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Book Review: The Millionaire Mind by Thomas Stanley

Eli Gillespie September 16, 2025 Books, Personal Development Leave a Comment

Here’s a quick review on a book that had great impact on me.

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Book Review: So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport

Eli Gillespie September 01, 2025 Books, Personal Development Leave a Comment

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Book Review: Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Peter Kaufman

Eli Gillespie August 25, 2025 Books, Investing, Personal Development Leave a Comment

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Book Review: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell

Eli Gillespie August 20, 2025 Books, Business, Personal Development Leave a Comment

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Book Review: The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone

Eli Gillespie August 19, 2025 Books, Personal Development Leave a Comment

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I Want To Work Out But I Don’t Want To Get Too Buff

Eli Gillespie June 21, 2016 Business, Personal Development 2 Comments

Have you ever heard anyone say this?  The most recent occurrence for me was last year when my wife and I were discussing joining CrossFit.  She wanted to get in shape, but not too much.  She didn’t want to wake up one morning finding herself unable to fit into her shirt on account of her huge lats.

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You Know What You Need? A Nap.

Eli Gillespie June 07, 2016 Humor, Nostalgia, Personal Development 2 Comments

Last Saturday on our every-other-weekly trip to the acupuncturist in Santa Monica, Candace and I had an interesting conversation. (This is what happens when you sit in a car for 2+ hours in awesome LA traffic).  We were talking about how certain things can affect your state of mind.

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Keep Looking Forward – But Measure Where You Came From

Eli Gillespie May 10, 2016 Health and Fitness, Nostalgia, Personal Development Leave a Comment

I was just reading back on a journal of mine from 1999 and noticed I was obsessed with how far away I was from where I thought I should be on the piano.  I had an ideal – to have enough competency to become a touring musician.  I knew I was far from that milestone and reminded myself every night when I wrote.

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Go At Your Own Speed

Eli Gillespie May 02, 2016 Humor, Personal Development 7 Comments

I am slow.  I mean it.  Everything I do is slow.  I think slow, I act slow, I read slow, I work out slow.  I even burp slow.  I’m just slow and everything I do is slow (except eat food).

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What You Do Matters, Self

Eli Gillespie April 25, 2016 Business, Insurance, Personal Development 2 Comments

Why am I doing what I’m doing?  Oh yeah – it was 2001 and I had nowhere else to go.  As a substitute teacher I had the summer off and as an aspiring musician I was drifting about aimlessly.  Aimless and nothing to do: that’s how I got into the insurance business.

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