Chuck Gallagher

Gaining Through Adversity

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Sir Winston Churchill Adversity is one of those words that when we hear it or it comes our way our inclination is to run and hide from it. I... Read >

Ethics: The Mind of a Child

Henry just arrived home from a long day at work. He is reading the newspaper in his favorite chair waiting for dinner to be served. The phone rings. Henry yells out at the kids and his wife, "If it is for me tell them I not home". Julie, his oldest, a... Read >

Ethical Choices: Spiritual Consequences

Twenty-one years ago I made a choice. At the time it seemed so simple and insignificant. I sat there with three questions as I pondered the "opportunity": Who would know? Who would care? And the cost - what cost? Little did I know at the time that ev... Read >

Sales Success: Four Critical Steps

It's been said often, "Some folks can't seem to see the forest for the trees." Perhaps that's true in any arena, but it seems that it's rampant in sales, especially when sales are down. Time after time, when sales start to fall we find sales people bec... Read >

Teens Face Ethical Dilemma – Can We Help?

In a recent survey, teens reported, by a stunning margin (81%) that they felt "significant pressure" to succeed or achieve - no matter the cost. What's more - those same teens expect the pressure to get worse as they enter the workforce. This is ev... Read >

Being Someone: From the Perspective of a Fourth Grader

If you posed this question to a fourth grader, what do you suppose their answer would be? "If a person were invited to speak to your class today and you saw them walking down the hall, how would you know that they are ‘somebody!'?" Better still, if yo... Read >

That First Bite: Success No Matter The Cost?

It seems that some things never change. As adults, we hear through the media, about the lack of ethics and the consequences of ethical lapses. They capture attention in almost every venue - from broadcast to internet to print. Whether we hear about Enr... Read >

Attitude and Attraction: Inevitable Laws of the Universe

"It's just uncanny," one of his sales directors said, "but every month somehow he pulls it off. He just never misses his sales targets. I just don't get it. What is he doing different?" That question was asked with passion and a certain frustration, c... Read >

Choices: Negative Consequences or Positive Results of our Ethical Choices

Over ten years ago I learned a profound lesson: You reap what you sow. While many people feel that they can avoid consequences - one thing is for sure - consequences are inevitable. Every choice we make will ultimately yield a result. In my case, uneth... Read >

Choices: Lessons from Prison - Consequences from Ethical Choices: A Daily Memoir-October 3rd

With over ten years behind me since I walked in to Federal Prison, I can clearly see the effects of the choices we make. We can wander in the illusion of life and think that we have eluded the consequences of our choices, but those consequences are inesc... Read >

Redefining Success: Ethics, Consequences and Lessons from Prison

Have you ever had one of those "ah-ha" moments when you quickly gained a greater awareness than you ever had before? I must say, that as bad as I felt in this place, prison was an intense learning lab. I didn't know that going in, but in retrospect I am... Read >

Ethics and Consequences: Lessons from Prison – October 6th

Competent, educated and in prison - I would never have considered that this is where I would be some 11 years ago. But, there are consequences to every choice we make and though one might think that we can avoid the consequences - we can't. They are un... Read >