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You’ve Walked a Million Steps. Now It’s Time to Feel Like a Million In 2019, the OC Healthy Steps Program brought you the Million Steps Challenge — and you really ran with it (pun intended). Now, in 2020, we’re bringing you a different kind of million challenge. It’s time to manage your stress, boost your energy and Feel Like a Million.

Wait … what are we talking about here? We’re talking about the Feel Like a Million program, that’s what! Feel Like a Million helps you manage stress and boost your energy. Almost everyone faces daily challenges that zap energy, that leave you feeling drained or fatigued and prevent you from focusing. But by practicing healthy habits, you can build more resilience. That’s where Feel Like a Million comes in. The program focuses on five core areas:

1. Moving Matters 2. Food to Fuel 3. Better Balance 4. On Purpose 5. Potpourri (unrelated, yet important activities like getting enough sleep, expressing gratitude and volunteering)

YEAH, BUT, WHAT DOES THE PROGRAM ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE? Well, for starters, it looks like a game show. No, seriously: Feel Like a Million has a fun game show theme that helps the 12-week program fly by — you’re too busy feeling good and having a good time to be watching the calendar. The components of the program are:

• A goal worth (a virtual) $1 million. An easy-to-use tracking tool lets you pick healthy activities from the five core categories. Activities are worth different dollar values based on their stress and energy impact. Stack up the virtual dollars and save them toward your goal of $1 million. But beware — energy-zapping activities can take away virtual dollars, too. • Inspirational emails. These daily reminders will help keep you on track and remind you to focus on activities such as exercising, eating right, planning your day and defining purpose. • Team spirit. Join the Millionaire’s Club for some friendly competition, extra motivation and accountability. • Fun quizzes and games. As you learn more about managing stress and increasing energy, you can answer quiz questions and complete a word puzzle for bonus virtual dollars. • Articles, recipes and more. Feel Like a Million is packed with information to help you develop healthy skills. From articles about fitness and life balance to recipes, everything you need is right at your fingertips. • Prizes. We’ll award wellness-related prizes to the top three individual virtual-dollar earners, plus the top team (Only teams of up to five members are eligible for the team prize). We’ll also award a Fitbit activity tracker to 10 randomly drawn participants each month, from March through May. Just earn any virtual dollar amount to be entered into the drawing!*

*Please note that these items may be considered reportable income. The Auditor-Controller may consider this part of the income that you receive in preparing tax-related documents for this calendar year. Whether this will be reportable income will depend on the value of the prize. YOU CAN EARN (VIRTUAL) DOLLARS AT OUR NEW EMPLOYEE WELLNESS CENTER, TOO! The Employee Wellness Center is now open, and if you attend certain activities/programs there, you can earn virtual dollars. Go to www.countywellnesscenter. weebly.com to schedule your visit, or come by in person at County Administration South, located at 601 North Ross St. in Santa Ana (first floor).

SOUNDS FUN, RIGHT? SO COME JOIN US!

Registration is open until Sunday, May 3, 2020. To register, go to ochealthysteps.ifeellikeamillion.com. For more information on Feel Like a Million, call the StayWell HelpLine at 800-492-9812.