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PUSHING TO THE FRONT
have you heard, “I didn’t know that” after a bad choice? The other
word, Apatheia, means you’ve been taught but you don’t care or you
are apathetic and don’t care about the consequence. Perhaps you’ve
heard, “I don’t care, I’m doing it anyway.” Another factor that can affect
our choices are emotions – fear, love, loneliness, anger, hate, joy
– yet establishing our priorities and core values will even effect how we
treat each of those emotions. Let’s look at some choices and ask why.
• A very wealthy actress shoplifts a necklace, one she could
easily afford – yet the choice she made could put her in jail
and end her career.
• A prominent coach does not self-report NCAA violations,
causing severe penalties and a huge loss of money.
• A very high ranking politician has an affair causing a divorce
and the end of his career.
Had each weighed the choices, and checked priorities and core values,
they would have different lives today.
Many successful businessmen have stated after a great accomplishment
that it was the right thing to do. Often, their actions created heroes and
grew a business exponentially.
One more factor that comes into play when making choices is risk.
As we have seen, all choices have consequences or rewards. Again,
understanding priorities and values, even risks pale, for when you are
passionate about a choice and it falls in line with your priorities and
values, great things can happen. I gave a couple of examples of negative
outcomes or consequences from choices that were not in alignment
with values. Here is a success story of a choice made that involved
great risk.
I met Roy Williams in the late 1970’s when he came to the University
of North Carolina to be a part-time assistant coach and was to receive
no pay. Why would a person quit a paying job to work for nothing,
especially considering he was married with children? I am sure many
were saying, wow, what a poor decision or choice. It was a big risk,
but Coach Williams wanted to work under and learn from one of the
best – and Dean Smith was that coach. His first year, Coach Williams
had to sell basketball posters and deliver films to the TV station to sup-
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