: About Me

My name is Orville Burch and I am a strategic planning consultant and sales motivation trainer.

My backgound could not be more unusual. I grew up on a self-sufficient farm where we raised all of our food along with many head of cattle. I left the farm to attend college where I studied biology and earned a PhD. I taught for a few years and at the same time began an environmental consulting business, which became successful. I sold the business to two of my partners and started working for various nonprofit organizations across the United States, including a Native American organization, a homeless shelter, community action, nursing homes, private schools etc.

In 2001 I formed an new unique consulting business that focuses on assisting nonprofit organizations with organizational development. I currently run that business full-time.

In 2006 I wrote my first non-fiction book "Warrior Power: Unlock The Power Within". I am now writing two additional books along with two fiction books.

My passion is ...

writing, reading, collecting antiques and books

I know too much about ...

nothing-I am a constant student of life

My parents always told me ...

I make my own life

My childhood ambition ...

to work with Native Americans

My favorite memory ...

my grandfather spiritual teaching

Why I write ...

it fuels my soul

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

reading "the bookman's promise", watching Survivor or Ghost Hunters, listerning to my friend Brea Lawrenson-she is beautiful and talented

My first job ...

environmental consultant

My best moment ...

the next one

My inspiration ...

my 4 older sisters

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Holding back

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We have ideas about ourselves that we use as limitations or resistance to change or to avoid exploring junctions and opportunities. These limitations are the "terrible-too's" What Are Your Terrible Too's Too fat, too thin, too young, too old; Too short, too tall, too shy, too bold; Too lazy, too ambitious, too strong, too weak; Too smart, too dumb, too adventurous, too meek; Too rich, too poor, too white, too black; What is your excuse too-jour that is holding you back?

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