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.
CARLO OPLE’S SOCIAL CONTRACT
LIFE QUADRANT 1: HEALTH
Short Term Goals:
1. Continue going to the gym and diet.
2. Lose 40 lbs. by December 2009.
3. Lose an additional 80 lbs. by December 2010.
4. Get back into playing competitive Judo
Long Term Goals:
1. Stop eating Pork.
2. Stop drinking sodas.
3. Hit my ideal weight by 2011.
4. Go Ballroom dancing with Mich regularly (hahaha)
LIFE QUADRANT 2: SPIRITUALITY
Short Term Goals:
1. Start reading the bible everyday.
2. Disciple at least 2-3 friends.
3. Complete Training for Victory.
4. Start my own Small Group before the year ends.
5. Bless someone this year.
Long Term Goals:
1. Share my testimony with the church.
2. Join the music ministry in church. Will have to re-learn playing the guitar, haha.
3. Train someone in my small group to make his own small group.
4. Bless people on a yearly basis.
LIFE QUADRANT 3: CAREER
Short Term Goals:
1. Invest in the stock market.
2. Put up a buffer of 3 months salary for emergencies.
3. Do a good job at Friendster.
4. Incorporate my Internet Marketing consultancy gig and scale up operations.
Long Term Goals:
1. Finish paying my insurance.
2. Buy a 2 bedroom condo unit somewhere in San Juan. I love this city!
3. Get more clients for the Internet Marketing consultancy company.
4. Build 3 different passive income streams. Real estate, food, and stocks?
5. Write a book on internet marketing and maybe on career building.
6. Give talks on internet marketing and career building.
LIFE QUADRANT 4: RELATIONSHIPS
Short Term Goals:
1. *secret*
2. Reach out to my family.
3. Closure to some problems with old high school buddies.
4. Build stronger relationships with friends from church.
5. Organize a YFC reunion! Haha!
Long Term Goals:
1. *secret*
2. Build even stronger relationships with friends from church.
The people I want to hold myself accountable to are the following:
Dennis Sy
Randell Tiongson
Noemi Dado
Sonnie Santos
Jayvee Fernandez
Rochelle Chua
Azrael
Mon Macutay
And that’s that! Hope the people I linked participate, haha! I’ll make a Facebook version for this as well.
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Napaka Internet Marketer naman ng definition mo ng social contract! Hahaha.
ang bigat!
Hello Mr. Carlo Ople! My name is Rolly and I just happen to got to your personal website because I got interested in the man behind the “proposal.” I think that’s your number one short-term goal in the quadrant relationship and I’m pretty sure I know the number one long-term goal..hehe.
Anyways, this one’s a good post and I might make my own but with some twists here and there. Good luck and God Bless. =)
No new social contract for 2010? You’ve done a good job bro on 2009. God has been good to you =)