"What you learn in the evening, you can use in the morning."

 
Raymond L. Newkirk, Ph.D.

Your Road to Discovery

As a unique human being, you need to participate in human progress in your own way, fully alive and involved.  Remaining entrenched in any one perspective throughout your entire lifetime is not a good thing. It is not conducive to discovery.  Taking inspiration from Adrian van Kaam, successful participation in human progress requires you to balance interest with detachment, giving with receiving, creation with assimilation, and consistently practice the art of recollection.

We developed this Site to assist you in expanding your perspective by drawing from the knowledge that you already enjoy and the wisdom you gain from your unending encounter with the world beyond your perspective.

Your life changes every day.  Hopefully, you are not exactly who you were yesterday.  If you are living right, you should have participated in some positive way in your own growth, and perhaps even the growth of another human being.  You do not live in isolation.  Your growth may have been intellectual, professional, or spiritual.  If you are genuinely connected with life, your growth should be in all three capacities.  We initiated this personal development and Learning Site to reinvigorate your motivation to enjoy a truly human life of limitless possibilities and significant meaning.  We designed this E-Books Store to foster your professional, intellectual, and spiritual growth, and even to entertain your curiosity and longing for fulfillment in being an authentically successful person.

Building Upon Your Experience

All your knowledge is born in experience.  This involves the human formation of horizons of meaning from which your progression of facts emerge.  Your basic mode of knowing is not sensation; nor is it reasoning. Knowing comes through your experience-as-a-whole.  This is not merely a subjective event.  Your experience is a mixture of subjective and objective, fact and interpretation, consciousness and thing.  Your experience consists of the act of perception itself and it is you who perceives.  You are more than any single mode of knowing.  I have written the Virtual Learning courses, E-Books, and seminars to expand your experience by broadening your perspective.  The E-Books, V-Courses, and seminars  in our library do not merely appeal to sensation alone, nor do they offer a path to pure reasoning.  Rather they offer our experience-as-a-whole.  Each E-Book, V-Course, and seminar includes thought breaks, examples, models, action assignments, and narratives to enrich your discovery as you build your professional capabilities.       

The E-books, E-Courses, and seminars offered here are drawn from my many years of professional experience as employee, executive, consultant, researcher, academic, and person deeply interested in my growth and the growth of others. As I look back over my career, I genuinely appreciate the content of this learning content and can unequivocally admit that I would have loved to have had this available to me at the beginning of it all.  This learning content would have been a great jumpstart to my career. Having little exposure during the first couple of decades of my life to the richness of content that later paved the way of my career, I am delighted to bring everything together in our Learning Library and offer you a collection of short and powerful E-books, E-Courses, and seminars that will assist you as you pave your own path of professional success.

A Green E-Store

Following the "temper of the times", we designed this E-Store to to be consistent with the current drive for green technology.  This E-Books store is a "Green Store" to the fullest extent possible today.  All E-Books, E-Courses, and seminars are downloadable and all business transactions are online.  Trees are safe here at Systems Management Institute.