How to conquer New Year’s resolutions from quitting smoking to climbing Everest

Making a New Year’s resolution to improve your health?

I spoke with local experts in a handful of health fields about how to achieve health goals, and their advice – for conquering things ranging from anxiety to excess pounds to smoking – sounded surprisingly similar.

Let’s say you set a goal: climb Mount Monadnock. Quit smoking. Lose 50 pounds. Stop biting your nails.

If they’re outside your normal comfort zone, all big goals can seem as high, as far and as unattainable as the top of Mount Everest. If that goal really is out of reach, people realize it quickly, get frustrated and stop trying, the experts all said.

Mountaineers know no one gets to the top of Everest in one straight shot, and the experts all recommended tackling other goals the same way those climbers conquer towering peaks:

goals to aim for along the way to the summit, and celebrate when you reach each one. Then start looking up at the next one, and keep moving.

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