Set Up a Learning Resource at Home and at Your Place of Business with Both Personal and Professional Development Materials
by Denis Waitley


Every office conference, lunch, exercise, and recreation room should be filled with personal enrichment materials including videos, audios, books, magazines, newsletters, software, TV and internet programming.

Convert a special area of your home into a learning center, especially if you have children. The trend globally is to combine a coffee house like Starbucks, with bookstores like Barnes and Noble, to create a relaxing learning environment. In the twenty-first century, gaining knowledge will blend into our lives as part of our leisure time. There are several ways to create more of an ongoing learning environment at your place of business. Many companies are providing TV and internet access to personal development programming, asking employees to volunteer to read a specific trade or business magazine and clip or scan articles relevant to the organization. Regular e-mail dispersals are also popular.


In today’s fast-forward, knowledge-based world, if you’re not moving ahead you are falling behind.

Action Idea: Make two files in your computer: one for personal development and one for professional development. Download MP3 files, articles and e-mails that educate and inspire you in these files. You also can scan articles from magazines into these files. Look at these files at least once per week.

Winning: It's All in Your Head by Denis Waitley


Learn about attaining a winner's edge to succeed in reaching goals, overcoming obstacles, and living your life.

If life is a game, it's the World Series, the Super Bowl, and the Olympics. And the winner's edge is not so much a matter of natural gifts as of attitude. Whether attaining lofty goals or overcoming adversity, life's winners are those who believe in themselves and never lose their passion for the goals they pursue.