Interesting ideas with Stan Hustad

Be careful it's a hot mic world and the microphone is always on Something you need to know today

It happens all the time today and it even happens to people who should know better and probably do. But they forget what is really true, and that is the microphone is always on. Well as an old radio guy let me tell you some stories about that and about what happened yesterday.

That's not what's important. What's important is for you to understand that if you are in the business of life today that the way you will be successful is by remembering that you indeed need to learn how to live what we call the marketing life.

Let me describe it for you and then tell you how I can help you and then give you an offer to help you be a bit of a guru and perhaps a teacher and marketer too.

 someone has argued that there is no such thing as modern or contemporary wisdom.  If it truly qualifies as wisdom it has been around a long time and is often times found in olden ancient sources.  Well today my lesson is from a book that's 99 years old and it has been very helpful to me in dealing with the pressures of modern life right now.

So with your permission may I take a few minutes to talk about pressure and power because we're going to need it because 24 is going to be a most challenging year and it will not likely be a better year and so how can we be better people better business men and women and better in what we do and how we serve others by the end of this year.

Perhaps we start by welcoming some pressure challenges and difficulties into our life starting now.

Stan

2024 will not be a very good year unless something radically almost transformationally happens because somebody does something or becomes really better in the leadership of our institutions and government. Well my friends that probably is not going to happen. What we had in 23 is probably the same bad stuff that we we'll have in 24. Maybe worse!

So we have to with renewed determination and perhaps a greeting and grinding of teeth say, if it's to be it's truly up to me. So let me begin by asking you to take a transformational audit of your life right now, And then learn something that will help you in your career in business and that is how to do a Super Bowl commercial.

This will be a challenging year.  There are too many things going wrong and there are two few things people or institutions that you can trust... So it will be tough. I know that personally but I also know that part of it is my fault and it'll be a tough year for you some of it will also be your fault. But often times we have to understand with sometime just called Kairos.  A Greek originated word that means crisis but also means opportunity ..... One of the secrets of successful living is to seek to be good enough for smart enough or tough enough to turn a crisis into the opportunity.

I hope I can do that for myself and perhaps for you and so in a little bit of self talk this program with all of its ideas and energy is directed back toward me,  because it's about something that I know quite a bit about but often times don't know how to do it,

It's that powerful word impact...So forget your fuzzy purpose statement in mission messages and all of the other metrics that you do. Define the word IMPACT for you and then spend a little more time this year figuring out how you might do that and then do that.

Maybe I can help you.

Stan

,,,It's probably not going to be a very good year, in fact it could be quite bleak and difficult.  So let me just suggest forget the resolutions and just have a few simple personal aspirations that will at least give you a better sense of yourself and perhaps help you to express yourself better.

This is the year that you become quite good at self expression and how you speak how you perform, even how you dress and learn how to be a bit of an actor, know how to use the radio stuff and maybe even the camera and video in your life work and business for sure.

Every business is going to need somebody or someone or maybe more than one to be the audio team for all of the business communication marketing and advertising.  The journalist and writers are getting fired thanks to AI but the same companies are hiring audio teams.

See, you learn more here by accident than most places by design in this program is no exception.

Thanks Stan

I confess that I have seen a lot of New Year's Eve days come and go and of course I have far more in my past than I certainly have in my future. And of course I've forgotten most of them but I do remember at least two of them, and one I did not like very much when I was young but I've come to appreciate it more and more...

But there was another years ago when I lived in Europe and listen to the BBC on New Year's Eve and heard a poem and a prayer that touched me deeply, and it's one that I always think about at this time every year. May I share it with you this evening.

Thanks

Stan

Well the title tells the tale, at 4 o'clock in the morning I was having a great start to the day and everything seem to be going OK, even better than OK and by 4 o'clock in the afternoon I was going through the darkness of one of the worst days of my life. So I will have to spend a lot of time to recover and I plan to do that.

But I knew very little about her until I discovered that Taylor Swift is not only a popstar but a real model of entrepreneurial and life success and so I decided to talk about her instead today.

So let's do that!

Stan

 I know that many of the professionals are saying, Stan your title is to long ... They should be short sharp into the point.  I know that but sometimes like every rule they should be broken and I Believe that I should tell you just exactly what I'm seeking to do to help you. Because this will help you.

If you take time to think about it the Christmas story and in fact the entire Christmas celebration is all about things that are mysterious. Some of them are even what would be called miraculous which means it's a mystery and you can't understand it or how it could've happened.  And we don't like mysteries ... we like to solve the problems, the puzzles, and know for sure what's going to happen and what's up,

But my friend that's not going to happen. The world is full of mysterious things some of them very good and some of them very bad. Life is difficult and often it is a mystery... So indeed get used to it and perhaps even begin to enjoy it, embrace it, and even use it to become bolder and braver and more confident about the role you might get to play in life.

Because one of the keys to success in life is to be mysterious and to embrace mystery. I guarantee it and let me tell you the story.

Thanks

Stan

Yes, it is indeed one of the best times of the season for me. It's Christmas Day Eve. Almost all of the celebrating and present giving and too much eating is done. And most people are tired and kind of glad that the season is just about over, but also there are thoughts about the time that just passed and perhaps am wondering about what is to come now.

And that is heightened by the fact that 2024 is before us and it looks like it will be a challenging year for most of us. I know it will be for me. So maybe you can join me in just a few thoughts, and I would love to hear from you, about the state of mind heart and spirit that we need for the season that is before us at this stage in our lives.

Thanks

Stan

I remember every year starting to look at the seers Christmas catalog that came usually just before Thanksgiving.  End it truly was what they often cold in the wishbook.  And since our family was kind of poor we knew we weren't going to get everything on our wishes.

I do remember when I asked for a cowboy hat and the play double pistol set that would shoot off paper caps and go bang.   Just like Roy Rogers and all of my heroes that I saw on television in the movies.  To my wonderful amusement and amazement I got it and it is still one of my favorite pictures in my long list of Christmas memories.

Well today I introduce my new friend and partner who is a world-class expert on the western way of life and about the life of the cowboy.  So let me introduce you to Stuart of True West magazine who has stories to tell about the lore and legends and even more what it was really like to live the life of a cowboy. 

Perhaps today we need a lot more people who believe in and live out the cowboy code in life and business.

Thanks

Stan