The Small Business Saturdays Podcast with Aaron Montgomery · Aaron Montgomery

Speeding Up Success

·50 min·4 clips

Aaron reveals why negative thinking sabotages success and how to flip that switch instantly.

The starting point is familiar. The host watches a Jack Canfield video about speeding up success and brings the question back to people building small businesses. Everyone wants momentum, especially when it feels like things are taking too long. He names that frustration, then turns it into a quieter conversation about attention. Okay, focus gets practical. Instead of making success a matter of forcing more speed, he keeps coming back to balance and where the mind is allowed to wander. Shiny objects keep barging in. The middle of the episode sits with that problem through meditation, tapping, distraction, and the awkward truth that staying present is hard when reminders and worries keep popping up. That part helps. The host admits he can get halfway through a meditation and suddenly remember some task, so the advice feels lived-in rather than polished. Then comes the car image: thoughts pass in front of you, you notice them without judgment, and you let them move on so you can look straight ahead again. In his telling, speeding up success comes less from pushing harder and more from getting out of the swirl that scatters your effort. Zentangles are his example. He talks about learning the structured drawing practice through Lorraine Thompson and finding that the steps help him focus when sitting with his thoughts does not quite do it. The homework stays personal: find the thing that helps you step away from the noise, return to yourself, and put energy back on the positives. The ending stays simple. Easy ways to speed up success come from looking across the areas that matter, finding balance, and choosing a steadier focus.

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A steady reminder that progress gets easier when attention stays put.

Speeding Up Success treats ambition as a pacing problem, not a moral one. Erin Montgomery starts with a Jack Canfield video and uses it to ask why people feel behind, why they push too hard, and why attention matters when the day starts pulling in different directions.

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