This Perspective is for you if there are times when everything can feel heavy - too many thoughts, too many things to do.   Too many things sitting in the background of your mind. And underneath that, there is often a quiet belief, a belief that shapes how you see yourself, how you see your life, and what you think is possible. So for a moment, gently bring that belief into your awareness.

You don't need to analyse it, just notice it. You might even name it silently to yourself. And as you do, notice how it feels to carry it, because some beliefs. Don't just sit in the mind. They sit in the body and in the shoulders, or in the chest, and even in the gut, and it's part of you as you move through your day.

Maree Burgess has written three leadership books, is the creator of the Perspectives - with Maree Burgess Podcast. She is an exceptional leadership trainer, facilitator, and executive coach. She hosts the Level Up Community for a group of fabulous women leaders.

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- existing leaders and their teams who want to work better together

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Most people don't actually fear difficult conversations. They fear the moment before them, the anticipation, the questions, the mind starts asking, like, what if they react badly? What if I say something wrong? What if the relationship changes?

So the mind starts preparing. Replaying possible outcomes, editing sentences, rehearsing, what might happen. And the more the mind rehearses, the bigger the conversation can begin to feel until something simple.

Maree Burgess has written three leadership books, is the creator of the Perspectives - with Maree Burgess Podcast. She is an exceptional leadership trainer, facilitator, and executive coach. She hosts the Level Up Community for a group of fabulous women leaders.

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- existing leaders and their teams who want to work better together

- leaders of leaders who wish to learn new skills to outperform previous results

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Many people carry a quiet concern, a small voice that says, what if they don't like me? What if that comment sounded wrong? What if that decision disappointed someone? What if speaking honestly changes the way people see me? And so the mind begins adjusting, softening opinions, editing thoughts, choosing words carefully in the hope of staying acceptable, and on the surface. Let's change that perspective.

Maree Burgess has written three leadership books, is the creator of the Perspectives - with Maree Burgess Podcast. She is an exceptional leadership trainer, facilitator, and executive coach. She hosts the Level Up Community for a group of fabulous women leaders.

Her clients are

- new leaders stepping up into a more senior role

- existing leaders and their teams who want to work better together

- leaders of leaders who wish to learn new skills to outperform previous results

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This is simply a moment to shift your perspective, and this is about letting go of that need to prove. There is nothing to achieve. Nothing to perform, nothing to prove. You've been working really hard for a long time. There may be a feeling that you are not enough, that you need to do more. And yet I know that you are awesome. You are enough, you are clever, you are caring. You are very good at what you do.

Maree Burgess has written three leadership books, is the creator of the Perspectives - with Maree Burgess Podcast. She is an exceptional leadership trainer, facilitator, and executive coach. She hosts the Level Up Community for a group of fabulous women leaders.

Her clients are

- new leaders stepping up into a more senior role

- existing leaders and their teams who want to work better together

- leaders of leaders who wish to learn new skills to outperform previous results

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Instead of searching for one perfect direction, consider something different. What if your direction is not a single decision? But a combination of what matters to you, the things that bring you alive, the things that feel meaningful, the things that allow you to contribute in a way that feels real. You want to feel grounded, connected, stretched, and to make a difference.

Maree Burgess has written three leadership books, is the creator of the Perspectives - with Maree Burgess Podcast. She is an exceptional leadership trainer, facilitator, and executive coach. She hosts the Level Up Community for a group of fabulous women leaders.

Her clients are

- new leaders stepping up into a more senior role

- existing leaders and their teams who want to work better together

- leaders of leaders who wish to learn new skills to outperform previous results

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The truth is your audience isn't sitting there asking, will this speaker be perfect? They're wondering, will this be real? And you already know how to do that, how to be that you've lived the stories, you've done the work, you care about what you're saying. So instead of asking, am I good enough to be up here?

You might ask. What becomes possible for them, because you can step fully into that version of you, the one who is calm, clear, grounded, connected, not performing, not proving. 

Maree Burgess has written three leadership books, is the creator of the Perspectives - with Maree Burgess Podcast. She is an exceptional leadership trainer, facilitator, and executive coach. She hosts the Level Up Community for a group of fabulous women leaders.

Her clients are

- new leaders stepping up into a more senior role

- existing leaders and their teams who want to work better together

- leaders of leaders who wish to learn new skills to outperform previous results

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Many women hear, as they move through life, a story that quietly suggests that power belongs to youth, that confidence belongs to someone younger, or that it belongs to men, and that the most important chapters are somehow behind you.

But when you stop and really think about that story, it begins to fall apart because midlife is not about the shrinking of power. It is an accumulation of years of experience and learning what works and what doesn't. Years of understanding people's situations, yourself and those years create a remarkable perspective.

Maree Burgess has written three leadership books, is the creator of the Perspectives - with Maree Burgess Podcast. She is an exceptional leadership trainer, facilitator, and executive coach. She hosts the Level Up Community for a group of fabulous women leaders.

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- new leaders stepping up into a more senior role

- existing leaders and their teams who want to work better together

- leaders of leaders who wish to learn new skills to outperform previous results

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Most people think procrastination is about laziness. About not having enough discipline. About needing to push harder. But that explanation

is rarely the truth. Listen to this Perspective about how you can shift your own think about your procrastination habits.

Maree Burgess has written three leadership books, is the creator of the Perspectives - with Maree Burgess Podcast. She is an exceptional leadership trainer, facilitator, and executive coach. She hosts the Level Up Community for a group of fabulous women leaders.

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- new leaders stepping up into a more senior role

- existing leaders and their teams who want to work better together

- leaders of leaders who wish to learn new skills to outperform previous results

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There's a quiet pressure that many people carry. A sense that today they need to prove something. Prove that they're capable, prove they're smart enough, prove they belong where they are. But you don't.

Listen to this Perspective, and let go of that need you may have to prove yourself.

Maree Burgess has written three leadership books, is the creator of the Perspectives - with Maree Burgess Podcast. She is an exceptional leadership trainer, facilitator, and executive coach. She hosts the Level Up Community for a group of fabulous women leaders.

Her clients are

- new leaders stepping up into a more senior role

- existing leaders and their teams who want to work better together

- leaders of leaders who wish to learn new skills to outperform previous results

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Step into the future you, the awesome you. This is to own the true unlimited version of you. You are exceptional, and your power and energy can light up a whole city when you own that.

Maree Burgess has written three leadership books, is the creator of the Perspectives - with Maree Burgess Podcast. She is an exceptional leadership trainer, facilitator, and executive coach. She hosts the Level Up Community for a group of fabulous women leaders.

Her clients are

- new leaders stepping up into a more senior role

- existing leaders and their teams who want to work better together

- leaders of leaders who wish to learn new skills to outperform previous results

www.mareeburgess.com

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