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Welcome to Work in Progress, a how-to video series that's meant to help you with everything

from prepping for a job interview to boosting your confidence or negotiating a raise.

Here's today's question:

To start, let's talk about the importance

of setting goals.

You know, I'm a really goal-oriented person, and what that really means is I'm much more

likely to accomplish what it is that I want to do, when I have a plan of action.

And I'm much more motivated to actually accomplish that goal when I know how I'm going to do

it.

So goal setting is really important because if you know where you're trying to go, it's

much easier to get there.

Our recommendation is the SMART Goals system.

SMART stands for specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely.

S is for specific.

You want to ask yourself five questions about your goal—the classic who, what, when, where,

and why.

Who is involved?

What do I want to accomplish?

When—you want to establish a time frame.

Where, identify a location.

And why—the reason, purpose, or the benefits of accomplishing this goal.

Before SMART goals, maybe you might set a goal saying, "I just want to increase my email

subscribers."

But because we want to get specific, you might change that goal to say, "I want to increase

my email subscribers by 5,000 within 5 months, and I'm going to do that by writing guest

posts, having giveaways, and doing some guest speaking.

M is for measurable.

Once you set your goal, you want to establish a criteria for measuring your progress.

When you measure your goals, you stay on track and are more likely to reach your target timeline.

And, you tangibly experience momentum that can keep you going.

Let's go back to the example we had before.

So, if you were setting a goal around email subscribers and it wasn't a SMART goal, so

we weren't measuring it, you might just say, "I hope I reach my goal!"

But because we want to make sure that we're measuring the success of the tactics and strategies

that you're implementing, now we're going to say, "Okay, I'm going to measure the success

of my goal by using Google Analytics.

I'm going to check in on the 1st and 15th of every month to make sure that what I'm

doing is making sense, and getting me closer to my ultimate goal."

A stands for attainable.

You want to make sure that your goals are manageable.

And you want to make sure that you have the ability to make it happen.

Are you able to make them a priority, does your workload allow you the time and energy

to really put in the effort?

If you aren't able to sacrifice the time and money it will take to reach your goal, it

probably isn't attainable.

You might need to re-think what your priorities are.

So going back to our example once again, an unattainable goal, going back to using email

subscribers, might be, "I really want to increase my email subscribers, and I"m going to do

it by writing twice as many blog posts, and starting an Instagram channel, but I'm totally

exhausted and my schedule is full and packed, and I really can't fit in anything else in.

That's going to be pretty unattainable, because you're adding in twice as many blog posts

and an Instagram channel, which are going to take up your time.

R is for relevant.

Set a goal that you're willing, and able to work towards.

Is it relevant to what you want?

Is it worthwhile?

Does it fit in line with your other goals—the immediate and long term?

Your goal can, and should be, aspirational, but just make sure this is something that

will realistically help you achieve your objective.

If it seems like you're setting goals but never reaching them, you may need to scale

back a bit.

Something that's really important when you're setting SMART goals and thinking about, is

it relevant, is think about, what are your company's goals?

If you're setting a goal to increase email subscribers, and that's not relevant to your

company at all, you might get pushback, nobody's going to reprioritize your work to help you

meet that goal, and, basically, you might just be spinning your wheels.

So do yourself a favor and decide, "Is my goal relevant to the company's goals?

My personal goals?

My professional goals?"

And that will really help to make sure that this is worth your time and energy.

And lastly, T is for timely.

Every goal should have a time frame.

Without one, you have no sense of urgency to accomplish your goal.

Simply put, goals need deadlines.

Your goal needs to be timely so that you can measure it.

If you were going to say, "I just want to hit 5,000 email subscribers eventually, I

don't really care when", it's not going to be helpful when you actually do reach that

5,000, because you weren't measuring it, you don't know what worked and what didn't work,

and you have no sense of timeline.

So when you set those goals, decide, what is a realistic timeline for you to reach this

goal?

If you know that reaching 5,000 subscribers in 5 months is pretty much impossible because

right now you're only growing at 100 subscribers a month, then you need to readjust, based

off of the time frame that you know.

And, as you continue to measure, your timing might change.

So just make sure that you're setting a deadline for your goals.

We'd love to keep you accountable to your SMART goals.

Feel free to share them with us in the comments.

And, if you're interested in more help, you can download our free SMART goals worksheet

to help you set realistic benchmarks. Good luck!

For more infomation >> How to Set SMART Career Goals - Duration: 5:17.

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The switch to smart water meters has Roswell residents questioning drastically high bills - Duration: 2:21.

For more infomation >> The switch to smart water meters has Roswell residents questioning drastically high bills - Duration: 2:21.

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Stay Smart, Stay Stevia! - Duration: 0:31.

Great news!

Ideal Protein has expanded its line of healthy drink options!

Discover our Smart line of Stevia drinks!

Choose if you want to stay cool, or stay warm.

For sure, you'll want to stay healthy.

Stay Smart,

Stay Stevia!

For more infomation >> Stay Smart, Stay Stevia! - Duration: 0:31.

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Spying on buyers: Houses becoming smart homes - Duration: 2:04.

For more infomation >> Spying on buyers: Houses becoming smart homes - Duration: 2:04.

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Smart Tiny Houses of The Future by Droomparken for a Family of Four - Duration: 2:13.

Smart Tiny Houses of The Future by Droomparken for a Family of Four

For more infomation >> Smart Tiny Houses of The Future by Droomparken for a Family of Four - Duration: 2:13.

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Inside Smart Homes Around the World - London, England - Duration: 2:26.

I just connected devices initially from a security point of view,

being able to monitor the home when I'm away at work or away on holiday was pretty important.

Currently in this room alone I've even got a dozen connected devices

from the early security cameras, motion detectors, connected lights, plugs,

smart television, network storage, Blu-Ray player is connected.

There's plenty of benefits of smart devices:

I have an air quality monitor for instance so I can see when the air quality in the room is below par

so I can try to figure out ways of making my environment with a bit better.

Also there's the security side, I can monitor the home from wherever I am in the world.

So if I get a notification that motion detector is being set off I can find out why

and then through the camera I can see why.

So it's a balance from being sensible and useful to pure entertainment.

People should be aware that every bit of networked device that they bring into the home,

be it a smart camera or even a smart television,

these are extra ways in - potentially - for somebody to get into your home.

Same way that you protect your doors and windows

you need something to protect your Internet of Things, your connected devices, your smart home devices.

The speed that IoT is growing seems to be faster than ways to protect it.

For me, I haven't got a lot of time to be hiding my network, so adding something like SENSE,

which has been really quick and easy solve, and I'm all for the easy win.

For more infomation >> Inside Smart Homes Around the World - London, England - Duration: 2:26.

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Interview with Steinel: Presentation of the "Smart Friends" Home Automation - Duration: 2:42.

>> Today we'll take a look at the current developments by Steinel

in terms of smart technologies.

And there is a very interesting cooperation,

which David Petsch will explain to us.

May I introduce you to our smart home solution - "Smart Friends".

Under the name "Smart Friends"

we offer four cooperation partners:

Steinel, ABUS, Schellenberg and Paulmann.

We now we have the opportunity to push our home automation

by integrating various products into our smart home.

We can e.g. combine roller shutter drives by Schellenberg

with our sensors.

We can say the set twilight value on my Steinel LED spotlight

recognizes my set lux value and closes

the shutters in the house.

>> When evening comes, so to speak.

Exactly.

Or another scenario would be e.g. the safety technology by ABUS.

That means I have a smoke detector which detects a fire in the house.

Thus all the shutters in the house open and the outdoor lighting turns on.

So when I leave the house I also have light.

Recently, the whole thing can be controlled via Amazon's Alexa.

That means I can integrate that into my app

and have the ability to program different voice commands now.

>> And also depending on another product?

Yes.

For beginners we have these five products plus the Smart Friends box.

Once we have an outdoor lamp with motion detector.

An LED spotlight with motion detector.

An interior light with motion detector.

A single motion detector.

And brand new - a "problem solver" - our latest motion switch.

For all customers

who are still reluctant to exchange a complete range of switches today,

they have the opportunity to purchase a 4in1 product from us.

That is, I have the option of a button,

a twilight switch,

a motion detector and an integrated night light.

>> That sounds great.

For more infomation >> Interview with Steinel: Presentation of the "Smart Friends" Home Automation - Duration: 2:42.

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Wonder Core Smart Exercise System w/Workout DVD Bands - Duration: 21:49.

For more infomation >> Wonder Core Smart Exercise System w/Workout DVD Bands - Duration: 21:49.

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Smart Bond Investing - Duration: 1:05.

The most important thing before you go out

and start adding bonds to the portfolio

is truly understanding what you need the bond to do.

Begin with the end in mind.

Once you have an understanding

of what your balance sheet needs,

in terms of the income,

in terms of risk control,

it makes it a very easy path

to take a look at what your options are

and see what fits and what doesn't fit

for your particular balance sheet.

Everybody wants to sell you bonds.

And they're gonna tell you it's the best thing for you.

But those people also don't know your credit union.

They don't know your balance sheet or your portfolio.

So, that's when you really have to

do your due diligence.

Really break it down and decide whether or not

this is something that fits your needs.

With bond investing, with all investing,

but bond investing in particular,

it's very important to make sure that needs are aligned.

Don't accept what you're being shown.

Ask for what you need.

And when you find out what you need,

and you get what you need,

you've found the perfect partnership.

For more infomation >> Smart Bond Investing - Duration: 1:05.

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MW18 Lightning Talk: Smart Collaboration - Duration: 5:48.

Hi everyone.

My name is Gretchen Halverson, and this is Shel Olsen.

We're from the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

We're here today to talk about collaboration.

We started to think about this topic

after returning from a conference,

feeling, on one hand, a great sense of excitement,

of energy,

of thrill to collaborate and contribute to the field.

On the other hand, we felt a sense of fatigue,

a sense of overwhelming knowing

that the day to day work might get in the way.

How might we work against this cycle?

How can we keep the post-conference momentum going

after we leave?

How can we think about small collaborative efforts

as a means to get there?

We'd like to start with a story.

- So, it was a few years ago that we were

rebuilding our flagship website. We wanted to...

(person shouting)

- Mic, is it okay?

We wanted to rebuild our collections website

a few years ago,

and we wanted the search to be really fast,

and we wanted it to be really, deeply browsable,

and really showcase the information on all the artworks

that we hold in our museum.

We got those core goals mostly built,

and things were up and running,

and then we were in a meeting trying to figure out,

"What do we still need?"

We came up with a few ideas, and one of those was

that we needed a way to show the relative size

of all our artworks,

and give a visual idea of how big or small something is.

We didn't quite know how to do this,

so we had to go from there.

So, we wrote it down.

It was on our to do list, and we waited

to come up with our concrete next action.

Luckily, right around this time,

there was a blog post from Good, Form & Spectacle,

which is a design agency based in London

that works with cultural heritage,

and they were working on a project for the British Museum,

and they had built a dimension drawer,

which draws that nice, volumetric box next to

a bright yellow tennis ball,

and it does a really good job of showing how big

or small something is against a universal reference point.

They wrote their project.

They posted all of the code openly,

and so, it only really took a day or two to dive in

and adapt what they did to work with our collection.

We generated 150,000 dimensioned rungs.

We put them into our collection site, and they worked great.

This simple, we sent a note of thanks back to London,

and they were overjoyed to see their projects getting used.

We really didn't expect to get the feedback

that we did get noted.

It generated a lot of interest from our visitors,

and even became a point of reference in the field.

You can see Chad from St. Louis Museum Park

here tweeting up how this is a good example

of how to do it on the website.

But, we really don't deserve too much credit for this.

It all goes back to George Oates and Frankie Roberto,

who were two collaborators in London

that worked on this project.

We just found it roughly at the right time and were able

to implement it quickly, and with little investment.

- So, this example illustrates that collaboration can happen

not just in big, elaborate ways,

but in small, organic ones, too.

The effort didn't occur over months and months.

It didn't require deep budgets.

It didn't require layers of approval.

Rather, it was small.

It was measured, but it was also significant.

We'd like to ask that we value those small contributions,

those small collaborative efforts,

just as much as we value the big ones.

- And, to take a step back, this isn't new.

This isn't a great, wonderful idea that we've invented.

This has been happening for a long time,

and it's happening more and more.

We think the two of us aren't necessarily even

that good at it. (audience laughs)

So, I want to take a moment to thank everybody who's here

in this room,

who professionally engages through blogging,

or on social media, or by attending conferences like these.

I think it's a really, really generous gesture

for all of us to be here,

and it all leads us into a tighter-knit community,

and by sharing our experiences,

and talking about the work we do,

we're taking small steps forward.

- So, this might just seem like common sense.

It might be obvious,

but perhaps we acknowledge

that simple can sometimes be hard,

and practice makes perfect,

and small can be significant.

So how do we get there?

Number one: talk about your work.

GitHub, slack channels, blogs, e-mails, coffees;

talk about what's working, and what's not working.

Where do you need help,

and where might you have an opportunity to share you work?

- There are almost too many opportunities to share

and to read and listen,

but the second most important thing is that we find

what other people are talking about or sharing in.

Pay attention to it,

and really register that within our day-to-day work.

Even if it's just a matter of taking a few minutes a day

to follow-up with someone,

that's the start of bigger efforts and collaboration.

- And finally, use it.

When you find someone's work, when you're listening to it,

think about whether you can use that to solve one

of your own problems.

Save a week's worth of work,

and get that work that could win.

- So, we think that these are some things that we can do

to keep the ball rolling,

make it maybe roll a little bit faster.

I'm not saying that everyone should go home and start a blog

on Monday, or write a presentation for the next conference,

I hope, but, what can we find that's really a small gesture,

a little thing that might make a big difference somewhere

in the future?

- What can you commit to today?

Dedicate yourself to finding the value in those small,

collaborative moments,

and be hopeful that those moments matter.

Thank you.

(audience applauds)