What do you do?

Are you happy at where you are in life these days, career-wise?

What would you do to improve upon your present situation?

Do you have an idea for a new business or trying to get one started?

A friend of mine, Clint Dantinne, started a dance radio network designed to run on HD radio. The details of all that are complex (and can be found on the website that supports it.)

But trying to start a new business in this economy is tough. I started my hypnosis career about 4 years ago but despite successes of mine along the way these last two years have been very, very difficult.

So again, think about this for a moment. What would YOU do to succeed?

Clint started his new business about 2 years ago and it has been very costly to start and maintain and finding the type of business that he needs is something I can't even fathom.

So backed into a corner (although that's my phrasing, not his) and determined to make this work he has decided to put everything on the line. He is risking it all and is going to do something that I think will set a standard that will be hard to beat and perhaps even record breaking.

Clint is in preparation to drive to every single state in the country and visit every major radio market in each state and pitch his business. That does include Alaska and Hawaii (he can't drive to Hawaii of course but he's going there too.)

Clint doesn't have the type of cash to do this. So he is going to sleep in his car. He'll make use of truck stops for showers, he'll use camping equipment to prepare food instead of visiting places to eat.
He has this so planned out that he has included in his plan a magnetic window screen for his car so that he'll be able to stay in it during hot weather for ventilation and keep bugs out of the car while sleeping.

The trip begins in March. He'll hit the surrounding states first which includes the ones from where he can drive home at night. The trip will conclude in November.

Clint will succeed in his business. But I knew that before he even planned out this trip. In fact, this trip doesn't really even surprise me. It, or something very close to it, is only something that he would naturally do for a very specific reason. He has something that it takes to become successful or at least reach his goal.

I'll write more about what that is the next time.

The information about his tour and his business are here: http://www.danceradionetwork.com/tour

The suspense is killing me

January 29, 2011

Still about two weeks away from Spring Training in MLB. Still a little less than 4 weeks away from my first show in Las Vegas.

I don't want to wish my life away here but I am anxious for both of these events. The Vegas show is currently my NEXT show, which is an indication of how slow it has been for me, thus the time to write this.

Another slow news day in Baseball as players, management and staffs enjoy their last couple of weeks of down time. These weeks are time to clear the head and start preparing the mind and body for the new season.
So slow it has been, in fact, that the biggest story of the day seems to be that Lance Berkman said some unfavorable things about the Texas Rangers and why he didn't sign with them.
Lance, who did not resign with the Yankees signing a one-year deal with the Cardinals, said on a local radio station, "I felt like if they didn't re-sign Cliff Lee that they were going to be an average team, and I feel that's probably what's going to end up happening. It's all about your pitching. I feel like last year was one of those special years where you kind of catch lightning in a bottle and they got hot and they had some guys that I felt like were pitching better than their talent level, and consequently, they had a great year."

The almost 35-year old, listed-at-230-pounds Berkman is coming off of a .248 season where his contribution to the Yankees included a home run. Ironically, his signing with the Cardinals just made his own new team worse.
Ok, well it's tough to say "worse" since he might be a valuable bat off of the bench. That's just his best projection on that roster right now. He won't play first with Pujols there and Matt Holiday, Jon Jay, and Colby Rasmus are slated to be the starters in the outfield.

He'll get 8 million dollars to watch his team from the bench take him for a ride to the NL Central title. While he might have been less than wise to insult the players and fans of the Texas Rangers, one can't question the wisdom in signing that deal.

If it was me, I hopefully wouldn't care about the team for which I played. If I was blessed enough with that sort of talent I would hope that I had the humility it takes to be responsible to have such a blessing.

Unless it was the Brewers. Come on, Milwaukee? Have to draw a line somewhere.

Did I mention that it was slow in MLB?

I am working on a new hypnosis show routine. I have decided to retire the main skit of my show. It is with some sadness that I do so since I wrote it and it helped make a lot of people laugh over the last 4 years. But I need to post some new video and a lot of what is up there (and linked to on this page) get to be the same thing.

Some of the things that people do in my hypnosis shows are funny simply because of their reactions though. So the problem with scripting something is keeping that in mind to the point where I can get people to react differently and do different things in response to the new outline. For example, I can write a script 14 ways that ends with a nasty smell to which people respond. The scripts and stories could all be original but the volunteers are still just reacting to a nasty smell. Fine and funny in person in the context of a complete show, but to cut out highlights for the web, its still just someone cringing because of the smell.

Ground Hog's Day, my favorite holiday is next week. I might make my first-ever trip to Punxatawny to see the famous ground hog, Phil, himself. I am fairly certain that he will tell us that winter still has quite some time left in it.

January 28, 2011

I've bounced back and forth between the subjects about which I would like to blog; baseball and hypnotism. I am big baseball fan and I am a hypnotist.

Finally I figured that instead of doing two different blogs, I would write two in one and thus the new name of this blog - Basenotism.

The name of the blog might very well change too. I am interested in other things, of course, and may include them here. For example I am interested in talking about movies so the name could change to basemovinotism, or some type of mixture of the three.

It doesn't really matter if its likeable or not. It's original and that's what matters.

Everything is slow right now so there is not a whole lot of which to speak. There is no need for background information or for me to write 100 pages on what I have already experienced and thought about baseball and hypnosis. Those thoughts and ideas can be filled in along the way.

One interesting story of note in the baseball world broke yesterday though. Gil Meche, a pitcher for the KC Royals, is quitting baseball.

I know, right? Gil Meche was in baseball?! Go figure!

Well he was until the other day when he decided to hang it up. Apparently he realized he probably shouldn't be in baseball any more given how miraculous it was that he was there anyway.

But Gil was owed 12 million dollars on the remainder of his contract.

Rather than try to hang in there somehow and get paid for what was agreed that he owed, he claimed that he was not worth 12 million dollars and is not taking it.

What? Wow! That is a man with actual character and now I am sad he is leaving baseball! How ironic that turns out, huh?

Gil should be ok even though he is not accepting the 12 million dollars. He has made 50 million dollars playing baseball and I would imagine that he is set for life. (He better be!)

Three cheers for Gil Meche and best wishes for whatever he does from here. Hopefully it will be working with younger professional baseball players.