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  • My Life Skills & Business Books: the what & why of each
  • The Rising Tide of Global Sadness
  • “The Box” —- What’s in Yours?
  • “Getting a New Job” book release!
  • exciting new book release!!! “Tuki (Back in Game with Tweedle & Friends)”

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“The Box” —- What’s in Yours?

November 1, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

The Box holds life’s values, choices, and experiences, its perimeter strung with lights to navigate what a friend calls “all the rest of it.” Decisions and life experiences sort and police what goes in The Box and what does not. Life would be clean, neat, and orderly if everything snuggled perfectly into an assigned place, […]

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Filed Under: Life Skills, Mindfulness

“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

Where Are the Smarts, In Your Head or In the Phone?

March 31, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Who’s your most valuable compadre, a real person or your cell phone? A tongue-in-cheek point to ponder, perhaps, but there is a danger in dehumanizing our lives to the extent we rely on our phones and iPads more than what blossoms inside the mind. I recently watched two TV shows with dramatically contrasting approaches and […]

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Filed Under: 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

Who is in Your Hall of Fame?

January 5, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Who is in Your Hall of Fame? People are, by nature, herd animals, and as life unfolds most of us will meet thousands. The vast majority will bounce off and wash away like beach sand, but some will stick like Band-Aids. A far smaller number have lasting impact and enter your personal Hall of Fame. […]

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Filed Under: Happiness, Mindfulness

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

Simone Biles & The Olympic Game$

July 28, 2021 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

American gymnast Simone Biles stands four-feet-eight inches tall. By stepping aside during this year’s overhyped money grab Tokyo and the IOC call the Olympic “Games,” she towers like a giant. Make no mistake what this fortnight of international competition bloated with made-up events detached from the competition designed by ancient Greeks truly is: a commercialized […]

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Filed Under: Mindfulness

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

Who Is In Your Hall of Fame?

May 25, 2020 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

People are, by nature, herd animals, and as life unfolds most of us will meet thousands. The vast majority will bounce off and wash away like beach sand, but some will stick like Band-Aids. A far smaller number have lasting impact. Only a few will enter your personal Hall of Fame. Who are those people? […]

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Filed Under: Happiness, 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

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