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		<title>set goals and take a leap!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[why we love this]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chamonix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dream job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edinburgh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glasgow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goal setting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manifesto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[project managment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skype]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Conrad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traveling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in October 2006, I joined lululemon athletica’s People Resources team and set a course of events into action that I never could have imagined. Having grown up as a competitive dancer I was mildly obsessed with lululemon and the values it represented (I may have had the manifesto poster on my bedroom wall) so [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back in October 2006, I joined lululemon athletica’s People Resources team and set a course of events into action that I never could have imagined. Having grown up as a competitive dancer I was mildly obsessed with lululemon and the values it represented (I may have had the <a href="http://www.lululemon.com/about/culture">manifesto poster</a> on my bedroom wall) so I felt extremely fortunate to find a new home for myself within the lululemon team.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/a2500.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6836" style="border: 0px;" title="ashley dancing" src="http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/a2500.jpg" alt="dancing with ashley from lululemon" width="500" height="333" /></a><br />
<em>A passion for dancing up a storm.</em></p>
<p>What came next was meeting some of the most inspiring and outstanding people I’ll probably ever come across in this lifetime. Oh, we hired hundreds of new, fabulous lululemon faces, and we launched exciting attraction programs too... the work was about as challenging, fast paced, and action packed as anyone could hope for! But an itching desire to strike out, take risks and have a grand adventure always slumbered within me, and I knew deep in my heart of hearts that there was something more, waiting for me, somewhere across the Atlantic.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/a8500.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6835" style="border: 0px;" title="ashley and the team" src="http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/a8500.jpg" alt="dream jobs at lululemon" width="500" height="333" /></a><br />
<em>The people resource team.</em></p>
<p>As a hopeless romantic I had spent my entire life wishing, dreaming and hoping that someday I’d live in Europe. However, I never really took any steps to make these visions a reality. It wasn’t until I learned and understood the skills of <a href="http://www.lululemon.com/education/goalsetting">goal setting</a>, received some incredible coaching and encouragement from Susanne Conrad, and created a vision board with my People Resources team, that it finally sunk in that I needed to DO IT NOW.</p>
<p>So I did.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/a6500.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6837" style="border: 0px;" title="goals" src="http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/a6500.jpg" alt="personal goal example" width="500" height="333" /></a><br />
<em>Ashley achieving her goal to live in Europe 2 years earlier!</em></p>
<p>Fast forward to present day, March 2010, and I have leapt over the pond and landed myself smack dab in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. By some force of fate, luck or magic, I have managed to stay a part of the lululemon recruitment team and continue to work remotely; providing creative project management for our key 2010 initiatives. Technology really is an incredible thing, when someone can log in to say hello to their favourite coworkers each morning via Skype, and at the same time, live out their wildest traveling dreams.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/a5500.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6838" style="border: 0px;" title="ashley in Scotland" src="http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/a5500.jpg" alt="lululemon gal ashley in scotland" width="500" height="333" /></a><br />
<em>Ashley living in Scotland.</em></p>
<p>So far, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Chamonix (France) have been the hosts of my traveling office. In early March, I’ll be working from Spain, and I have an ambitious list of places that I plan to spread some lululemon love in the months to come!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/a1500.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6839" style="border: 0px;" title="picture perfect" src="http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/a1500.jpg" alt="living your dreams" width="500" height="333" /></a><br />
<em>A new life with a new view.</em></p>
<p>If you have big, wild, crazy dreams I recommend that you don’t delay.</p>
<p>Make a decision. Take a leap. Do it now.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/a9500.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6840" style="border: 0px;" title="ashley's life" src="http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/a9500.jpg" alt="vision board goal setting example" width="500" height="333" /></a><br />
<em>A vision board makes your goals and dreams reality.</em></p>
<p>You only have one life to live, and trust me, it can be pretty darn spectacular.</p>
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