The Small Business Saturdays Podcast with Aaron Montgomery · Aaron Montgomery

Believe, Achieve, and Succeed

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Self-doubt is like trying to drive a car with the emergency brake on, and pushing the gas harder won't fix it.

1. Small Business Saturdays with Aaron Montgomery, recorded from an Indianapolis hotel room, builds the "Believe, Achieve, Succeed" episode around the question of whether listeners deeply believe they can succeed. 2. Aaron Montgomery hosts from rsuccessgroup.com and draws on his mentor Jack Canfield, whose video forms the middle of the episode, plus live commenters Christy and Jerry. 3. The core thesis is that self-trust fades through early mistakes and an "internal critic," and that rebuilding it works like "fertilizer" in the "money tree" cycle of his book on business fundamentals. 4. Jack Canfield reports that the 500-plus participants at his Breakthrough to Success event named mindset as their biggest obstacle, then quotes Byron Katie's "a thought is harmless unless we believe it." 5. Canfield recommends mindfulness meditation to notice thoughts without attaching to them, stressing that 10 minutes every day beats 30 minutes a couple of times a week. 6. Canfield also teaches the "cancel, cancel" pattern interrupt and suggests placing about 10 Post-it notes on a bathroom mirror, refrigerator, and car dashboard as prompts to swap negative thoughts for positive ones. 7. Aaron Montgomery frames this as success principle number 10, "release the brakes," and says "E plus R equals O" and taking 100 percent responsibility must come first, while admitting he can offer empathy but "can't help unless somebody asks." 8. Aaron shares that he is not a consistent meditator, describes a new three-to-four-minute Zentangle practice, and notes that commenter Christy uses tapping and yoga while Calm is one app option. 9. He reads sample affirmations such as growing to 10 or more Masters of Success members, and says that at 40, after 22 years in his industry, he uses Jerry's "I know I can do this" to counter doubts about being "past your prime." 10. Small business owners who want a practical mindset routine will get the most from it.

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