Tamar Lechter Leadership coaching, llc

Remember when you were young and you had a pretty good sense of the boxes you wanted to check off? Those big milestones? The ones most of your peers also shared? Graduate high school. Check. Get a degree. Check. Get a job. Check. Get married. Check. Have babies. Check. What's next? Retirement? Death? After we have children, our milestones often shift to their accomplishments. (Weaning, starting school, graduation, marrying them off, becoming a grandparent.) As parents, of cou

I'm not the first person to tell you that making your bed will lead to positive outcomes in your life. Your mother was probably the first to do that. I'm also not the first coach to recommend it to a client. We all know the benefits. You start the day with one accomplishment achieved. You have control over one small area of your life. You devote at least one part of your day to your own needs. Those are the reasons that I started making my bed on a daily basis. However, the r

I first kept a diary in elementary school. I would write, and then proceed to spill out my feelings about my friends at school, arguments with my parents and spying on my brother and his friends. It allowed me to be an observer of my own life and share feelings that I didn't feel comfortable expressing out loud. My next journaling experience wasn't until college, when I suddenly began pouring out song lyrics and novels over heartbreaks I endured. At that point in my life, wr