Free to grow

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 Book Series.

A lifetime 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."

“You should never be satisfied – happy, but not satisfied. Dissatisfaction is a creative state. It took you out of the cave and put you into the condominium. It gave you the wheel, the fax and the furnace. Dissatisfaction gave you and me a lifestyle that is the envy of the world.” – Bob Proctor

Talk is cheap.

Walk your talk and really do something to change your life right now.

My Father Francesco Gaetano (1911-1995) would always say when I was growing up, “No one is born learned. It takes years to develop your skills, but don’t take years.”

In other words, he was saying, carpe momentum.

Seize the moment.

Be real.

Be you.

Don’t promise what you clearly know you cannot deliver.

Under promise and over deliver.

This has been my unswerving mandate to corporations everywhere regardless of present circumstances.

However, hearing and listening are two words that have very different meanings.

Winning is synonymous to the latter and listening and not just hearing is the key.

My beautiful Serafina has a perfect quote for winning in life. “If you promise people the moon, make sure you have a ladder high enough.”

How high is your ladder?

The height of your ladder is contingent upon your plan for success. That one thousand piece puzzle has many, individual parts.

In order for the puzzle to be complete and accurate all the individual pieces must be cut accurately so they all fit together.

It begins with a picture that creates more order, less doubt, less fear and less confusion. If one or two pieces are not cut accurately the entire puzzle is thrown into disarray.

Similarly, life is much the same.

Any goal, aspiration or dream requires a plan. The plan doesn’t have to be perfect as there will be modifications as we journey towards our desired goal.

However, if the initial plan is not solid and cannot stand on its own without constant revisiting, the end result will be flawed.

Personal growth and development coupled with emotional intelligence is the catalyst for proactive change. It does require dogged persistence and determination over time.

“When a person takes responsibility for their life and the results they are obtaining, they will cease to blame others as the cause of their results. Since you cannot change other people, blame is inappropriate. Blaming others causes a person to remain bound in a prison of their own making. When you take responsibility, blame is eliminated and you are free to grow.” - Val Van De Wall

An example of change overtime is the following story.

THE LIFE OF X

X was four years old when his parents divorced. He went back and forth from the west coast to the east for many years, being shipped back and forth between his parents. At age six, he was molested.

He had an IQ of 143. X was very; very intelligent however lacked focus due to fact that he could not concentrate on anything for any length of time. He always said that he was bored. In his junior year, he quit high school, left home and began to travel. It wasn’t long before he ran with the wrong crowd.

He joined a gang and started using and selling drugs. Crime was part of his life now and he had to collect unpaid drug money for the gang. At one point he almost killed a man for refusing to pay his drug debt to the gang. He was imprisoned for his activity for five years. The drugs and the crime led him to drinking. He could easily drink himself into a stupor most days.

Ultimately, his drinking caught up to him and he realized that it was either his bottle or his life. Today, he is drug and alcohol free and no one would ever recognize him from his former life.

His question was, “Why didn’t I meet you 25 years ago?”

The answer is not that easily answered as you can’t change anyone on the planet.

You can’t even change yourself.

People can only change themselves if they desire to do so.

However, you can help them or yourself by introducing ideas that are purposeful, fruitful and impactful that alters any controlling paradigm.

Doing this will unleash The Final Piece Of The Puzzle for you.

This is only the beginning of an endless journey towards self-discovery and awareness and as Val Van De Wall stated, “You are free to grow.”

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