I know the streets. I know the city. I know my way around. Or at least I thought I did.

On the weekend, my family and I decided to become tourists in our own city. We put together an itinerary, put on our walking shoes and wandered through laneways I have walked past hundreds of times before. But this time I noticed things I had never seen.

The hidden artwork. The tiny cafes. The stories behind buildings I usually rush past.

Nothing about Melbourne had changed. But the way I was experiencing it had.

And it got me thinking about how often this happens in our own lives.

We can look at the same challenge, the same goal, the same version of ourselves for so long that we stop seeing anything else.

We convince ourselves: “I’m not good at that.” “I could never do something like that.” “That’s for other people.”

But what if the problem isn’t always the situation? What if it’s the perspective we are holding?

Wayne Dyer has a quote I often remind myself of, especially at those times of challenge;

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

It usually stops me in my tracks. It makes me question the story I have created.

What am I believing right now? What thoughts are those beliefs creating? What actions are those thoughts influencing?

Because the biggest shift we can make isn’t changing everything around us. It’s creating enough space to see something differently.

I see this so often when people talk about running a marathon.

They say: “I could never do that.”

But most of the time they are imagining today’s version of themselves standing at the start line. The version who hasn’t trained. Who hasn’t built the strength. Who hasn’t collected the evidence yet.

But a marathon isn’t asking you to run 42.2km today.

It’s asking you to become the person who can.

And that’s true for so many things.

The career change. The new goal. The idea you can’t stop thinking about. The next chapter you quietly wonder about.

We look at it through the lens of who we are now. But we forget who we become in the process.

So maybe this week ask yourself:

Where am I only seeing one version of the story? What perspective am I holding?

If I believed something else was possible, what would I do next?

Natalie Moore is a coach, facilitator and mindset specialist who helps people reconnect with who they are and take meaningful action toward what matters. A marathon runner and ultra finisher, Natalie brings a deeply personal understanding of what it means to commit to something challenging and see it through. Her work extends beyond running, using the principles of mindset, self-leadership and aligned action to support people navigating growth, change and transition.