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How to Manage Your Time

April 29, 2013 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Our waking hours are spent one of four ways. When it comes to time we either: Waste it Spend it Invest it, or Cherish it. Assuming we’re awake 16 hours each day, our efficiency, happiness, and body of work achievements are powered or retarded by accumulated time decisions. Since waking hours are finite, and we […]

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20 Facts to Impress Your Friends

March 1, 2012 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Let’s take a break to bone up on a little history. See how many of these you know, memorize the answers, and spring them on your friends. This is some tough people trivia, but tough is good. Answers follow at the bottom of the column. Alfred Nobel, the Swede whose will established annual cash awards […]

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Why First Impressions are Hard to Change

October 27, 2011 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Relationships strengthen and weaken based on interactions the brain catalogs into three buckets: non-verbal evaluations, voice and tone, and selected words. Therefore a strong first impression goes a heck of a long way toward launching a solid relationship. A weak first impression is very difficult to overcome Researchers at NYU, Stanford, Tufts, and NYU have […]

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Perceptions, part 1 of 3: How Perceptions are Formed

July 3, 2011 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

For the past four months I have been buried in two projects on opposites sides of the world that share an identical key component: managing perceptions. The deeper I’ve disappeared inside this work and research, the more exciting the topic has mushroomed. From a learning perspective, I will break down Perceptions into three segments: How […]

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New Year’s Resolve: 14 Words to Forget

January 3, 2011 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Congratulations, Lake Superior State University! The Lakers do not play football and their Division I hockey team is 6-10-4 (but has sent a dozen past players to the NHL). Their basketball team is 8-3 overall but 2-2 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference South Division. That league ain’t big. Just sayin.’ The tiny school […]

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Why Politics is a Cesspool

November 2, 2010 by Ocean Palmer 1 Comment

It’s an important day today, mid-term election day, and for the life of me I cannot figure out how the democratic process that built this great country has slid so far, so fast, without the Marx brothers somehow being involved. And I mean Groucho and Harpo, not Karl and kin. I am beyond embarrassed by […]

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News Fit for a Monday

October 24, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

So begins another week at the saw mill. In honor of Mondays everywhere, here are ten (true) vignettes abridged from News of the Weird to help you launch your day. 1. You only get one mom In a heartwarming climax to an adopted son’s emotional search for his birth mother who gave him up for […]

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Why Steamboat?

August 15, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Kim Filler is my friend and property manager in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. She asked me to consider writing about why I decided to get a place Steamboat and name it “Bonita Vista.” Here’s what I wrote: I am a storyteller. My stories are built around strong characters and entertaining plotlines. Because of that, I think […]

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July 9th

July 9, 2010 by Ocean Palmer 2 Comments

To say I was a reluctant father would be accurate. I have lacked ambition for many things in life, and back in the late 1980s changing a diaper was one of them. I was often quite blunt about it; I boasted to beer buddies that I wanted my headstone to read, “Here lies Ted. Never […]

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Why It’s Hard to Win the Triple Crown

May 16, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

When Lookin At Lucky won the Preakness yesterday, horse racing’s annual hope of a mainstream hero vanished for the 31st consecutive year. My good friend and business partner Steve Cauthen remains the last man to ride the a horse who swept America’s three biggest races: the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont. Cauthen was a kid […]

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