How to Become A Professional Speaker
Welcome to the exciting and lucrative world of professional speaking! There are many fields where you may earn a great living as a professional speaker. Corporations and associations throughout the...
View ArticleTime is Our Most Valuable Commodity
Time is our most valuable commodity, bar none. Time is the most valuable thing we own, but it is the thing we are most often wasteful with. We cannot regenerate it, rejuvenate it or re-invent it- once...
View ArticleFamily and Friends, Nothing is more important
Nothing is more important than the loved ones in our lives, and I am in particular talking about the people in our everyday lives that we often take for granted- the ones we assume are always going to...
View ArticleFaith
And I am not necessarily talking religion here- if you are a religious person that is fine. I am talking about faith in something other than yourself, faith that you are not alone, faith that things...
View ArticleFinancial Aid for the Non-Traditional Student
Troy Evans spent seven and one half years within the confines of a Federal Prison. Despite the obstacles that only prison can produce, Troy was determined that his time behind bars would not be wasted...
View ArticleIt is not important How we come to the events in our lives, but how we Deal...
Once I landed in prison it did not matter how I got there. I was where I was and there was nothing I could do about that. We can look at our past, we can reflect on it and we can learn from it but we...
View ArticleWhy we must see changes in our criminal justice system...
Let me first start by saying that I believe that our criminal justice system is the finest in the world, not perfect but it has no rivals worldwide. I broke the laws of our society and deserved to be...
View ArticleThe First Time I Saw My Son Following My Release-
For those of you who have heard me deliver a keynote, you know that part of my program consists of me sharing that I was released five years earlier than my projected release date. I will not go into...
View ArticleBank Robbery Prevention Starts on the Front Lines
Following a six-month crime spree in 1992, I was convicted of five armed bank robberies and served almost 8 years in Federal Prison. Now a Professional Speaker and Author, I share my past experiences...
View ArticleThe Thief of Productivity and Quality in our Workforce
It is my belief that prison does not necessarily mean steel bars and razor wire. That we all have prisons within ourselves, prisons that are just as confining as the one that held me for 7.5 years....
View ArticleWhat goes around...
What goes around comes around, Divine Intervention, Karma, Fate people have been naming forces behind the paths that we take for millennia. Like I have said many times before, I do not argue...
View ArticleLooking back...
We all made choices to get where we are today. If we stand at the gate of change and look back, some of us can pinpoint an exact moment when things started to go wrong. For others, that moment may be...
View ArticleThe Power of a Child...
Sometimes the power that you need comes in small packages. For me, it was the hope of a child. Great things can be learned from children. Remember when you were a child? Did you believe that you could...
View ArticleAwakening...
As I mentioned in previous articles, my son drove the first phase of my awakening. When I discovered that I had this power to influence Eric in a positive direction it gave me a renewed sense of...
View ArticleHope is a Powerful Thing
Hope is a powerful thing. It has near euphoric qualities, but hope alone cannot get you to your goal. Following my arrest, I had spent the following eight months waiting for sentencing in a federal...
View ArticleChallenges will always present themselves
The moment of my release, I was filled with overwhelming happiness. I had learned valuable lessons and I had succeeded. I was drug free and educated, I had my family back, and I had my whole life ahead...
View ArticleWhy Should You Go To College?
Who said you have to go to college? Cmon, lets face facts. If everyone went to college, who would run the fast food restaurants? Who would drive the taxis? Who would collect the trash? Dont get me...
View ArticleWhat Killed Jack Rabbit? Subject: Success, Sales, Leadership, motivation
On the way home the other day, I was scanning the radio stations trying to find something to take my mind off the long drive and the annoying traffic. I live in Atlanta, so when I say annoying traffic,...
View ArticleSuccess: My First Trophy Subject: Success, Winning, Sports, Motivation
Growing up I played a lot of sports: football, basketball, baseball, hockey. Now granted, these were always street sports and never as part of any organized event. As I moved into my late teens I...
View ArticleWhy Things Don't Change Subject: Success, Motivation, Change, Initiative
A friend of mine the other day began talking to me about much he wanted something to change in his life. He didnt know what. He just wanted something to change. So I asked him if had at a minimum an...
View ArticleSuccess Your Way: Frank Sinatra Was Right Subject: Success, Motivation,...
A week ago I did a keynote speech in Los Angeles, California for the telephone company Verizon. The keynote went extremely well. I stayed afterwards to sign books for the group which lasted over two...
View ArticleEvery time I want a cigarette I read or think about this story.
On Monday (8/1/5) I received an e-mail from a close family friend who said his Mother (with whom I was even closer) was dying of cancer and said "Mom told me you promised to visit her before she died."...
View ArticleSuccess a Matter of degree Subject: Success, Motivation, College Degree
I scolded a good friend of mine the other day; I was tired of his whining. He doesn't have a college degree. For years he's been talking about how much he wished he had gotten a college degree. Now,...
View ArticleBlink - Trusting Yourself to Make Decisions Subject: Blink, Selling, Decision...
Malcolm Gladwell, author of the Tipping Point wrote a book called Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. The premise of Gladwells book is that sometimes we know more than we think we know and...
View ArticleGet a Map: Success on the North-side of Life Subject: Success, motivation,...
I was talking to my friend Mark who lives in Las Vegas. I've known Mark from our college days at the "Institute". Like me, Mark was born and raised in Chicago. We were on the topic of empowerment and...
View ArticleSales People are Not Bill Collectors Subject: Selling, Account Payables,...
The other day Im in a meeting with my staff where we were going over next years sales projections and profit margins on our product sales. As the CEO of a company, my job is to insure that sales are...
View ArticleFrom High School Dropout to...
I'm often asked "Glenn, you're a Motivational Speaker with two college degrees, and a multi-million dollar sales company, but you were once a high school dropout. What made you go back to school and do...
View ArticleAnother Lesson from the HS Dropout
Someone asked me today what I do when I have "one of those days." The day when nothing goes right. Nothing goes according to plan. One of those days that turns into the next day. When you feel like...
View ArticleSpeaker offers motivation for life. Glenn Burke talks with inmates about...
Inmates at the Larimer County Detention Center got a reminder Thursday that they have control over their lives and their future, a message some of them said served as a good reminder.
View ArticlePhilosophy on Education
Philosophies, educational or otherwise, vary from person to person, and I, too, have mine. Statistically speaking, I should not be an educator, let alone have lived past the age of 22. I was a high...
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