When it comes to making New Year’s resolutions, Brantley Gilbert says they don’t work for him because he tends to live his life one day at a time.  He says, “I set short-term goals.  It helps me stay driven and motivated, and long-term goals have never been super successful for me when it comes to things like that.”

Anytime Brantley feels like he needs to change something or quit something in his life, it has to be his decision in his own time in order for it to work.  “Once I’m done with something, I’m done,” says Brantley.  “So if I say I’m gonna be done with somethin’, then I do it, then I’m done with it.  That quittin’ smokin’ thing is coming soon, but I don’t think it’d last if it was just a New Year’s resolution.  If I come up with it in my mind, ‘Hey, this is what I need to do with my life and it needs to happen now,’ then I’ll set up my own little timing and execute it and stay away from it.”

Brantley knows that when he sets his mind to something he can do it, like quitting drinking.  In fact, this month he is celebrating his sixth year of being alcohol and opioid free.  And Brantley just released his brand new duet, “What Happens in a Small Town,” which he sings with Lindsay Ell.  It’s the first release off Brantley’s fifth studio album, which he’ll release in 2019.

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“With what I do for a living, everything’s so run and gun and it’s so last minute all the time.  I feel like you schedule what you can, but for my life, even the last six years not drinking, it’s been a day to day thing.  I set short-term goals.  It helps me stay driven and motivated, and long-term goals have never been super successful for me when it comes to things like that.  So, my pop’ll tell you, he’s my biker dad, he tells everybody that once I’m done with something, I’m done.  So if I say I’m gonna be done with somethin’, then I do it, then I’m done with it.  That quittin’ smokin’ thing is coming soon, but I don’t think it’d last if it was just a New Year’s resolution.  If I come up with it in my mind, ‘Hey, this is what I need to do with my life and it needs to happen now,’ then I’ll set up my own little timing and execute it and stay away from it.”