 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. With 2023 just getting started, many are ready to start the year off right with New Year's resolutions. However, many will fall short and abandon their New Year's goals within a few months. Mountaintop spoke with Michelle Martell to learn some tips on how to maintain your New Year's resolutions. Yeah, so New Year's is a time when a lot of people want to start fresh and make new goals, usually related to lifestyle changes. But a lot of times, I'll just speak from my own experience, people have trouble following through. And I think that's because a lot of white people don't know the tricks and the traits that behavioral psychologists know in terms of how to set good goals. The biggest problem people have when starting a New Year's resolution is setting a goal that is too high. Luckily, there's a trick for pacing yourself slowly to work towards your goal without putting too large a strain on your lifestyle. An easy acronym to remember is to set SMART goals and SMART, every letter in SMART stands for something. So S is for specific, M is for measurable, A is for attainable, R is for relevant, and T is for timely or time-sensitive. So a lot of people set pretty large goals at the beginning of the year, and that's where you hit that A for attainable. What you want to do is set something that is close to what you feel like you're already doing so that you can gradually make larger changes. We call that in behavioral psychology shaping. So starting with something small and then maybe using it to move more in the right direction instead of setting a really large goal. Many people are tempted to give up on their resolutions after faltering for one day. However, it is important to remember that progress is not linear and everyone deserves at least one cheat day. Staying determined and picking up where you left off the next day is the key to attaining your New Year's goals. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Dean.