{"id":113537,"date":"2026-02-14T00:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113537\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T00:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:54:06","slug":"wellness-for-life-to-hold-sessions-on-financial-planning-and-breaking-up-with-bad-habits-university-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113537\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellness for Life to hold sessions on financial planning and breaking up with bad habits | University Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tThe latest Wellness for Life monthly challenges focuses on financial instead of physical health.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe February Financial Wellness Challenge is \u201cMake a Spending Plan Work For You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tParticipants will learn how to become smarter about money and create a plan to be more intentional about their finances.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThose who sign up and track attendance four\u00a0times by Feb. 28 will earn up to 25 points.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTo get started: Log in to your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.my.pitt.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my.pitt.edu<\/a>\u00a0&gt; Health Plan Access &gt; Wellness (top menu bar) &gt; Wellness for Life &gt; Discover Tab<\/p>\n<p>\tBreak up with bad habits<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAre you ready to stop the bad habits that sabotage your wellness goals?\u00a0 There are strategies that can maximize your chances for success.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHuman Resources will host a\u00a0Wellness for Life Virtual Lunch and Learn on \u201cBreak Up with Bad Habits\u201d from noon to 1 p.m. Feb. 16. The event will be presented virtually via Microsoft Teams.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%3ameeting_ZGQ4ZDVkNTUtZmMzYy00OWI5LWEyZTktYmY2YjQyYjUwMzAz%40thread.v2\/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%228b3dd73e-4e72-4679-b191-56da1588712b%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f1d0dcb8-0198-48c8-8f5c-8ecd1f09e604%22%7d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Join here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis presentation will cover ways to increase your odds of breaking bad habits and taking back your life.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPlus, just for joining, UPMC Health Plan members will earn up to\u00a010 points\u00a0toward their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hr.pitt.edu\/current-employees\/work-life-balance\/wellness-for-life\/wellness-incentives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HIA Reward Dollars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest Wellness for Life monthly challenges focuses on financial instead of physical health. The February Financial Wellness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1594,10605,497,3398,73,75,74,1164,3315,10604,10603],"class_list":{"0":"post-113537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-college","9":"tag-graduate","10":"tag-learning","11":"tag-pitt","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","14":"tag-pittsburgh-news","15":"tag-research","16":"tag-students","17":"tag-undergraduate","18":"tag-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}