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Who Is In Your Hall of Fame?

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People are, by nature, herd animals, and as life unfolds most of us will meet thousands. The vast majority will bounce off and wash away like beach sand, but some will stick like Band-Aids. A far smaller number have lasting impact. Only a few will enter your personal Hall of Fame. Who are those people? […]

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Dealing with Disappointment: The Four Words You Need to Know

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A daisy chain of unrelated topics connected by braided common themes — frustration and disappointment — have led me to repeating the four words we need to keep in mind whenever we face echoing head noise. I feel strongly about all four, and have a printed summary taped to my computer screen as a relentless […]

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The Six Steps of the Crisis

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The globe wallows in unexpected and ill-prepared turmoil, globally wrapped in an ever-thickening waddling of a virus-spun spiderweb by invisible worldwide foes offering no clues to a potential ending. The journey we will traverse is long, uphill, and rock strewn. I see it encompassing six stages: Novelty. Boredom. Frustration. Reality. Panic. Despair. Novelty. For awhile, […]

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Making Better Time Choices During Housebound Mandates

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From what I’ve been seeing, reading, and hearing in discussions with friends on five continents, one of the major challenges during COVID-19’s unexpected housebound life challenges stems from what to do with the time that mandated self-isolation creates. For those whose habits and lifestyles enable them to amuse or entertain themselves as a course of […]

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Social Distancing: How to Avoid Ending up in Freakadelphia

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As frustration boils in the USA from lack of preparedness, leadership, it is safe to assume that things will get far worse before they get even slightly better. With state governors looking locally instead of Washington for action-centric steps to protect their people, it is incumbent to heed their warning and self-protect, which also helps […]

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Ten Ways to Deal with Social Distancing

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Travel restrictions and forced social behavioral change will be much harder for some than others. For people who habitually keep their own lives interesting, being sequestered or having movements restricted is inconvenient but not jarring. Folks who rely on action and stimuli to entertain themselves may struggle. In no particular order, here are 10 suggestions […]

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Ocean Palmer’s Top 10 Movies of 2019

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Top 10 Films of the Year #11-#20 Honorable Mentions too   I saw 160 films in the cinema last year, which clearly means bartenders are suffering. Every movie gets a one-sentence review along with a rating from 0-to-5 fingers. Zero means “truly awful” (The Dreaded Fist of Badness), while a 5-finger film is termed a […]

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How to Know if You Are Plateauing

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The first of the year brings discarded pine trees, extra trash to the sidewalk, and increased de-cluttering physically and emotionally. Early January is the #1 time for internet dating website registrations, as well as people filing for divorce. With the job market being as robust as it is, people also get fidgety about how they […]

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