A Guide to the Potential of Life-Changing Consequences
"Second Chances: Transcending Adversity into Opportunity" is Chuck Gallagher's legend. Chuck's is a myth of the consequences of a substandard choice that spiraled out of control over a four year period.
The book is Chuck's personal story of "success" turned sour. An unexpected phone call became the turning point that forced Chuck to face reality. Chuck bares his soul as he relates how a "recognize in the mirror" revealed his human frailties. This was the time he chose to buy responsibility for his actions, regardless of the "fall-out" of living a life of deception, lies, and illusion.
Chuck shares how he also took a seek within his heart and how it revealed a gaze of the "somebody" he actually was and the spiritual potential available by making honest choices. He uses many entries from his personal journal, made while incarcerated, to provide insights learned through the process of rediscovering what it means to be "somebody."
The book is filled with short meaningful highlighted lessons, truths Chuck learned which are well-behaved of reflection, mediation, and life assimilation. One of my favorites reads: "By your choices, you are empowered. By your choices, you can wreck the chains that bind you. By your choices, you can get joy and happiness."
Chuck's writing is authentic, inspirational, enriching, and life-changing. His life is an illustration of the opportunity afforded when free will is musty to create choices that empower a person to be the spiritual being they were meant to be. His record demonstrates the relationship between personal accountability and finding success as a person and in business.
The final chapter considers "Twenty-Three Points to Ponder." Each point represents one of the twenty-three steps leading into the federal prison where Chuck was imprisoned. These truths enjoy keys to unlocking the "prisons" of personal bondage faced by Chuck's readers. For many years I have been associated with a faith-based prison ministry. I only wish that Chuck's book had been available earlier as an encouragement to the inmates and ex-felons contacted by our organization.
"Second Chances: Transcending Adversity into Opportunity" is a considerable anecdote providing guidelines to aid the reader avoid the pitfalls of and the consequences of awful choices and to claim and activate the potential of making legal choices for sure life-changing consequences.
A complimentary review copy of this book was provided by a representative of the author.
Brown Books Publishing Group
16200 North Dallas Parkway, Suite 170
Dallas, Texas 75248
978-1934812433, $ 19.95, 2010, 186 pages
As reviewed for Midwest Book Review.
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