Janet Macaluso outlines four leadership habits: treat mornings as finite resources for clarity, practice heart-focused breathing for focus and emotional regulation, notice when you fall into the drama triangle, and ask who benefits from your work and what your next-level potential is.
Hello, everybody and welcome. My name is Julie Mann and I show men and women how they can live healthy, happy, sustainable lives by changing their habits and using cutting edge products that help them age well. And I'm really delighted because I'm joined today by a leadership legacy coach and her name is Janet Macaluso. Hi, Janet.
Hello there. Nice to see you, Julie.
You too. So I'm just going to hand straight over to you, Janet, to do your thing.
Great. I have a framework called the regenerative leadership framework, has four components and I am going to share four habits. From each part of those we will start with clarity. The big thing I want you to remember as a habit is that we have more or less 30,000 mornings in our lifetime. Keep that as a habit. Yes. If you are 40 years old, you have 15,000 habits, 15,000 mornings. And if you're 54, you have 10,000 mornings. So as a habit, can you remember what is my clear, meaningful purpose for the mornings that I have left? That's the clear. That's number one. Number two is coherent. And that's a practice around heart focused breathing. It comes from heart math. Did you know that your heart actually sends signals, more signals to your brain than your brain sends to your heart? A lot more. And so if you want to have clear, focused thinking and decision making, focus on this acronym, breathe. And I'm going to unpack that for you. Breathe rhythmically, evenly and through the heart every day. What that would look like is if you're breathing rhythmically, it's let's say five in and five out. Other contemplative practices may say six and four or something. I'm saying whatever inhale you use the same exhale. And then it's evenly, which means it's smooth. It's not like maybe an aerobics drinking through the straw. It's even. And through the heart means we're focusing the breathing in and out through the heart takes the internal chatter away from what's going on here, gives us focus. And the habit is doing this heart focused breathing before a meeting, in the meeting, just to get clarity and recharge at any time of the day, to reduce the depleting hormones and build up your positivity and energy. That's my second one. Third habit is being aware and checking our dreaded drama. That's under the component of leadership. There's a framework called dreaded drama. It includes victim, villain and hero. Imagine. Just see if you notice yourself in any one of these. The victim voice is complaining about the boss or Maybe the mother in law, or it's your internal chatter complaining about you. Or it could be a situation like Covid or bad weather. So the habit is listening to the tone of voice. Are you on the victim as an example. The other side of this coin, on the drama triangle is the villain. So if you're a victim, you need to have a villain. The villain could be the boss, it could be that mother in law or the neighbor. It could be a situation. Or at work they have a new policy that you have to follow. Hybrid working, for example. So there's the victim, there's the villain. The final one. Check this habit out. Do you notice if you're playing the hero, sometimes we have probably some of your listeners want to swoop in, solve problems, give solutions, being aware of any of those three. But also the hero could be mind numbing substances, it could be a person, it could be shopping, it could be TV or food. Being aware and conscious, continually asking which role am I falling into? It will help us get away from dreaded drama and stay into conscious leadership. And then the final habit is making sure you're in a meeting or the way that you do your work is number one. Asking who are the beneficiaries of our work? Could be patients or customers or clients, stakeholders, community or the planet. So first spend time always asking who are the beneficiaries of my work or our work? And then asking really key, what is their next level of potential or vibrant growth? Not their current state existence, but their next level of potential. And once you've identified that, what is the role that I play in this and what capabilities do I need to be able to serve that role out? So that's a habit of continually asking my purpose there. I went through clear, coherent leadership on purpose. Back to you, Julie.
Oh my goodness, Janet, that was completely brilliant. There was so much in that. So I'm sure that if you are watching, you'll want to watch it again. And if you don't really know much about Janet, then please, please just check her out. Her links will be below. She is an absolute mine of information. Some of you may never have heard of heart math, but it is an extraordinarily powerful thing. And I think the things that you've shared today, Janet, are really going to help anyone who's listening, no matter what area of expertise they're in. So thank you for watching. If you want to find out more about me, you want to live a healthy, happy, sustainable life and age, well then my links will be below as well. So thank you all very much. And thank you, Janet.
My pleasure. Enjoyed it. Lead on.
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