August 8 2008, 8-8-08, will it be a significant day for most of you? 8/8/08 has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?

But what else is happening today?

Today is Sara‘s wedding date.

Today , the 29th Summer Olympics will take off in Beijing at 08:08:08 p.m.

Today is just an ordinary day for most of us.

Like any other day one of our biggest questions is “What’s going to happen?”. Such questions can revolved around our relationships, our career and our life. It’s easy to tangle ourselves up in worrisome thoughts.

Worrying about what is going to happen blocks us from functioning well today. It blocks us from mastering today’s lessons.

Staying in the present, doing our best and participating fully today are all I need to do to assure myself that what’s going to happen tomorrow will be for the best. I don’t have to worry about what’s going to happen because that is just a negative contribution to my future. Living in the here and now is the best thing we can do, not just for today but for tomorrow.

Things will work out, if I let them. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future.

About Noemi Lardizabal-Dado

Noemi, Editor of Blog Watch and features editor of Philippine Online Chronicles is a 55 year old mother to three kids and is married to Atty. Luis H. Dado. She loves being a full time mother and homemaker after retiring as a Researcher/Consultant from the UP Institute for Small Scale Industries in 1987. Now that her children are all college graduates, she devotes her time to grief support, blogging, new media events and using her blogs to promote online advocacies. Her personal blog is at aboutmyrecovery.com, which garnered numerous awards such as Best Website, Blog Category during the 9th and 10th Philippine Web Awards. Her blog also won in the Blog- Personal Category of the DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards 2007 and Globelines Broadband Family Blog Award (in honor of family-oriented blogging) 2007 Philippine Blog Award. Globe also recognized her as Digital Elder in the 2009 Philippine Blog Award.

  • debbie

    The numbers just give it a nice ring to it. but it’s just another day. I agree staying in the present works for a lot of us especially anxious people.

  • http://aboutmyrecovery.com Noemi

    I need to be reminded that to worry too much for the future and just do what I can today.

  • http://fengguillermobrum.com feng

    it’s in the news that today daw is malas. hope we all combat whatever malas it brings by bringing up a bright and positive attitude. :)

    happy 888!

    fengs last blog post..EXCITED WITH THE TWO LONG WEEKENDS OF AUGUST

  • http://yatotchronicles.blogspot.com yatot

    and happening later tonight is the mega concert of sharon cuneta! hahahhha… not a die-hard fan though… hahahha… just dropping by! :P

    yatots last blog post..Writing Poetries

  • http://aboutmyrecovery.com Noemi

    @feng- I heard it too. Strange how “The Asian bridal website however predicted that Aug. 8 which falls during the Hungry Ghost Festival of the Chinese lunar calendar is not an ideal date for marriage as hungry ghosts might spoil the wedding.”

    http://www.newsflash.org/2004/02/ht/ht007970.htm

    @yatot- so many events tonight.

  • http://myepinoy.wordpress.com/ myepinoy

    “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” The last part of Steve Jobs’ Commencement address delivered on June 12, 2005 to the students of Stanford.

    myepinoys last blog post..Love was always love, anytime and anyplace

  • http://www.homeworked.blogspot.com raqgold

    i know of someone who had a caesarian just because they wanted the baby to have this ‘date’ of birth! how crazy is that? and that baby is supposed to be born 3 weeks from that day! i dont know…

    raqgolds last blog post..We’re off for a week

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