It’s a new day and a new decade. It is an exciting time to continue what we have been working on and to begin something that we have planned for.
Planning is a start. What we do after planning needs to be an action-filled journey. It is where the work becomes real. And, it is where the work turns into a daily project. It is where we see it grow.
Ten years ago, I just started writing songs in Chinese for young children. I had no plan to release a Chinese language learning album for parents who are new to the Chinese language. I couldn’t have imaged starting blogging and sharing my teaching online to families and educators or presenting at the GWATFL conference, Greater Washington Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages. I didn’t have a ten-year plan to make those things happen. They happened from one tune, one story, and one conversation at a time.
At that time, I also didn’t know if my kids would be able to speak and read Chinese ten years later. What I knew was I had a gift for my kids and I wanted to give it to them. What happened with this gift was daily work. It was a big gift in many pieces and many forms. I started very small and I did it one day at a time.
A gift is a gift no matter how small it is. Here’s to today, a new day to do the daily work. It is a gift for your child and you.
The best time to do something significant is between yesterday and tomorrow. -Zig Ziglar
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A Gift