CITY JOURNAL Well Being GOAL SETTING [ BY NOA GLOW ] PHOTO CREDIT: LULULEMON ATHLETICA
If you limit your goal-setting activities to a calendar milestone, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Jenna Hills—product team training manager at Lululemon
Athletica—says that “one of the benchmarks of successful goal setting is you don’t need New Year’s resolutions if you’re doing it right.” To that end Lululemon, which calls goal setting ‘a big part’ of its culture, offers loads of free resources—like a worksheet to help you visualize your personal, health and career goals one, five and 10 years from now—at
lululemon.com/educa- tion/goalsetting. It also holds workshops both online and off throughout the year (check in stores and on Lululemon’s Facebook page for upcoming events). Lululemon’s goal-setting process is based on six core con- cepts that can give sharp focus to your intentions: possibility, vision, balance, audacity, format and integrity. Hills advises first-time goal setters to: n dream big (nothing’s too “out there” to shoot for); n write it down (putting pen to paper will set your goal in motion, transforming it from “just an idea” into something tangible); and
n have fun! “Tere’s a playfulness about getting in touch with your wildest
dreams,” she explains. “When I’m leading workshops I spend 80 per cent of the time helping people rediscover their joy.” Lululemon founder Chip Wilson calls goal setting “one of the most critical things that a person can do,” and attributes his own success to setting solid objectives. “Remembering back in my 20s how muddled my mind was…I had so many dreams, but [I wondered], ‘How am I going to get to them?’ I had no idea,” he says. “I had no direc- tion; no base at all. And what I really got from setting goals was that my mind calmed down and I knew exactly where I was going. I finally knew exactly what I wanted to do.”
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