{"id":6044,"date":"2014-10-17T06:29:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T22:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6044"},"modified":"2014-10-17T06:29:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T22:29:39","slug":"8-slow-difficult-steps-to-become-a-millionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/17\/8-slow-difficult-steps-to-become-a-millionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Slow, Difficult Steps to Become a Millionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2. Start tracking how many people you help, even in a very small way.<br \/>\nThe most successful people I know \u2013 both financially and in other ways \u2013 are shockingly helpful. They\u2019re incredibly good at understanding other people and helping them achieve their goals. They know their success is ultimately based on the success of the people around them.<br \/>\nSo they work hard to make other people successful: their employees, their customers, their vendors and suppliers\u2026 because they know, if they can do that, then their own success will surely follow.<br \/>\nAnd they will have built a business \u2013 or a career \u2013 they can be truly proud of.<br \/>\n3. Stop thinking about making a million dollars and start thinking about serving a million people.<br \/>\nWhen you only have a few customers and your goal is to make a lot of money, you\u2019re incented to find ways to wring every last dollar out of those customers.<br \/>\nBut when you find a way to serve a million people, many other benefits follow. The effect of word of mouth is greatly magnified. The feedback you receive is exponentially greater \u2013 and so are your opportunities to improve your products and services. You get to hire more employees and benefit from their experience, their skills, and their overall awesomeness.<br \/>\nAnd, in time, your business becomes something you never dreamed of \u2013 because your customers and your employees have taken you to places you couldn\u2019t even imagine.<br \/>\nServe a million people \u2013 and serve them incredibly well \u2013 and the money will follow.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/236687\">8 Slow, Difficult Steps to Become a Millionaire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2. Start tracking how many people you help, even in a very small way. The most successful people I know \u2013 both financially and in other ways \u2013 are shockingly helpful. They\u2019re incredibly good at understanding other people and helping them achieve their goals. They know their success is ultimately based on the success of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/17\/8-slow-difficult-steps-to-become-a-millionaire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;8 Slow, Difficult Steps to Become a Millionaire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-for-the-day","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}