Ocean Palmer, Author at Ocean Palmer

Facebook: Cigarettes of the New Millennium (part 4 of 4)

March 16, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Part 4 of 4: Quitting Facebook & the Withdrawal Experience Doing something requires more physical or emotional exertion than doing nothing and quitting Facebook at the end of January proved no exception. While I had mulled the thought of ceasing use since the end of the year, once the seed to stop was planted […]

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Facebook: Cigarettes of the New Millennium (part 3 of 4)

March 13, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Part 3 of 4: Why People Get “Addicted” to Facebook All up, all in . . . is Facebook dependence an addiction? The short answer is no. Not yet. Medically speaking, Facebook overuse, obsession, or preoccupation is not considered (yet) to be a true addiction. While behavioralists work to gather more data, they face […]

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Facebook: Cigarettes of the New Millennium (part 2 of 4)

March 11, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Part 2 of 4: Why People Use Facebook Dr. Brent Conrad, a clinical psychologist for TechAddiction, points out that excessive Facebook engagement can disrupt normal behavior but is not (yet) a recognized clinical disorder. On the positive side, he says, technology tools such as Skype, Facetime, and Facebook allow us to stay in […]

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Facebook: Cigarettes of the New Millennium (part 1 of 4)

March 10, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Part 1 of 4: Why Facebook’s Appeal is So Strong I recently used a Time Magazine self-diagnostic program to analyze my historical Facebook use. In a matter of minutes, having tracked and backtracked through everything I had ever done on the site, here is what the app reported: I had belonged to Facebook for 1,877 […]

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12 Reasons to Love Visiting the United Kingdom

March 4, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I recently revisited the United Kingdom for a couple weeks of facilitating sales classes and sidebar movie meetings in London and Manchester. As I do with every visit, when I wasn’t working I was exploring. I am a poster child for the African proverb that says if you want to move swiftly—travel alone. Doing so […]

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Life Skill Reminders: A Valuable Two Dozen

March 3, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I spent much of February working overseas throughout the United Kingdom. At the end of each sales program I provided each attendee a printed summary of life skill reminders that are built into my work. Since life skills are relevant to everyone, they have proved to be an effective means to teaching business principles and […]

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The Demise of X-Factor & Putin’s X-Factor Olympic Games

February 15, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Whether it’s Simon Cowell’s X-Factor USA or Vlad Putin’s X-Factor Winter Olympics, what makes a show expected to be good do just the opposite and bomb? After three seasons of hype, evaporating ratings, and invisible record sales, Cowell’s singing show has officially been canceled. FOX diplomatically said it has “completed its domestic run.” And, after […]

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Movie Update: “Bonefish” (The Galloping Ghost of Bimini)

February 6, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Due to what I perceived to be highly questionable ethical, moral, and business decisions by the producers who secured this project under what I came to believe were false pretenses, I have regained all film rights from Eaton Square Ltd. (T. Beauregard Rogers IV and Rick Daniels), who had partnered with Foxfield Entertainment, who refused […]

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Success: What it Isn’t . . . and Is

February 3, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Barbara King of NPR recently reintroduced Amy Chua’s inflammatory opinions into the discussion of success in modern America. Chua wrote a book about raising her daughter according to the strict (high) expectations of her own parents, who were Chinese immigrants. Chua now considers herself an expert and recently co-authored a rather nutty column in the […]

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January Movie Reviews: 8 in One Sentence

January 31, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I write screenplays and rarely watch TV, but I love to go to the movies, where great films take me places and bad ones teach me what not to do. Since filmmaking is a team puzzle with a thousand pieces, I am ever vigilant for masterful performances in front of the camera or behind. Below […]

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