If everyone was as good at following through on their decisions to improve their health as they are at making those decisions, we might have fewer New Year’s resolutions!

If you start off strong each year with your healthy resolutions but find yourself needing encouragement after the first few weeks — or months — look to PATH in 2024 to provide the nudge you need! We’ll have a combination punch of encouraging you to track your Healthy Habits and participating in the monthly Healthy Habit challenge.

Healthy Habits let you choose and track the habits you think will improve your health, wealth, relationships, stress levels, diet, exercise and other aspects of well-being. Even better, you earn PATH points for what you do track.

For example, if you want to have more energy by getting active, there are 20 Healthy Habits you can track every day, some pretty simple such as…

• Discreetly exercising while waiting in lines by doing calf raises, ab clenches, glute clenches, etc.
• Having a walking meeting.
• Completing a fun family activity.
• Getting up and moving at least once an hour.
• Taking a five-minute exercise break.

…and some that are more active, like:

• Choosing stairs rather than the elevator.
• Parking at the far end of the parking lot.
• Scheduling a workout.
• Walking for 30 minutes.

Check out all the Healthy Habits on your PATH dashboard by clicking on Home and then Healthy Habits. On the page that displays, click View All to see the many habits you can track. When you click Suggested, you’ll find the habits PATH thinks you should consider based on your interests and health assessment information. Once you add a habit, it appears under the Active tab where you can track it daily — and earn points!   

Healthy Habit Challenges

Each month in 2024, PATH will offer a week-long Healthy Habit Challenge focused on an aspect of physical and/or mental well-being and show you how to get the greatest benefits as you develop that habit.

2024 challenges include:

When you join a challenge, you learn why that habit matters along with helpful tips to build that habit. To achieve success in the challenge, members validate their participation for at least five of the seven days. If they find that habit helpful, they can choose to make it another one of their regular habits and keep tracking it.

Our Mindful of Mental Health Webinars — of which there will again be six in 2024 — often correlate with that month’s Healthy Habit Challenge, so be sure to watch for emails to register for each webinar. Whether you watch live or download the recording later to view it, you’ll earn 100 PATH points.

Add just one wellness-related New Year’s resolution to your list for 2024 — track your Healthy Habits and participate in the Healthy Habits Challenges on PATH — and stay on track for the year!