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Summer movie reviews: 26 films, one sentence each

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As summer unfolds we are typically rewarded with better movies. Three of the 26 reviews below earn my top score, a “high-5”, a 5-finger rating. Sprinkled in are a few duds that feature worse storytelling than Ryan Lochte’s fable to the Brazilian police. Below are 26 film reviews from July and August, each summarized in a single sentence. Films are rated on […]

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Ocean Palmer Sales Excellence: A Quick Whiteboard Explainer

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Sales Excellence: The Core of My Work I despise the term “sales training” as a descriptor for what I do because my work is unique, people-centric, and research-based. I frequently opine to those who call it ‘training’ that I am not a trainer because you train dogs and train seals, but my work is different: I develop people. Salespeople are my specialty: […]

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College Program: How to Manage Stress & an Overly Crowded Head

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Note to Self: Your Head is Not an Open Bar! We begin with the Minions, famous truth-seekers and walkers of the sort of straight and sometimes narrow: With more portals into the mind than ever before, and digital permeation creating cranial confusion with record with seeming 24/7 relentless frequency — campus stress is up, unhappiness […]

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Managing the Worry Circle: Seminars & Consulting

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  Based on Ocean Palmer’s internationally popular life skills book “Managing the Worry Circle” (How to Improve Your Life by Worrying Less), Worry Circle seminars are available for corporate and institutional scheduling.  A national TV guest on every major network and thousands of international radio shows, Ocean Palmer teaches how the mind deals with worry and how to […]

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Simplified Strategic Planning: Work Smarter, Not Harder

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The American Management Association says 80 percent of strategic plans are never executed. This, of course, translates to a colossal waste of time. Our one-day workshops teach the world’s best process for quickly building strategic plans that are truly “do-able.” The method is fast, replicable, and scalable. We are also available for multi-day facilitation to assist […]

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The Impact of Technology on Behavior & Happiness

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The Impact of Technology on Behavior & Happiness Two-minute Whiteboard Explainer My new book by the same name (released by Crossroad Press in all formats under my “Ocean Palmer” pen name) has fed the creation of a new learning seminar that has proved popular in American and the United Kingdom. A short overview movie of the […]

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One-Day Coaching Seminars & Various Certification Continuums

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My consulting work frequently involves one day “specialty topic” seminars and more in-depth multi-day subject matter certifications. The link to seven different one-day events (with dates to be determined by the client) is here: Seminar-List-per-person-dates tbd Certification programs are available in five specialty areas, the top four of which are on the second brochure page below.  These continuums are: Behavioral […]

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The BREXIT Vote & U.S. Election: The Juggling of Human Emotions

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An interesting web article by Diane Raymond caught my eye and I thought her topic—human emotions—was worth sharing and building upon. In view of yesterday’s stunning BREXIT exodus decision by the United Kingdom, it seems worth noting what emotions are and how the world suddenly finds itself percolating in them. All of us experience an […]

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The Impact of Technology on Behavior & Happiness

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The scientific evidence connected to technology’s relentless encroachment into daily life is irrefutable. It is not particularly encouraging. With more portals into the mind than ever before—computers, tablets, phones, apps, texts, emails, messaging, social media, and more—heads are changing from fortified, protected castles into loud and crowded open bars. And when heads change, behaviors change. We […]

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