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One Million Miles: My Favorite Places

February 9, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Gladness and sadness, weddings and funerals, business meetings and baseball tournaments. Fishing trips and horse farms. Cons, thieves, murders, and rip-offs. Airport security and insecurity. Flight attendants, lousy food hot and cold, organized crime, currency exchanges, and slovenly dressed, poorly behaved travelers who do not travel well. Welcome to my world, the world of the […]

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Filed Under: Travel

Why Companies Herd Cats

February 8, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

My friends in the staffing and recruiting profession stay relentlessly busy and vital to their organizations because of a universal reality: Not everyone on the payroll cares about the company paying them. Every organization, small or large, is comprised of good workers, great actors, and others who vacillate between the two. Depending upon how much […]

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Filed Under: Jobs

Why the Dash Matters

February 4, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I’m sorry but I don’t remember which friend I discussed this with. I shall blame that on time or coffee or the scarcity of left-handed tools in a right-handed world. The Dash Theory is an idea we slapped around because of its elegant simplicity. Each of us has a birth year. And each of us […]

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Filed Under: Happiness, Life Skills, Uncategorized

Why Good Workers Get Stuck Doing More

February 2, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I am proud of my website and readily admit I had very little to do with its design or construction, other than answer questions for a tremendous thinker, Boston’s Steve Bennett. Bennett specializes in author websites. He developed my cocktail napkin design after interviewing me for an hour with my publicist and one of his […]

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Filed Under: Jobs, Sales

Why Road Rage Occurs

January 31, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

My college roommate has never been an easy guy to cohabit with, a lesson his wife soon learned. He can be obnoxious. She is strong-willed. They make a fiery pair. A few years ago he was griping about needing some space. She took his dinner plate—complete with steak and baked potato—opened the kitchen door, and […]

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Filed Under: Happiness, Influencing Behaviors, Life Skills, Worry

How to Connect with People You Meet

January 29, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Ever meet someone and click instantly? Or face the opposite problem: struggling to have an easy, unforced interaction? Chances are you’ve done both. A big reason this happens is due to how the mind operates. People tend to think in one of two directions, either concept-to-detail or detail-to-conclusion. Most people can flex from one direction […]

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Filed Under: Influencing Behaviors, Jobs, Life Skills, Sales

How I Create A Story (part 1 of 2)

January 28, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Part I: Thinking Up Storylines & Characters It’s a long way from writing one-liners to scripting novels and screenplays but anyone who writes along that continuum faces the same challenge: the creative process. Mine has evolved over time. I recently began a new screenplay about a comedic premise I’m very excited about and thought it […]

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Filed Under: Part 1 of 2, The Creative Process

How I Create A Story (part 2 of 2)

January 28, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Part 2 of 2: Story Construction & Sequence In three-act structure, Act One introduces the protagonist (hero) and the dilemma. Act Two includes the stuff involved with the growing problem. Act Three is the resolution. Comedies have happy endings. Tragedies do not. Happy endings enthrall me. Tragic ones I abhor. I want the world to […]

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Filed Under: Part 2 of 2, The Creative Process

How I Got My Pen Name

January 26, 2010 by Ocean Palmer 2 Comments

When my life skills book Managing the Worry Circle was released, I wasn’t totally surprised to receive global radio and coast-to-coast TV requests to talk about it. Worry is a universal subject; we all do it and people tend to be curious about learning why. Far more surprising than interest in the book was the […]

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Filed Under: Pen names

What’s Your Head: A Castle or Open Bar?

January 25, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

The more things we invent to simplify our lives, the more complicated they’ve become. With sensory assault bombarding us with relentless velocity from every conceivable direction—and some new ones COMDEX hasn’t unveiled yet—it’s no wonder heads are spinning. Which begs the question, “Is your head getting crowded, too?” Since competition for mindshare is increasing—some of […]

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Filed Under: Influencing Behaviors, Life Skills, Worry

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