In this week’s show, I rap about 7-11 and Slurpees, and we talk farmers markets, bone broth and goal setting. Check out the show notes below, and please share some of your personal or professional or health goals with us in the comments!
Show Notes:
More about benefits of bone broth plus a great recipe here
The Grant Park Farmers Market is open!
Visit on Sundays for awesome coffee & donuts, locally grown/raised fresh meat and vegetables, baked goods and plants. I bought some kielbasa from Spotted Trotter that was SO GOOD, as well as a bunch of locally grown rainbow chard (sorry I did not get the farm’s name).
Atlanta Community Farmers Market info here.
Your Dekalb Farmers Market
Open 9a to 9p seven days a week, this place has a huge international flair, very affordable dried herbs and spices, a huge variety of produce, plus fresh seafood and meet. I bought some delicious chocolate milk from pastured cows, plus some grassfed ground beef and stew bones.
I also got three different varieties of sweet potatoes (the purple ones are SO GOOD), starfruit and blood oranges. YUM!
More info here.
Lululemon’s Vision & Goals tools
Roll your eyes at the prices they charge for yoga pants if you want. But to me, lululemon athletica (particularly their ATL West Midtown location on Howell Mill) has been an amazing resource for my growth professionally and personally. They do an amazing job of investing in the local communities and supporting personal trainers, coaches and studio owners.
I am a lululemon Ambassador alumni, and I also worked in the Howell Mill store as an educator in 2016. They take all of their ambassadors and employees through a Vision & Goals exercise that I have found very valuable in my five years of partnership with them.
The idea is that you go through several visualization exercises to determine what your life looks like in 10 years. How old are you? Where do you live? What is your day like?
How do you know what you want life to be like in one, five or ten years if you’ve never envisioned it?
So you do some visualization exercises, and then you break the grand vision into several 10-year, 5-year and 1-year goals.
The idea is that your 1-year goals are laying the foundation toward achieving those bigger 5- and 10-year goals.
Over the last five years, I’ve written 3-4 different versions of my Vision & Goals, and it’s always a fun experience. These goals aren’t written in stone. For instance, some of the 1- and 5-year goals I wrote last year, already imploded when my new business partnership at EAV Barbell Club fell apart. My longer-term goals that included the barbell club suddenly changed.
So I had to rewrite some goals. Life happens. Even if all of my goals don’t become reality, I still accomplish more from setting them in the first place than if I’d never practiced the goal setting and visualization exercises.
Want to try goal setting? Here are some resources to get you started:
SMART goals should be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timebound.
Write your goals in the present tense, as if it is already reality.
Instead of: I try to lose weight before my birthday.
Try: I weigh 200 pounds on Sunday, June 5th.
View all of the lululemon Vision & Goals worksheets here.
The Lululemon Goals Worksheet
Also, here are some tips from Brian Tracy & other goal-setting experts on how to set goals here.
