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Why It’s the Thought that Counts

October 19, 2010 by Ocean Palmer 1 Comment

I just returned from my last Parents Weekend at Florida State University. My daughter is a senior and will graduate next spring. The FSU campus is beautiful, doubly so when the football team wins at home in front of 80,000 fans dressed in garnet and gold. We were lucky Saturday to beat Boston College. But […]

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Why Coaching Matters

September 30, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

It was a normal Wednesday. Hump Day they call it. I straggled home at sundown to see a police car parked in front of the house. A policeman was at the door; another stood against the wall, hidden out of sight. My neighbor had called and complained about my dog barking. She wanted them to […]

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Workers in Transition: Why It’s Important to Reach Out

September 23, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

One of the great fruits of a life well-negotiated is being able to harvest a fair living doing whatever it is you love to do. Saying or writing that is easier than actually doing it, especially now. All of us have had jobs we griped about. Today millions are stuck in jobs they tolerate but […]

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Why Chaplin was Right

September 9, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Late in Charlie Chaplin’s life he was interviewed by longtime CBS reporter Morton. This was a dream interview for Dean — he idolized the great British filmmaker. A lifelong fan, the interview enabled Dean to ask things of Chaplin he’d always wanted to know. Among those questions was Charlie’s secret to success. Chaplin’s famed Little […]

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Optimism vs. Pessimism

September 1, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Since each of us has a spectacularly unique set of personal attributes, I don’t like to generalize but in one important area of life and business — optimism versus pessimism — it is important to understand how each of these behavioral choices impacts progress and happiness. Whenever we discuss optimism and pessimism it’s vital to […]

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Why Silence is Good … and Bad

August 24, 2010 by Ocean Palmer 2 Comments

I was in a client meeting this morning, the only one born early enough to understand the significance of Neil Armstrong’s July 20, 1969 walk on the moon. The moon really isn’t that far away—only about 240,000 miles—and many business travelers fly farther than that each year. But back in the late 1960s when the […]

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A Recent Interview with Jacksonville University

August 13, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

These five questions were asked of me during an interview prior to a recent Florida appearance. Readers often like these type of things, so I thought I’d post this particular Q&A. http://dolphinnetwork.blogspot.com/2010/02/five-questions-with.html

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How to Develop Patience & Why It Matters

July 26, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Patience is the capacity for waiting—an admirable quality that helps us tolerate the gap between what we have and what we want without becoming upset. The word patience originated from Latin, from pati, which means to endure, bear or suffer. People these days don’t study dead languages like Latin; they’re too busy and don’t have […]

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Why People Procrastinate

July 14, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Years ago a friend of mine was struggling to deal with his son’s insistence on procrastinating about seemingly everything that mattered to the father. Putting things off that we can or should do is a situational malady almost all of us experience at one time or another. There are five reasons for procrastination. Here they […]

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How to Stay Happy When Others Aren’t

June 25, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

With less than half of Americans happy at work, and millions more wishing they had a similar problem because they lack a job to complain about, it’s easier than ever to be surrounded by grumps. Just because others grouse does not mean that we should. Our outlooks and attitudes are conclusions we draw. They are […]

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