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Resolutions don't work. Create a business plan instead

If you want exponential growth in 2017, a resolution wont cut it but a written, detailed, working business plan will give you a fighting chance.

By Sandy Schussel | Updated on December 30, 2016
If you want exponential growth in 2017, a resolution won’t cut it — but a written, detailed, working business plan will give you a fighting chance.

In college, my roommate Jack announced his big New Year’s resolution — to finally stop smoking. He was a long-distance runner and was seeing the toll his habit was taking on his performance.

By mid-January, however, it was clear that his resolution was was not to stop smoking cigarettes, it was to stop buying them. Every time he felt the urge to smoke, he asked to “borrow” a cigarette from one of my other roommates. By February, his resolution was forgotten.

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