2024 Easter Sunday and Intentional Living
Easter Sunday
An opportune time for me to reset and refocus as Easter Sunday signifies a new beginning, a new life.
Reset and Refocus: INTENTIONAL LIVING.
Everything will be guided by my formulated intentional life plan (2024-2032).
Every day living will be guided by my formulated intentional life plan (2024-2032).
I WILL LIVE EVERYDAY WITH INTENTION.
Every activities and tasks will be guided by my formulated intentional life plan.
Every action will be aligned with my long-term visions and goals.
“How can I live my life with more intention?”
“How can I live my life with more intention today?”
Intentional Living is Living with Intention; living guided by your long-term visions and goals in life and then designing, implementing and continually evaluating a course of actions to reach your long-term visions and goals, the overall expected impact of which is CONTENTMENT of the life you have lived. Intentional Living (IL) is accompanied by an Intentional Life Plan (ILP).
Intentional Life Plan (ILP) is a plan you make targeting a certain number of years in which you write down things you intend or want to accomplish on your graduation day (last day of your targeted year) which will make you feel you have lived your life to the fullest; you have lived a meaningful life; and you are contented and ready to die a happy death. [Assumption and reality: all of us will die one day.]
ADVOCACY: INTENTIONAL LIVING FOR MYSELF; INTENTIONAL LIVING FOR OTHERS
ROJoson Notes for 2024:
My renewal resolutions for 2024 will essentially be the same as those that I wrote in 2023. See
Happy Easter Notes – ROJoson – 2023
However, on March 30, 2024, Holy Friday, during the Adoration of the Crucifix, I made a specific pledge to Jesus that I will reinforce my Project Suffering – Joy.
Project Suffering-Joy (Easter 2023) / Easter 2024
I will accept sufferings and crosses as part of the challenges in my earthly life so as to be in union with Christ’s sufferings. Moreover, I should transform these sufferings and crosses into a wholehearted joy as my way of loving and serving God in my journey towards salvation in Heaven.
Project Suffering – Joy = suffering with joy; suffering followed by joy; suffering then joy; etc. Whichever is acceptable. Bottom line: I should transform these sufferings and crosses into a wholehearted joy as my way of loving and serving God in my journey towards salvation in Heaven.
This will be in consonance with my daily morning prayer in which I will tell God: Thank you, God, for making me wake up still alive. This is followed by a resolution to love and serve Him again in the day (In Omnibus Amare et Servire Domino, Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam); to carry my crosses again in the day; to strive to become holier and a saint in the day; and to be ready to accept the challenges and suffering in the day and transform them to joy for the glory of God.
Easter 2024 Reinforcement
Love – How – Live by the Day – Find Joy
Posted on March 12, 2024 by reyojoson
LOVE
GREATEST COMMANDMENTS on LOVE
loving the Lord our God with all our hearts, all our soul, and all our mind and loving our neighbours as ourselves
Everyday, upon waking up – LOVE – 4 LOVES – accomplish and find joy
LOVE GOD – through my obey and trust God program – must have joy in doing this
LOVE FAMILY – through my support my family program – must have joy in doing this
LOVE NEIGHBORS – through my compassionate humanitarian program – must have joy in doing this
LOVE OURSELVES / YOURSELF – through my healthy lifestyle and peace of mind program – must have joy in doing this
Oftentimes, I miss out / falter on to love myself. REMINDER, RESET, REFOCUS, RECOMMIT, RESOLVE – 24mar8 / 24mar12
ROJoson 5Rs – 2024
#roj5rs2024
See my Happy Easter Notes 2023 below: Happy Easter Notes – ROJoson – 2023
Since 2022, I have reinforced my personal Intentional Life Plan with spiritual dimensions, particularly, Project Holiness / Saint / Evangelization.
For this year, 2023, I will reinforce (reset and refocus) my Intentional Life Plan with the following write-ups and resolutions;
What’s in a day anyway – 2023 revisit with refinement
Every year thereafter, 2021, 2022 and then this year, 2023, I reviewed this question: What’s in a day anyway? I still have the same basic stance and attitude towards a day or today. However, this year, I will add more specifics and more refinements in consideration of my 2022 resolution: Project Saint / Holiness.
Each day and until I die, I will now the following daily goals and daily things to do list:
When I wake up in the morning, I will now make it 6 am starting April 9 – Easter Sunday of 2023 (until changed by circumstances – before, I think for the past 2-3 years during the COVID19 pandemic, I set my morning alarm at 630 am), I will say a morning prayer thanking God for making me wake up still alive followed by a resolution to love and serve Him again in the day (In Omnibus Amare et Servire Domino, Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam); to carry my crosses again in the day; to strive to become holier and a saint in the day; and to be ready to accept the challenges and suffering in the day and transform them to joy for the glory of God.
Thus, my goal each day will be “In Omnibus Amare et Servire Domino, Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam” (LSG / AMDG).
Then, my routinary activities with breaks of routine as indicated like patient care, family duties, etc.
My usual routinary activities are as follows:
- 0600 am – wake up
- 0600 am – morning prayers
- 0630 am – Holy Hours – Catholic daily readings and homily; Catholic Daily Reflections
- 0730 am – Walking exercises (3 km – about one hour) simultaneous with rosary, divine mercy and Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
- 0900 am – Watering of plants / gardening / garage cleaning
- 1000 am – Breakfast with wife
- 1100 am – Telemedical consultations / blogging / networking
- 0200 pm – Lunch with wife
- 0300 pm – Blogging
- 0400 pm – Siesta
- 0500 pm – Blogging
- 0630 pm – Daily mass in Church
- 0730 pm – Stretching and Flexing Exercises
- 0900 pm – Dinner with wife
- 1000 pm – Blogging
- 1100 pm – Massage for wife
- 1130 pm – Daily Examen
- 1200 pm – Bedtime
Breaks in the routine usually consist of the following:
- Medical clinic usually every Tuesday morning
- Operations as scheduled
- Driving for my wife
- Socialization / networking activities
In the Daily Examen, I should be accomplishing at least 3 major activities for the day or least majority of the things to do list for the day.
I require myself to have a stance and attitude of living each day at a time, to be contented at the end of the day, and be ready to die when I sleep or anytime and be ready to leave anything such as project and tasks not yet done (not my fault because I die already).
Though I have long-range plans (9 years up to age 83 based on my Intentional Life Plan), medium-range plans (1-5 years again based on my Intentional Living Plan), short-range plans (monthly and weekly), I have to accept the reality that I may die anytime leaving some plans undone. Have to accept this when this eventuality occurs. I know people I will leave behind will understand this.
Thus, my secondary goal after LSG / AMDG is to live one day at a time and to be contented each day on the premise that I did my best for the day guided by a well-structured plan, particularly my long- , medium- and short-range Intentional Life Plans.
An ancillary goal to the first and second goals is my Project Suffering – Joy (formulated in Easter 2023 April 9).
Project Suffering-Joy (Easter 2023)
I will accept sufferings and crosses as part of the challenges in my earthly life so as to be in union with Christ’s sufferings. Moreover, I should transform these sufferings and crosses into a wholehearted joy as my way of loving and serving God in my journey towards salvation in Heaven.
Project Suffering – Joy = suffering with joy; suffering followed by joy; suffering then joy; etc. Whichever is acceptable. Bottom line: I should transform these sufferings and crosses into a wholehearted joy as my way of loving and serving God in my journey towards salvation in Heaven.
This will be in consonance with my daily morning prayer in which I will tell God: Thank you, God, for making me wake up still alive. This is followed by a resolution to love and serve Him again in the day (In Omnibus Amare et Servire Domino, Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam); to carry my crosses again in the day; to strive to become holier and a saint in the day; and to be ready to accept the challenges and suffering in the day and transform them to joy for the glory of God.
Another ancillary goal to the first and second goal is my Project ROJoson Remaining Missions. I have decided on these remaining missions during the 2023 Lenten Meditations
and will try to accomplish more of them for the remaining years of my life on earth:
- Education for Health Development in the Philippines Program
- Compassionate Patient-centered Care Management Program / Compassionate Humanitarian Program for Patients
- Patient Empowerment Program
- Medical Education Program
- Surgical Education Program
- Hospital Quality and Safety Management System Program
- Program Saint / Holiness / Evangelization
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