A Social Contract happens when a person uses social media to publicly declare his goals. Basically you hold yourself accountable to your entire network on what you want to happen for your life over a period of time. I know blogger memes are passe already but that’s because I believe that most of the memes going around don’t add value and there’s just no point in doing them. This activity is more than just a meme, it’s a goal-setting experience that hopefully will help steer our life towards a better direction in the next few months and years. Just like what a lot of speakers say “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” With that said, here are the mechanics of the meme and my own social contract.
Social Contract Mechanics
1. Establish short term (next 2 years) and long term goals (10 years) for your life quadrant.
2. The life quadrant is based on 4 major pillars: health, spirituality, career, and relationships.
3. Be as specific as possible with your goals. Put numbers.
4. Tag at least 5 bloggers who you want to be your accountability buddies and ask them to do the same as well.
DENNIS SY’S SOCIAL CONTRACT
LIFE QUADRANT 1: HEALTH
Short Term Goals:
- Gym 4x a week.
- No more softdrinks and white rice starting today.
- Lose 15 pounds by December 2009
Long Term Goals:
- Make 7 pillars of health my lifestyle.
- Reach my goal of 170 llbs by Dec 2010.
LIFE QUADRANT 2: SPIRITUALITY
Short Term Goals:
- Lengthen my prayer time
- Read more theological books to deepen my knowledge of God
- Improve on leading my family spiritually.
- Improve on leading the church
Long Term Goals
- Disciple 30 men who would make disciples
- Finish the Bible in 6 months.
LIFE QUADRANT 3: CAREER/FINANCE
Short Term Goals:
- Finish the family’s emergency fund by March 2010.
- Spread the Biblical Laws of Prosperity
- Promote Chinkee and Randell Tiongson’s Finance Seminar
- Continue blogging to help pastors plant a church and run it.
Long Term Goals:
- Write a book on church planting
- Help plant a new church by 2011.
LIFE QUADRANT 4: RELATIONSHIPS
Short Term Goals:
- Improve my networking skills.
- Build better relationship with my parents and siblings.
- Improve as a dad and husband
Long Term Goals:
- Baby Boy by 2011.
- Vacation outside RP with family every year.
The people I want to hold myself accountable to are the following:
- Paolo Punzalan
- Carlo Ople
- Larry Uy
- Thammie Sy
- Chinkee Tan
- Thammie Sy
- Jayson Lo
- Bojo Bonifacio