The what if syndrome

FRANCO CIANFLONE
4 min readAug 11, 2021

“It’s better to shoot and miss, then to let time run out and wonder what if.” — Michael Jordan

“Rewire your brain and catapult your results in life and business.”

“What if today.. you were inspired and fed by your thoughts instead of being confined by them?” — Marjo-Riikka Mäkelä

FRANCO CIANFLONE B.Sc. Ed. M. Ed. LSC CS MENTAL TOUGHNESS FOR LIFE Certified Corporate Trainer, Educator, Business Consultant, Author & Entrepreneur.

Franco Cianflone is a graduate of the internationally acclaimed Bill Gove Speech Workshop with a Corporate Speaker designation. His extensive corporate training includes Bob Proctor, Paul Martinelli, and training seminars/sessions with Steve Siebold, John Maxwell, Les Brown, Tony Robbins, Mark Victor Hansen, and many others. He is the author of sixteen books to date and co-founder of Mini Bytes For The Brain.

Fifty years of Education and Business leadership compliments his mission to transform and catapult the results of individuals everywhere on the globe as far as Australia. His life mantra is, “Others will be looking at the fire while you are walking through the fire towards your victory and success”.

Burning Desire + Action coupled with faith, hope and love creates results beyond our wildest dreams.

In order for this recipe to work efficiently, we must all have a belief in ourselves beyond faith.

This must be a belief that transcends all self-imposed restrictions, societal or familial expectations etc.

Choose hope as hope allows the fresh air of possibility to enter your being.

Hope is the ingredient that dispels the what if syndrome of life.

You should always be prudent when it comes to the what if questions in life.

Do everything that you can humanly do with any issue then absolutely release it.

Dwelling on the what if questions constantly transforms your psychological house into an uninhabitable place.

Stop this, as the X factor loves to prey on your fear, anxiety and panic. It will do anything to prevent you from moving forward with rational thought.

It loves to keep you stuck in your limbic system of the brain with no chance of emotional intelligence.

The following is what Bob Proctor had to say about this infamous X factor in everyone’s psychological house.

“Understand this. X cannot be trusted. Your X factor remembers and reminds you. It’s devious. It’s insidious how devious it is. It will take any path. It has no rules. It will win at any cost. It does not want your Y factor to win. It does not want you to take over. For every failure, for every settling, for everything that’s rote in your life, that’s just not what you hoped it would be, that’s your X factor paradigm assuring you that status quo is the way to go. But who wants status quo?”

Hope is powerful but only if you use it and put it into decisive action.

Many beautiful people have no understanding of the potential power of this phenomenon.

You do.

At a time like this, it is crucial that our thoughts be quarantined with thoughts of faith, hope and love and not fear.

Fear is the most destructive force in the universe.

Get rid of fear and replace it with hope.

The most deplorable word on the planet is this four-letter word fear. I could think of a lot of other four letter words but this one takes the cake.

This four-letter word steals your joy.

It steals your dreams.

It absolutely steals anything and everything that you ever wanted to accomplish on this earth and beyond.

It is responsible for conflicts, wars, poverty, lack and so many other maladies that have inflicted the human race.

You’re getting the picture?

TO BE CONTINUED

Onward and Godward.

Carpe Momentum

Franco Cianflone

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