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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

Second Interview with Ed Molitor’s “The Athletics of Business”

June 25, 2021 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

It’s always nice to be a guest on someone’s show, especially so when you are asked back a second time. Following my recent return to Chicago-based Ed Molitor’s interview program, here is the link: https://theathleticsofbusiness.com/podcasts/with-ted-simendinger2/ We covered many topics, including Managing the Worry Circle, pro selling, story construction and my writing process, plus the great […]

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Filed Under: Life Skills, Mindfulness, Pro Selling, Sales, Storytelling, Training & Teaching, Writing

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

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

Social Distancing: How to Avoid Ending up in Freakadelphia

March 23, 2020 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: Leadership, 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

Life Without a Cell Phone? Possible or Impossible?

January 9, 2020 by Ocean Palmer 4 Comments

The Case of the Vacationing Cell Phone Could you go a month without one? I have … and it’s not all bad. Matter of fact, it will be six weeks tomorrow. If my friend Aleena Imran succeeds in her persistent attempt to get it released from customs in Pakistan and shipped back to me in […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Communication Skills, Life Skills, Mindfulness

New book in 2020!

January 9, 2020 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

New Release this Summer! This is a working cover draft for my upcoming book, a life skills guide that explains in story form how to protect our heads in a world of increasing digital chaos. The book is written to be a fun, breezy read that utilizes the popular Ocean Palmer storytelling style to “net […]

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Filed Under: Life Skills Tagged With: Guarding the Castle

From Pakistan: The Big Five

October 24, 2019 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

One of the greatest gifts of my work is where it takes me and the people I meet. Together we make the world a little bit smaller, a responsibility I own whether crossing the big pond going east or west. I was recently coaching an executive in Pakistan who asked my age (three decades his […]

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Filed Under: Coaching, Happiness, Life Skills, Mindfulness

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