Every Few Hours
Take24 uses simple text messaging and powerful software to help you be daily accountable for your behavior change. We deliver alerts, notifications and insightful reports to your network of self-selected accountability partners (i.e. partners, peers, and therapists) who can reach out when you need help and who can suggest new patterns of healthy living to help you overcome bad habits, behavioral health or addiction.
1) Daily Check-ins
Several times a day we send you a single SMS text message question. All you have to do is respond with a single number and short response describing your behavior since the last check-in.
2) Real connections
People are key to making change. We make it easy to stay connected and to get help when you need it most by sending helpful alerts and notifications to your partners, peers and therapists.
3) Personal Dashboards
We chart your daily check-ins to track progress and show trends in your habits. Discover deep insights as you analyze the triggers, routines and rewards that drive your daily behavior.
Life is about making positive change
Achieving results is possible using a daily accountability system and a network of support.
Wide-spread Behavior Challenges
All of us will feel depression in some form. More than 2/3rds are touched by addictions. 69% of Americans are overweight. 22% have a drug, or alcohol addiction. 12% are smokers. 14 million are addicted to pornography and 8 million are addicted to gambling.
Measurable Impact of Addiction
The economic costs of addiction are estimated to be $700B annually. The social cost of broken lives is incalculable but devastating.
Private Fights
Hidden from public view, most people fight their behavior challenges alone. They don't seek therapy. Why? Some know not where to find help. Others are ashamed, afraid and fooled into think they can overcome their problems alone. Isolation never helps. Starting and failing to achieve a goal decreases our will power to try again.
Improved Success
90% of those in an addiction recovery program will relapse. 60% will drop out before realizing long-term recovery. Those in our program report a marked improvement in control with an increase in sobriety, and improved communication increasing the speed of trust with partners.
Daily Accountability
You are 55% more likely to achieve change with daily, automated check-ins. Most human accountability systems will break down after a few weeks.
PERSONALIZED & POWERFUL HABIT INSIGHT REPORTS
Identifying your habit cues or triggers, rewards, and routines makes you 63% more likely to achieve change.
customized care plan
Take24 helps you create a customized care plan that is habit-specific and increases success by 88%
network of support
95% of people who successfully changed a habit said having a network of support was critical to their success.
Putting change into practice
Get inspired by reading the latest blog posts from the Take24 team.
Six Techniques to Making Behavior Change
Research suggests that these six techniques are powerful to change behavior. They have made all the difference for me. But to understand the power of these techniques, it is helpful to think of behavior as a set of habits, both good and bad that consist of inputs and outputs in a predictable pattern. Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habits has created a very helpful graphic that documents the three primary components of a habit which[...]
Text messages can help reduce blood pressure
This is an interesting article from the University of Oxford highlighting a recent study conducted in South Africa. The teams found that interactive text messaging significantly improved patient compliance in taking medicine. The study, of over 1300 adults with high blood pressure in the Cape Town area, compared text message reminders and interactive text messaging to a control group receiving standard care. The results appear online in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. View/Read Article
The New Face of Behavior Change
This very interesting article reveals some interesting data about how a large portion of health issues can be traced back to poor behaviors or lack of adherence to positive/good behaviors, and suggests some ways to improve on those numbers. The National Institutes of Health estimates that unhealthy behaviors account for almost 40 percent of the risk of preventable, premature deaths in the United States. Read more here/below. The New Face Of Behavior Change
Past Pleasures Make it Hard to Say No
I read this fascinating article on some research that shows that people are wired to respond to past pleasures/reward patterns even on a subconscious level, explaining why it is so challenging to change a pleasurable habit or addition. Neuroscientists demonstrated that when people see something associated with a past reward, their brain flushes with the neurotransmitter chemical dopamine—even if they aren’t expecting a reward and even if they don’t realize they’re paying that thing any[...]
The Power of Habit Infographic
Here at Take24, we are pretty big fans of Charles Duhigg and his research and publications around habits. If you haven't read his book, The Power of Habit, we highly recommend you read it. Mr. Duhigg lays out in a very clear way that there are three key parts of a habit: The Cue, The Reward, and The Routine. Take24's proprietary engine helps you identify what your cues and rewards are so you can create a new[...]
The Hard Reality of Addiction: One Addict Speaking to Another
If you are anything like other people, we didn’t intend to be addicts. It just happened to us or so we say. Exposure to our addiction may have started as curiosity. It may have given us a rush of pleasure or relaxation. Whatever the feeling, it was something special for us. That something special is why we kept going back for more all the while becoming more and more addicted. Did we intend to fall[...]
With Few Updates A Partner Will Worry
I was recently reminded just how horrible no information is for a partner who is praying and pleading for information from the addicted partner who he or she hopes is fighting the addiction. Well I am here to share the most likely news. No info from your addicted husband probably means he is still acting out and trying to avoid the conversation where he has to divulge his actions. A good friend has been connecting[...]
Take the Beating
Call me thick skulled but it has taken me a long time to understand this important principle: most of my wife’s anger no matter how much it seems unrelated to my addiction is absolutely connected. Realizing that gave me the perspective I needed to accept the beating. As soon as I did that, the long, drawn out arguments were greatly minimized. Many of you may have already realized the uncomfortable realization that all anger, all[...]
Win by Setting a Failure Penalty
One hundred and sixty five dollars is how much I put at risk for my current goal to lose 9 lbs in two months. Eleven people are part of my support network and their payout if I fail is $15. While the small dollar figure is really quite inconsequential to each of these people, it has had a powerful effect as a penalty to me if I fail. Six of those 11 people are members[...]
Environment FOR Change
A friend of mine has a really difficult addiction he is fighting. He is months into his recovery efforts yet long term sobriety is evading him due to regular relapses. This last week we talked about an important principle, creating an 'environment for change,' that holds the promise for him and many of us to realize the change we want. Countless are the phrases suggesting the connection between us and our environment or our upbringing: You[...]