• Write in your books. Don’t be afraid to write in your books. Use your books as working documents. Highlight, underline, and leave notes in your books so that you can come back to it later and go straight to the points that are of key interest to you.

• Organize your books. Organize your personal development resources according to subject and by how valuable the book is to you. This will make it very easy for you to retrieve information later.

• Check out your own books. On the inside of the cover of each of your books, write the date when you last reviewed that particular book so that you know how often you refer back to that book.

• Rank your books. Unfortunately, a good majority of books out there are of little or no value, but occasionally, you will come across books that have some very useful gems of information in them. The best way to organize your books is to give them a rank from 1 to 10, with 10 being the most value to you. Purchase small circular yellow labels from your local office supply store and on the spine of the books and write a score from 1 to 10. By doing so you will know exactly which books have the most value to you when you revisit those informational products.

• Get rid of low-ranking books. Books that have received a low review score from you, according to the above-stated tip, should be discarded as these bring little value to your library and only serve to use up precious shelf space. I suggest you photocopy or transcribe your notes from those books onto your computer and then discard, give away, or sell those books.

• Purchase audio books. Audio books are a great time-saver because you can learn while not investing any extra time during your day towards learning. You can transform your car into a university classroom on your daily work commute. Listen to them over and over again to reinforce the teachings and concepts. When you have finished with an audio book, then archive it in your library just like a book. Now with the popularity of ipods and other portable music players, you can actually store your whole personal development audio books onto your portable music device and take it with you anywhere you go.