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“Having It All” … What Exactly Is It?

April 8, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

What Is All? Years back I met a twenty-something new to our organization who told me she moved to town intent on “having it all.” Her statement was quick and decisive so I asked a clarification question, “What is all?” Her answer was immediate and definitive. “Husband, house, picket fence, baby, all of it,” she […]

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Filed Under: Influencing Behaviors, Life Skills, Mindfulness

Why the World is Getting Louder

February 18, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Woke. Cancel. Gaslighting. The world is angry, seemingly louder by the day. The why is simple: Everyone has a microphone and instant access to Internet pulpits and megaphones. If the entire world has microphones, it stands to reason the volume will increase. As common as those three words are as they take turns in today’s […]

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Filed Under: Influencing Behaviors, Life Skills, Managing Conflict, Mindfulness, Self Promotion

Respect: Savannah Bananas vs. Linden Entertainment

February 9, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Yesterday provided an interesting contrast in emotional experience management. In the space of a couple hours, I heard from the Savannah Bananas baseball club, a small group of professional business coaches assisting college entrepreneurs, and Linden Entertainment. Linden is a talent agency that represents a handful of actors.  The Bananas are owned by an innovative customer-centric […]

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Filed Under: Influencing Behaviors

How Many Stars in the Sky?

September 10, 2021 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

As the world keeps running sideways a hundred miles an hour, pausing only to take an occasional step backward, digital screens flood crowded global minds with more negative noise than positive. In America, a just announced survey reveals optimism and pessimism are somewhat evenly balanced, a shocking development to hundreds of millions who never dreamed […]

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Filed Under: Influencing Behaviors, Mindfulness

Dealing with Disappointment: The Four Words You Need to Know

April 27, 2020 by Ocean Palmer 4 Comments

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

The Six Steps of the Crisis

April 13, 2020 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: Influencing Behaviors

Making Better Time Choices During Housebound Mandates

March 30, 2020 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: Influencing Behaviors, Life Skills

Ten Ways to Deal with Social Distancing

March 22, 2020 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: Influencing Behaviors, Life Skills

Why the Democratic Debates Help None of the Candidates

August 1, 2019 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

As the Democratic party argues on national television for global consumption about how bad each other is, lost in their behaviors is the foolhardy approach that mudslinging is. The first rule of selling is not to disparage your own products or company. This flock of birds sound more like crows arguing over who gets the […]

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Filed Under: Influencing Behaviors

Dealing with a Difficult Life Event

May 15, 2019 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

The best part of my work is the opportunity to teach life skills and make friends around the world. I am a champion of people and know for certain that regardless where on the planet I wake up, the people I meet will be 93 percent the same as everyone else. One of life’s biggest […]

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Filed Under: Influencing Behaviors, Life Skills

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