A routine with a doable and realistic schedule set the tone of our day. The successful productivity rate depends largely on our clarity and focus of our tasks.

Setting an intention for our day is when we make a pact or agreement with our minds that “I am holding myself accountable for today’s achievement.”

I used to be a runner, I ran everyday, I love the challenge of breaking my own record. Running kept me on track in every sense of the word. But something changed six months after I gave birth to my third child at the age of 42, I stopped training, I stopped running.

It is a reasonable but of the unsubstantiated claim that people, and most especially children, are somehow the beneficiaries of multiple positives associated with being bilingual. We all nod sagely at the premise, on the basis that it must be self-evident that there is nothing but upside associated with the skill of effortlessly switching between two languages.

The doorbell rang at 9:30 this morning. A young man in his mid-twenty carrying two brown boxes. “Here’s your order, Madam,” he kept his distance. I said thank you before he rushed down the hallway. I knew from the look of his sweating face behind the mask that it is going be another long day ahead of him….

As I was cleaning up my son’s room, I found his Chinese composition book on the shelf which he had kept even after he had left his old school which he had attended for 4 years. Reading one of his compositions below, it brought back so much fond memories of his times...