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Crouching Tiger, Shrinking Legend

May 12, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

PONTE VEDRA, FL (May 10). I have been eyeballs-deep preparing for a seminar and researching a white paper on narcissism so I took a week off to be a gallery marshal at The Players golf tournament in northeast Florida. South African Tim Clark won, a popular flash footnote fellow that history will soon struggle to […]

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Tiger Woods, Meet Groucho Marx

April 1, 2010 by Ocean Palmer 2 Comments

In one of the most famous of sixteen movies the Marx Brothers made, A Day at the Races, Groucho stars as Hugo Z. Hackenbush, a horse veterinarian who impersonates the doctor of a sanatorium in danger of bankruptcy. Highlights include an insane phone call to Florida, brother Chico selling race tips, Groucho’s nutty medical exams, […]

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Why the World Spins Faster

March 24, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

A friend of mine posed an interesting question: Is it appropriate for someone to use Facebook to chastise a co-worker? To me, it’s not. But who’s to say? The more I study how people use the tool as a blending device that connects work habits with real life, the more diverse their intentions and motivatons […]

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Filed Under: Influencing Behaviors, Jobs, Life Skills, Uncategorized

A Baby Step for Tiger Woods

March 22, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Like most big cats, Tiger avoided deep water during yesterday’s five-minute interviews with ESPN and the Golf Channel. The talk tracks were well rehearsed and virtually identical, which was disappointing. To his credit, Woods took a small first step toward humanizing himself to a world that’s still trying to figure out whether to scorn his […]

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Speedy Boyfriends

March 9, 2010 by Ocean Palmer 2 Comments

There is an adage about how to make a million in the horse business that’s more true today than ever before. “Start with a billion dollars … and stay in.” Racing has turned billionaires into millionaires and millionaires into working men but it’s still a fun way to lose money. Sort of like owning your […]

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The 2010 Oscars

March 4, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Two things quickly before passing out invisible statues: 1) My favorite film of the year “500 Days of Summer” should have been recognized; and 2) By far the greatest acting performance of 2009 is buried in unfair anonymity. British actor Tom Hardy’s spellbinding work in a tiny indy film called “Bronson” was miles beyond the […]

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Dimpled Idiot

February 23, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

note: Despite living in a glass house of my own, I am compelled to roll a boulder toward another. Here is an inescapable truth: I no longer can stomach Tiger Woods. ↓ Watching Tiger Woods pretend to have a “news conference” with no journalists and only invited friends, I couldn’t help but think what a […]

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Five Questions

February 11, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

This is my 5-question interview response for a college publication affiliated with Jacksonville (FL) University. The interview took place Tuesday, February 9th in conjunction with a guest speaking appearance as part of the school’s Alumni Speaker Series. 1.    How did your time at Jacksonville University prepare you for your life immediately after college and beyond? […]

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Why the Dash Matters

February 4, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I’m sorry but I don’t remember which friend I discussed this with. I shall blame that on time or coffee or the scarcity of left-handed tools in a right-handed world. The Dash Theory is an idea we slapped around because of its elegant simplicity. Each of us has a birth year. And each of us […]

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Filed Under: Happiness, Life Skills, Uncategorized

Time Management: Four Slices of Pie

January 8, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

An oft-repeated adage describes three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. There’s far more to that sly smidgeon of observation than first meets the ear. Why does that old quote still ring true? After all, time is a known […]

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Filed Under: Life Skills, Sales, Time Management, Uncategorized

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