The Beginning
My name is R. Gene Scalf. The beginning of my journey was in Corbin, Kentucky in 1932. I Graduated from Holmes High School in Covington, Ky. in 1950. After separation from the Army Security Agency in 1956, I remained in California and entered college at the Vanguard University where I met Geri, who became my wife in 1959. After bouncing through a lot of life’s pot holes—learning the lessons of each—I chose to become a Student of Life, learning all I could learn from life itself. Sir Winston Churchill once remarked: “Many men in life will stumble over a truth, pick themselves up, dust themselves off and move on as though nothing had happened.” I determined not to let that happen to me. I would pause at each pot hole and learn the lesson what it would teach me.
Since 2000, my home has been in Colorado Springs . Hopefully, you will be reading my blogs and I wanted you to know a little about the writer. I am and have been for ¾ of my life a self-employed business man of one business or another. Some ventures were successful and some were just training experiences; however, each made a great contribution to who I am today. Someone (maybe me) once said: “We are to enjoy our successes, and learn from our mistakes.”
The pride of my life is my family: a wonderful wife, 3 fantastic daughters, and 6 grrreat grandkids—from 8 ½ to 22 years of age. 3 boys and 3 girls. My gratitude goes to each of them for allowing me to be who I am, do what I do … and they still continue to love and support me. WOW! It doesn’t get any better.
Over the next so many blogs; I will be talking about the subject of “The Secrets of Success.” I really should not call them secrets for they are not hidden. They are life principles that are available to anyone who will take the time and spend the effort to look for them.
Contrary to many opinions, success does not just happen if you’re lucky … neither does failure just happen if you’re unlucky. We either plan for success or we don’t plan for success and we get failure. Those who neglect to learn the principles of success will actually be planning for failure. Einstein once said: “There is no darkness, only an absence of light that we have named darkness. There is no cold, only an absence of heat that we have named cold.” I say: “There is no failure, only an absence of success that we have named failure.”
IF you are interested in learning positive success principles that will change your life; continue to read the “Secrets To Success” future blogs.
If there is anyone who is motivational, it is Gene Scalf. I believe Gene could inspire a snail to rival a jackrabbit. He is truthful first, which upon accepting, opens the door to wisdom that puts our butts in gear. Peace! Porricelli