Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K's Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon and it's time for a five minute Friday.

Let's talk about New Year's resolutions. It's the end of the year and this is one of my most

important rituals that I do every year is I think about kind of the top 10 things I want to push

myself to do to become a better person, to stretch my

skill set, and to just push my limits. I think it's so easy to fall into a routine where

you don't think about resolutions or you don't think you owe anybody anything. But I'm here

to tell you that you owe yourself that little extra push of thinking and taking inventory

and deciding what you do well and what you want to revamp about yourself. So I always kind of think

about things that I'm not doing that I need to add, things that I'm doing that I'd like to do better,

and things that I've never tried that I need

to master or accomplish or make it part of my skill set. So that's kind of how I think about

New Year's resolutions. And I always take my list with a grain of salt because I don't want

me or you or anyone to feel like a failure when life intervenes and you just can't

get everything done on your list. These are aspirational goals. And why do we write things down?

Because a Harvard Business School study says that we're 40% more likely to accomplish our goals

when we write them down. And because it's an active self-commitment

and because when we master those things, we feel so much gratification and we feel internal confidence

because we haven't let ourselves down in a goal that we created and a goal that we mastered.

But on the flip side, up to 40% of

resolutions are over within four months. So people try and mostly everyone fails. It's a very

common. Maybe we last one month with our New Year's resolutions, but 40% of people fail by

month four. So it's not a problem.

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