Every Choice Has a Consequence: Why People Stray Off the Straight & Narrow & How to Get Them Back On Track
By Chuck Gallagher and H. Ron Hulnick
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Chuck Gallagher
Chuck Gallagher learned his lessons about ethics, choices and consequences the hard way, but now he shares his experiences so that others do not have to go through what he went through. You may have seen Chuck on TV or heard him on CNN, CBS, NPR or other sports radio programs. Chuck's insights are sought after for his strong position on sports ethics, business ethics and ethical choices. His focus is ethics, but his passion is empowering others. His unique presentations and consulting on sports ethics clearly demonstrate that he brings something to your team or organization that is not often found in speakers, authors and consultants.Chuck, a former senior vice-president of sales and marketing for a public company, is currently president of SportsEthics.com. It was the school of hard knocks that provided a fertile training ground for Chuck's lessons in success. In the middle of a rising career, Chuck lost everything because he made some bad choices. He has since rebuilt his career and his life back to immense success. Chuck shares his life journey with his clients - the consequences of his unethical choices and how life gives you second chances when you make the right choices. He connects the dots between behavior, choices and success. Chuck gives his sports clients what they need to turn concepts into actions and actions into results. He offers tested and time-proven methods that can enhance personal and professional performance. Yet he keeps it real and honest and fun. He will have your group asking for more because he knows that what is discussed today will yield results tomorrow! Virtually every sports scandal, large or small, is caused by bad ethics off the field. Bad ethics destroys athletic careers. Whether you're an athlete, coach, athletic director, association, trainer or anyone involved in the world of sports, Chuck's courses are for you.While Chuck ran track in high school, the allure of business and speaking became front and center for him in college. Chuck and his family live in South Carolina.
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PREFACE
THIS BOOK IS ABOUT CHOICES – the choices we all make and the consequences that follow. For most people, the word consequences
denotes something bad. That’s not true. Consequences are just consequences. They are what happens following a choice that we make. I’m living proof that consequences can be both good and bad depending on the choice that creates our outcome.
In my first book, Second Chances: Transforming Adversity into Opportunity, I took the time to reflect on a series of choices that created the consequence of federal prison. Let me be clear, that was not a high point in my life. I had both consciously and subconsciously created a series of choices that changed my life forever. Not once did it occur to me that after obtaining my masters in accounting I would be incarcerated for doing something that I knew was unethical and (as we’d say in the south) downright wrong. But there I was in the mid ‘90s walking myself into a life changing experience and living out the truth of that statement – Every Choice has a Consequence.
Now, over two decades later and having spoken to tens of thousands of people both in the U.S. and abroad, I am living proof of both sides of the Every Choice has a Consequence statement. This book is not a chronicle of my prison experience – that has long past. Rather, it is an insight into what motivates behavior. Why do we make the choices that we make? Is it possible to be more aware when making a choice of the consequences that are destined to follow? Are there patterns to human behavior that lead to our choices? What can we do to create a foundation that allows us to make choices that create positive consequences – consequences that move our lives forward with momentum toward success?
It would be great if making choices – powerful, insightful choices – that produce instant success was easy. It’s not! We are constantly bombarded with sensational schemes to gain a great life easily. The sales pitches are crafty. The problem is they prey on the simple patterns of human behavior that can easily lead us to make choices that in the long run are not for our highest good.
Over the past twenty some years I have been blessed to interview scores of people who, for one reason or another, have made choices that yielded consequences that were unanticipated and certainly not desired. In every case, bar none, when all the fluff was removed what emerged was a clear pattern that was identifiable and, if recognized early on, would have created a way to prevent poor choices from ever being made. Don’t get me wrong, I am smart enough to know that we can’t prevent all poor choices from happening. What is true, however, is understanding the process by which we make choices can empower us to move from the unconscious or subconscious level to one of empowerment by making conscious choices. Choices that create consequences that propel us forward in a manner that brings the success that most desire.
Yes, I reference my experiences often and most importantly an unexpected teacher named Buck! I remember the TV series years ago – Touched by an Angel – and I often think of Buck as my angel. Little did I know that a 5 foot 6 inch African American man – my cellmate in prison – would become a source of wisdom that I connect with to this day. Buck’s insights provided the foundation for later learning that has influenced numerous organizations to connect the dots between how we make choices and what can be done to create a positive influence on creating positive empowering choices.
You can get caught up in the story and perhaps miss the point. But I don’t think so! There’s something fundamental and profound that happens when we learn what motivates our behavior. By accepting responsibility for what happens, both good and bad, we become empowered to take actions that can create incredible success. After all, a convicted felon isn’t supposed to be a Vice President in a public company. But then again, every choice has a consequence.
You can be a victim or a victor. The choice is yours. I choose victor. Join me in this book and let’s together find out how.
— Chuck Gallagher
CHAPTER 1
TWENTY-THREE STEPS OUT
IT’S ODD. It’s odd how the beginning of one time of life is often the ending of another. Eleven months earlier I was ending my life, as I knew it, to begin a new phase that I neither wanted nor desired. In fact, where I was headed would be, for the most part, one of the worst experiences imaginable – prison. Yet as I lay in my top prison bunk waiting for 10 p.m. lights out, some eleven months after walking in, I knew that in a few short hours a new journey would begin. I would be retracing the same twenty-three steps I took to enter prison. I would be