Hinge: Dating & Relationships 17+
Meet, Date & Find Love
Hinge, Inc.
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HINGE, DESIGNED TO BE DELETED
Hinge is the dating app for people who want to get off dating apps. And it’s working. Currently, 3 out of 4 times Hinge members want to go on a second date, we’re the #1 mobile-first dating app mentioned in the New York Times wedding section, and we’re the fastest growing dating app in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
HOW WE GET YOU OFF HINGE
In today’s digital world, singles are so busy matching that they’re not actually connecting, in person, where it counts. Hinge is on a mission to change that. So we built an app that’s designed to be deleted.
* We quickly learn your type. You’ll only be introduced to the best people for you.
* We give you a sense of someone’s personality. You’ll get to know potential dates through their unique answers to prompts, and personal information like religion, height, and politics.
* We make it easy to start a conversation. Every match begins by someone liking or commenting on a specific part of your profile.
* We ask how your dates are going. After exchanging phone numbers with a Match, we’ll follow up to hear how your date went so we can make better recommendations in the future.
The app is free to use. Members looking to see who likes them or to set advanced preferences can upgrade to a Preferred Membership.
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Does Setting Goals Lead To Success, Or Limit It?
Executive Summary
It is viewed as almost common wisdom: the key to success is to set clear goals so that you can achieve them. After all, if you don’t know what your goals are, you can’t determine the path to reach them. Financial planning itself is rooted deeply in this philosophy, given its significant emphasis on goals (whether for retirement, college, legacy, or something else) as a foundational step in the financial planning process. Yet as I reflect on my own financial and business success over the past decade, I am struck by a startling realization: not only did I not set any goals for myself, but I’m quite certain that if I had, I would be less successful today. Because it’s not about goals, really. It’s about habits.
Author: Michael Kitces
Michael Kitces is Head of Planning Strategy at Buckingham Wealth Partners, a turnkey wealth management services provider supporting thousands of independent financial advisors.
In addition, he is a co-founder of the XY Planning Network, AdvicePay, fpPathfinder, and New Planner Recruiting, the former Practitioner Editor of the Journal of Financial Planning, the host of the Financial Advisor Success podcast, and the publisher of the popular financial planning industry blog Nerd’s Eye View through his website Kitces.com, dedicated to advancing knowledge in financial planning. In 2010, Michael was recognized with one of the FPA’s “Heart of Financial Planning” awards for his dedication and work in advancing the profession.
Today’s blog post is inspired by a recent conversation I had about financial and business success, and what it takes to succeed. The discussion initially revolved around the classic wisdom of the importance of setting goals and the role it plays in the financial planning process. Yet as I reflected on my own experience, I realized that all of my success stems not from setting goals, but instead from establishing good habits.
Perhaps some examples might help. As many of you know, I am a bit of a learning junkie, with an almost literal «alphabet soup» of letters after my name signifying more than half a dozen different designations and two Master’s degrees. Because of this, I’m often asked «how many I’m going for» or «why I set a goal to get so many.» Yet the answer is very simple; I don’t have any such goals. I have a habit of making myself learn something new, every day. It turns out that when I repeat this habit, day after day and year after year, but enrolling in programs that structure and facilitate my learning, I end out with a whole bunch of designations. But the goal was not designations. I just made learning a habit. The designations and degrees are what I accomplished while I was on the journey.
And perhaps my tendency to not set goals is best reflected in my business activity. Seven years ago, I had never given a speech on a podium, and had never published anything I’d written. Now my primary income is from professional speaking at conferences, and paid subscriptions to my newsletter, in addition to the work that I do for Pinnacle Advisory Group, New Planner Recruiting, and more. If you had asked me then to set a goal about what I’d be doing at the turn of the decade, speaking and writing would not have even made the list. In fact, if you had asked me just 4-5 years ago as this activity was starting for me, how much I would be writing, how many speeches I’d be giving, how many conferences I’d be attending, and what my business would be earning for all of this activity, there is no way that I would have predicted the extent to which the business has grown. In other words, if I had set a goal, the goal would have been lower than what I could achieve, and if I had in fact set that goal, I would have likely «relaxed» once the goal had been reached, and today I’d actually have a less profitable and successful business. Instead, I didn’t set goals; once again, I just tried to establish good habits, of speaking to the media often, of publishing on a regular basis, of developing new content as much as I can, and I’ve let the journey take me where it will.
Does that mean we should never set goals, and just let the journey take us where it will? Not exactly. I do still think there can be some value in establishing goals. with an important caveat. Don’t let the goal BE the end point. The purpose of setting a goal is to determine what habits you must establish that will lead to success. Ultimately, though, it’s the habits that actually bring about the success, and once you’re on a journey supported by the right habits, goals just limit the outcome.
So what do you think? Is goal-setting really a critical step to success? Or is goal-setting just about determining the habits you need to follow to get on the right path? Am I just «strange» that setting habits works better than setting goals? Does this seem relevant for any of yours clients, or perhaps some clients more than others?
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Real English Conversations: What leads to success?
Hi! Lori here, welcoming you to another episode of Real English Conversations from betteratenglish.com. In today’s conversation, my British friend Michael and I discuss our reactions to a presentation about “What leads to success,” given by Michael Richard St. John. Everyone wants to be successful, right? But have you ever wondered what it is that leads to success? Richard St. John spent several years interviewing hundreds of successful people, asking them about the factors that led to their success. In a three-minute presentation at the TED conference, he presented his findings, some of which you might find surprising. I highly suggest that you watch the video either before or after listening to this episode. I have embedded the video on our web site, www.betteratenglish.com. You can also find it on the TED web site, www.ted.com.
By the way, the technical difficulties that I mentioned last week have supposedly been resolved now — please do let me know if you have any further problems downloading our audio files.
Conversation transcript
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Vocabulary notes
down to
If X is down to Y, then X is the main reason for Y, or the main thing that is important for doing Y.
close to my heart
If something is close to your heart, it means that it is very important to you.
innate
If something is innate, it is something you were born with, not something you learned.
predisposition
To be predisposed to/towards something means that you are likely to behave in a particular way or to exhibit certain characteristics.
put your nose to the grindstone
The idiom to put one’s nose to the grindstone means that you work very hard for a long time.
setbacks
A setback is something that causes delays in success or prevents you from making progress.
a smooth ride
The idiom a smooth ride means having an easy, trouble-free time doing something. The opposite is a bumpy ride, which means facing lots of difficulties and problems.
venture capitalists
Venture capitalists help start-up companies by investing money in them.
given up
If you give up, you stop trying.
jack-of-all-trades
A jack-of-all-trades is someone who can do many different jobs.
heavy
In this context, heavy means tedious and boring.
slides
In presentation software such as Powerpoint, each “page” is called a slide.
tight
If you describe a talk or presentation as tight, it means that it was concise and well constructed, with no unneeded parts or excess.
Bonus links
• See the original video and many other great presentations on the TED website.
• Richard St. John’s webpage about success, and another video presentation.
• You can even buy his book about success on Amazon.
SuccessFactors 4+
SuccessFactors, Inc.
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SAP SuccessFactors Mobile helps businesses bring HR closer to their employees, so they are more engaged, more productive, and much smarter about the way they work. SAP SuccessFactors Mobile provides a native, consumer-like experience, ability to meet strict security standards, manageability of features and functionalities in mobile devices and optimized procedures for mobile performance.
Use SAP SuccessFactors Mobile to:
* View employee profiles and call, text, or email them directly
* Approve all your requisitions within seconds
* View your company’s organization chart to see how everyone is connected, including direct reports, matrix reports and new hires
* Post your own text, photo and video updates
* View and add comments to entire documents, presentations, videos and links
* Sign up for courses, connect with experts and complete entire classes
* Manage your active goal plans and update your goal status and progress towards completion
* View your time off balance, submit time off requests to your manager and let colleagues know when you will be away from work
Important: If you are an SAP SuccessFactors customer and are having trouble logging in, contact your SAP SuccessFactors administrator.
About SAP SuccessFactors
SAP SuccessFactors provides the leading cloud-based SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite, which helps HR drive business execution with solutions that are complete, beautiful, and flexible enough to start anywhere – optimizing your workforce today and preparing them for tomorrow. SAP SuccessFactors solutions are supported by a global partner ecosystem and the experience and commitment of SAP.