January 26th, 2012
Have you ever felt like a fish in a pickle dish? The idea is that you are in a shallow dish gasping for air barely able to stay alive. I truly believe that in United States and other countries I have visited we have more people struggling to keep their lives afloat more than ever before. Our quest here at Basic Missions is to help the healing and the healthy live your life in a state of abundance. We follow the buddhist laws here that say that life is meant to be lived and lived with abundance. If we believe that concept then what are we doing is self-sabotaging the Universe’s effort to fill our lives with joy and ease. Look around at people struggling to live the American dream. What do you see? I see homes being mortgaged to the hilt, foreclosed on and people standing in the food stamp line more and more. Life being lived outside the family means makes the entire family miserable. You all know we are a two income family. But what you may not know is that we live on my husband’s retirement. We save the rest. If we cannot pay cash for it we don’t own it. It is a hard and fast lesson taught to me by my husband by his father Ray and it has served us well for thirty years. I am never wondering if I will have a stocked pantry or be able to pay a house note. Some folks worry every month if they can pay on a house that they had to have but was just that wee bit outside my budget. When we buy a car we pay cash for it. I drive a Suburban and it is not brand new but it is beautiful and I have a nice house. I bought it way outside of town in the country where the prices are lower and I could get a larger home for my money. The point is that it is time for the credit generation to stop. We need to cut those credit cards up, all but one in case of an emergency, and live off what you make. Everyone of us at one point or another will hit an emergency that we need to have help on and that card can come in handy. But as emergency I mean hospital or a wrecked car. Living outside of your means today is dangerous that is not possible in this economic climate. It is time to downsize. Now is the time to turn in that BMW and ten thousand square foot house and get into a family home that is large enough for your family but fits well within your budget. You may ask me why, if I have the credit and I have the ability to make life the dream I have in my head should I slow down. Well the answer is very simple it takes just one emergency or illness to throw you head first into bankruptsy the worst of that nightmare is that sometimes even after backruptsy you cannot pull your life together. So the best lesson you can learn is not to get into this situation in the first place.
How, you ask, do we do that? First we must make a budget and add all your expenses together and keep a ledger. Then take and make sure that your monthly income could cover the expenses. Then make sure you do all the money saving ideas you can. Here are a few of ours.
First if you have the ability join a Sam’s club or Costo. It will save you money in a long run. If you buy 12 rolls of toliet paper for 9 dollars you have spent way to much when for 20 dollars you can get 40 rolls. Beans and rice last longer when bought in ten pound bags and so you can either save up and make one good run or pick up one or two items a month. I save four hundred dollars a month on food. Now, also don’t buy canned or processed foods. Learn to cook it is easy and tastes so much better. Stock can be made from left over chicken bones or vegan stock from the veggies not finished at dinner. Life can be easy, if you allow it to be.
We struggle because we allow our own wants and desires to rule our brain. The ego wants what it wants like a child. When our Ego states that we need a new car of new shoes or home to impress someone else we need to sit down and have a long talk with ourselves like you would with a child. We need to take a moment before purchasing high ticket items and and ask two simple questions. The first is do I need this item, and secondly do have cash money to pay for this purchase. If you do and all your bills are paid. Then feel free to make the purchase.
We as American’s have become spoiled and lazy. We want organic food for non-organic prices we want to live like kings, eat like kings and drive Rolls Royces all on budgets that scream we are in trouble. I have looked at many many budgets in the last month and the sad fact is out of ten people out ten were living three hundred dollars to eight hundred dollars over their budget so in actuality they were paying bills and moving money around but not actually paying the complete bills. Say you have ten bills plus your living expenses. Many people would spend their food money to pay a credit card then turn around and use the credit card to buy their food. That is a big mistake. That is borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. And that is a no no.
Even though you may not have as many things as someone else but you you will have something far more valuable than things you have peace of mind. When you have peace of mind, you have a gift. That allows you to plan your own life and discover you dreams and actually be capable of attaining and financing your dreams.
When I began to dream of building Basic Missions I knew I would need capital to open this operation and run the office. I decided to raise the money I needed to open the office by doing odd jobs and most importantly by saving money. If I saved twenty dollars off my grocery bill I would squirrel it away. When I saved on the electric bill or gas the same thing happened I would squirrel it away in my little coffee can. When I collected the money I needed I ran all the sales and saved a lot of money to finance what I would need for the year. It was lovely. And I didn’t take money off a credit card or a small business loan. That allowed me to have mental freedom and when the grants and money came in during grant season I was blessed to give that money away without worrying about taking a salary or risking a thing.
We talk a lot about manifesting miracles well this is a miracle that is simple and effective that we can manifest it ourselves. Life is a beautiful thing, don’t complicate it by putting yourself into an awful financial situation. Some of the most beautiful miracles in life are within our reach. We don’t need divine intervention since God created a pencil, pad of paper, and a calculator. Some of our most important miracles are within our reach and are within our power. We don’t have to stay on our knees in prayer we just have to put a little hard work and sweat into it. Otherwise as Papa Ray says, “You will feel like a fish in a pickle dish.”
Happy Swimming in the Goldfish bowl of Life.
Callie Broussard-Wheeler
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January 14th, 2012
I am often asked this question…. “You Did What?” But daring to try is the life’s blood of who I am. I decided one late summer’s day, when I had been lying in bed for months recovering from having my left cancerous femur replaced, I would become who I always dreamed I would be.
So as soon as my leg healed I began a ” Save My Soul Technology Business” based on not suppressing myself, ideas of dreams, people pleasing or making life perfect for others anymore was something of the past. Don’t get me wrong this didn’t happen in a flash it took time. But that is fine it is a becoming not magic. In that I also decided my dress, hair, and eccentricities that I had pushed down for years needed to come shining through. If you are going to be yourself, live your dreams, why not live them in technicolor! I was not going to live a life of black and white. I was not a black and white person. I love color the more the brighter the better. I love fashion and fabrics and art so I was going to paint, color or diddle in every manner of art I wanted. I love religion and have pursued and obtained a PhD in comparative world religions and love it. I love to read and I love Siberian Huskies so I enjoy all my time. I do it all in my six in heels and jeans and pearls and sometimes a sweatshirt … that is me.
Here is the reason for this blog today. Are you holding back on being you. Are you internally the girl with the interior dream of having tattoo’s and a mohawk or are you a California Beach Babe stuck in Michigan just dying to be set free. Russel Simmons the music mogal wrote and impressive book called “DO YOU” and it is brilliant. It states that in being the best you you can be you become successful. The one and only collection of cells that will ever house your soul, love and desires, you, become more fully willing to spread wings and become the you God intended. In becoming more fully you are able to dream and live that dream more completely. Mr. Simmons is a lover or yoga and eastern philosophy. He is a brilliant man and if you get a chance read his book. By being himself and not compromising he has turned his dreams into a multi-million dollar reality. Bingo. Finding your true self unleashes your personal power.
Unleashing your personal power allows you do succeed. Yes!
I try to leave my family out of these musing and teaching because my relationship with Col. is the most private and personal thing in my life. It is that beautiful,delightful secret that is only our’s to share. I would however like to share a gift he has let lose on the world and it is inspiring. When I met Col. he was young catholic school boy with big dreams always business minded always an entrepreneur! For his class project in high school he opened a book store in our local high end mall. He catered to the ladies who lunch set and was fabulous at it. When he went to sign the lease on the building he had built in the mall to hold La Bouqineste the mall manager was shocked to find this was a 16 year old kid and a member of Future Businessmen of America student and she had been working with him for weeks! As time passed he was on the verge of expanding into Marksville La. and problems struck the family. Since his father was the co-signer on the bookstore it had to be closed, life goes on, no harm no fowl. It had been wonderful, successful and set the tone for his entire life. Now this man became an officer and a gentleman, and engineer and a special ops troop and then he retired and went to work as a marketing director for Singapore Aerospace. He was the first occidental to be offered a lifetime contract with this wonderful company. So always working on the right side of his brain he was surprised on retirement that his left brain was so fully functioning that he could see full novels in his head as if they were a movie already made! He can sit down at a computer and pound our a novel that is exquisite in it’s multi-layered detail determined to be a masterpiece any great writer would be thrilled with. He paints and he is a great photographer with endless patience. Waiting for the hawk that hunts on our land to get just the right shot. He also writes poetry and thinks in pictures. The point is that he is becoming. In the eighties he became a successful business man that is what was expected; suits, cigars and mega deals, he did that with great success. But now on his own time he is a successful artist. He has always tapped into himself and as Mr. Simmons would say he is making sure to DO YOU.
The question is are you. Are you living the life you dreamed or the life you settled into comfortably. All of us have hidden dreams, we also have mortgages, bills, children and lives that cannot be compromised. Who said you had to compromise anything to DO YOU? Spend a weekend taking photos. Learn a new skill in a community college class. Take some courses in painting or poetry. Write the next American novel to shake the world. And then if you find that you are severely unhappy in your normal life make a five year plan to transition into a new life a new paradigm a shift in your consciousness and life that will allow you to blossom as a person. I have never met with a client that did not tell me how bogged down in life! That they can hardly find a minute for themselves much less find themselves. Well, here is the answer: as much as we love our children, our homes, our jobs, we must love ourselves more. It is life that you are meant to live, your life. The other things are lovely extensions of that life. The happier you are the happier your family will become. Life can be blooming and all excuses can be combated. Most stem from fear. Fear of a spouse or friend or parent who doesn’t believe in your dream or in risk. Risk is hard for people who grew up after World War 2 victory gardens and life were all they had time to concentrate on, survival was essential. However we are luckier. We have learned to find down time.
A man I admire and follow on twitter said yesterday that the modern family watches an average of four hours of television a day. Good heavens that is a part time job. That is the time you need to re-invent yourself take time to ask the big questions and DO YOU.
Antony Robbins was the man who tweeted that so follow him he is wonderful better yet read his book he can get you moving.
Now, I wish you the best of Saturdays. Do take some down time and think a bit on this blog. I wanted to let you know that Basic Missions has gone on twitter so please follow us. Here are our handles.
Callie BasicCallie
Duncan BasicDuncan
Grace HealingBoxes
We would love to follow you so send in those handles and let us hear how you enjoy finding the art or business or dream locked away in you. Just remember as Russel Simmons said DO YOU!
Do It!
Callie Broussard-Wheeler
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January 13th, 2012
For years I have had so many beautiful dreams, they range from work to play. Places I want to see, things I cannot wait to do, diamonds I dream of wearing. I am a girl’s girl, I dream of studying under a great yogi master, while wearing Manolo’s and Liz Taylor’s Diamond collection. Oh, the life. And nothing is impossible. Today, I wanted to talk to you about what your dreams are and why they seem so out of reach. No, I cannot buy Liz Taylor’s diamonds but I can enjoy my own, and no I cannot wear Manolo’s daily but I own a few pair and life is lovely. Dreams are our ticket to the life we need to be living but first and formost you have to understand what it is you really want.
I asked my wonderful Mother who has always given everything to everyone what she would want for herself and do you know she couldn’t answer the question. I think this is not that unusual. I think many men and women put their dreams on the back burner as not to worry them because they have a family to support, or a life to pull back together after healing and other’s needs come first. However even if you are a first class caregiver you have needs and dreams.
Let’s see if we can get those dreams in order and find a way to make them something that is accomplishable. Sometimes the easiest things to do seem so distant. I think that happens in our lives because we have a block. An idea or bigger dream that is pushing to come through and we just haven’t hit on it yet.
Are you denying who and what you really want because you feel to small, to our of the loop, to involved in the life you have right now? Then it is time to make space for all that energy to find a way bubbling to the top. That space and void can only come in the quiet moments in your life. So take time daily and sit in stillness. Allowing a void for the Universe to answer your prayers or wishes.
This year my dear Grace gave me an idea to throw my wishes into the air after burning them on the first full moon. Well instead of doing that because I slept through the first full moon I made a list of all my wishes in my diary went outside and took a tube of glitter and spun around after meditating and prayed that each little piece of glitter would make it’s way where it needed to be and stick. Glitter is incredibly hard to get off things so that is why I choice it plus I had some gold glitter left over from a party and thought it would be fun. I have a big yard and I have searched that yard for remains of the glitter to no avail so I am sure it is doing it’s magic because this year has been the year of dreams. Just take a look at the first 13 days.
Books come out this year in days… as soon as the title of the last book is settled on. I am banking on IT TAKES TWO FEET TO WEAR MY JIMMY CHOO SHOES for the first book and LIFE PIE for the second. Now the dates are out and soon I will have two books on shelves in Barnes and Noble and Books a Million for someone who has worshiped the written word all her life this is beyond a dream.
How did that dream happen well I made a flow chart with Duncan and the handy excel program and followed it and got the book written. Then I sent them to Publishers and the third picked it up. It was not only the glitter but the work behind it.
Now onto bigger things. I am working so much this year. Bookings are coming like mad and life is good. I have some pavement pounding to thank for that but the year is filling up nicely.
I started online conferences and classes and the first class begin in Feb. So we are filling up fast. That is exciting and I cannot wait.
Grace and I are working on some projects that mean working together and nothing can happen with that but success.
Why then am I telling you this? Because I practice what I teach. So pluck those long thrown out precious dreams out of the air and get moving. Write that book, photograph that beautiful site, change the world. You can do it. We have given you so many skills in the past month. Work them and let me know how it goes. We at Basic would love to support your endeavor.
Next reboot may shock you but it will be on Etiquette and Manners. We have lost something there and need to get it back. So get ready to sit straight in a chair and not slouch, know how to set the table, and write a thank you note, when to curtsy and when to shake hands and how to make a proper introduction and answer the phone. These skills that have been lost make you sound and respond in and intelligent manner and only boost your ability to succeed. So thank you for reading and we look forward to you coming back. It should be interesting. Emily Post will be applauding in heaven.
Now get plucky and pull those dreams to you.
Callie Broussard-Wheeler
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January 11th, 2012
This may seem a bit off the topic but in these slow economic times I get a lot of mail asking me the same question,” How can I make money fast online?” The sad truth is that you cannot. Now if you have a particular skill that allows you to work from home and then turn your work in online that would be an option. Here is the truth. I have run this site for Basic Missions for more that ten years. I have not made one cent off it ever. I make money off speaking engagements, classes, and group sessions that we give that allow for the sessions to be a bit more affordable that one on one JUMP STARTER sessions. However, I write and host this online magazine. I think of it as an outreach and a home for Basic online. Many don’t know there is help outside the confines of what a doctor’s office information packet given to you. However we are plugged into the cancer community and have the hook-up on meds and other needs that hope can help.We also have interconnectivity with other organizations that are happy to throw some money at a problem when it falls under their grant guidelines. My grants are very specific. If you have cancer and meet a certain economic situation then we can help you with money. Otherwise we must find help elsewhere. Most of the time we are highly successful but sometimes it can be tricky.
Back to the subject. The best way to utilize your skill set is first to evaluate what you have to offer. Are you a handy man or woman, plummer, or yard man. Do you have educational creditials to start an online business. Just know you are going to have to hit the pavement daily and leave information for your new job and service out in the world. Cyberspace is a fantastic medium but we all have to work and function in the real world. No matter how big you are you must pitch your ideas, sell your books and work with people. This screen can never provide the one on one nessesary to show you at you best only you showing up can do that.
I would like for us to shift our thinking though. In times where computer programmers are being laid off as often as physical labor workers we have to evaluate what we have that is whole and valid to offer the world. People need services that will prolong what they own, repair what they have and make things cheaper than a department store can provide them. Now when I talk of skills I am talking of top notch skills not hobby level skills. Believe it or not cleaning a window can be as challenging as engineering work if no one taught you to clean it correctly and professionally.
Here are some career options. Out of work teachers can apply to help with home school or tutoring programs. If you own a bevy of yard equipment you can begin to market your skills and go to estate agent to estate agent and see if they have someone taking care of their properties they are selling that are on short sell or foreclosure. If you have a strong back you could build fences. If you have always been a stitcher you could make slipcovers and drapes. And if you have no skills you can go from store front to store front cleaning windows and earn yourself some top notch clients. Work is hard. No one can just sit behind the screen of a computer and make money unless you are working in the IT department of a huge corporation. So that is the bad news. The good is that we all have skills. I have a friend who is a supreme gardener. He will come into your yard and start the garden for you. And everyone could use a garden to soften the blow of that grocery bill each month but not everyone is phsycally capable of tilling and clearing the soil.
The point is find your skill set and then work at it. Remember it takes about ten no’s to get one yes so don’t get discouraged and keep working. No job is without value whether you are a professional poet or a yard man. Work within the concept itself noble. People often look down on the person who makes your beds, cleans your home, or cooks your meals but remember without them you could not do what you are doing. All jobs are noble and some of the greatest men and minds in the world held simple jobs. A job that you can do with your hands allows the brain no time to sink into depression. My mother always tells me when life has you feeling blue get up and do some hard labor in the yard or home and then the endorphins will kick in and life will be fine again. In times past people were so busy with true work they had no time for a prosac moment. So let’s get moving and find our skills. And remember no matter what you do make the best of the effort. That is what separates kings for sows ears. Being a man or woman of pride means making the most of all situations and doing a good job. Doing your personal best is something to be proud of so make the most of what it is your doing today. You never know where that may lead you.
The joy is in the doing.
Callie Broussard-Wheeler
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January 5th, 2012
Good Morning Lovelies,
Just a note, all the work on business we have been doing lately is a result of the request from our readers to help them either find work. Reboot their lives safely or help those healing to work. There is nothing fun about only having a life full of meds, and beds and no goals and achievements. In order to have a full life it is important to achieve a goal! I have learned especially the bed bound are brilliant at remaking a world to work for them and have a stellar career right from where they sit: be that on a couch, in a recliner, or in bed. My husband is a novelist and many of the people that work with Basic Missions are healing and are the best people to work with on earth in my opinion. They have dreams and are not afraid of working hard to achieve them. It gives all of us a special and very important view on working and having a life filled with joy. We the healing community as a whole are not our illnesses or our issues. Everyone healthy or healing are people with the same wants and dreams. My dearest friend Grace talks of a shadow life. The life you would have had if you had not gotten cancer or whatever your challenge may be. That shadow life can sometimes bleed into the life you are leading in dreams, desires and absolutely aggravating painful ways. Well, we can take that shadow life and remake it into a life we can live, with challenges. I like that. I love all I have learned from this wise one. She certainly has remade her life. She is a successful novelist and a entrepreneur and if you aren’t reading her musings right now you are missing out on some of the best writing done today. So head over to www.gracequantock.com and be enlightened on the beauty in the world around us. I think most of us think we live a small life. I know I feel as though I do, however my life stretches to the ends of the globe. So perspective is needed and so is planning. But we all live life within the confines of our world whether we are people of the planet or our little hamlet,village or town.
When a person is diagnosed with cancer or M.E. or M.S. or the alphabet of chronic auto-immune diseases their symptoms can range from mild to moderate to miserable. But inside the mind is a vast and beautiful world waiting to awaken the you that longs to live and accomplish. So we need to gather our arsenal of dreams and the tools that allow those dreams to happen and put them to work. When I wrote the post yesterday I wanted it to apply to everyone and I wanted to get everyone’s pulse quickened. It is a new year and a new chance to live the life we design.
Your arsenal may be different from mine. I am a cancer survivor who lives with what is called a lazy cancer. I have a team of people who I dearly love who help me live my dreams. When I met my doctor for the first time I told him all the things I had been working toward doing in my life and he said he would do all he could to make those dreams available. Well he has. From walking my dogs in the park to having a career that allows me to travel the U.S. and this year the globe speaking and sharing the message of Basic Missions. Which is we can give you the tools to rebuild your dreams and start a revolution in your life. Be that a revolution in healing and moving from one conception of yourself to another. Our conceptions shift, then miraculously our worlds change into something clean and glittering.
Here are some of the things needed in my arsenal. A fantastic health care team and pain management strategy, time management skills and a project planner who can get all my work lined up in a nice little organized flow chart to allow for a transition from writing to answering calls for help, to dispensing money or finding money for those in need, to heading out to a speaking engagement. I must have down time, technology free time, worship time and I must eat well and use my food as my pharmacy, otherwise I spend my hard earned money at a pharmacy!! When I would rather spend it on lovely stalks of kale and grain fed beef and raw milk and butter and don’t forget the shoes. In this new year I have incorporated interns, a helping hands dog, and an assistant virtual for now. I pray in March that my plan will pay off and I will have just the person in that job as my personal assistant. All of these things allow me to spend my time wisely and get my work out. I have support groups which at one time I thought was pure hooey now that keep me responsible to someone other than myself for my goals and my life coach Terri Cole who I can call if needed and get rebooted myself. And Jason… last but not least the man responsible for keeping me T.V. ready and he is also an amazing talent.
I never mention my family here. But without my family I could never accomplish my dreams my mother is my sounding board and my husband keeps me moving and makes sure all the rest of the crew runs without a glitch he is the magic behind me, he is the engine that makes Callie Vision a reality. Before he retired he was a major mover and shaker in the aerospace industry and all those tools have come in so handy in building and marketing Basic Missions and making it work. So thank you all.
Tell me what is your arsenal. What do you need to line up, organize, time manage, get you in a place that allows for supreme output on your end and a life on the other side of the office door? And don’t think all these things need to take tons of money. Most are on your computer, interns can come from housing projects that require volunteering to go toward rent while moving from welfare to workfare. Students that need hours in the lab of their chosen profession and family and friends. Be creative when making your arsenal and you will be surprised at what you will find. And if you happen to be ill use your insurance or the local society in your area to find volunteers or send a person a day to help with chores that can free up your time.
I have friends who have cooks, house cleaners, dog walkers and personal assistants without which they could not be who they are. I want you to think long and hard about what should be in your kit to make this year successful. We are working toward a full year of success so planning is particularly important for the healthy or healing. I would love to hear from you. Let us know what you cannot live without. Maybe it can help us move forward with ease so the idea today is to take a day to slow down and get organized. Make the charts, arrange your time, set your schedule and move onto the year of your dreams.
Get Organized. Seize the Day!
Callie Broussard-Wheeler
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January 3rd, 2012
Happy New Year!
Have you heard the world is ending. Well you can bet your ass on one thing the world as you know it just did! We on onto a new and wondrous year and as a friend of my husbands once put it,”if the world ends, it be good, if the world no ends it be good.” Well those words are prosaic if your talking about your soul and we do a lot of that here. But today we are talking about your business and your goals baby! And that means we are off of last year’s minefields and onto this years planting. We take our lessons and leave our old habits in the dust as we race into 2012 with joy and the desire to paint the world peacock blue and dance in the icy air of January buck naked just to know your alive. Life here is about to change as you know it to. I am Callie you all know that and Basic Missions is a vision my husband and I had long ago. Well welcome to Callie Vision a place much like Oz where everyone wears red sequined shoes and dreams do come true. This is the no bullshit and no bellyaches here in this new BasicMissions will allow you to achieve what you want in all areas of your life and still leave room for peace, family and fun.
So let’s get started. First if you are in business or own one; have you got your vision and spread sheet ready for the new year. Where are you going and where are you never going back to. If not get it done Cheeto… there is no time to waste your money is waiting. And let’s make this clear money doesn’t buy happiness but it damn sure puts a down payment on organic food which buys health, investments which help you gain wealth and security and life of no worries which my friend is happiness. SO GO.
There are lots of tools out there to help the budding entrepreneur and these goals and little techno gadgets can also help you lose those last few pounds plan for a baby or make what ever your dream is come true so lets get the hook-up.
First let’s make something clear Twitter is not to let the world know you made another green smoothie or are at a kick-ass movie. It is marketing tool. Sign up to follow the people you want to have following you and as the year goes by retweet or tweet to them make connections. Also get your tweets organized at HOOTSUITE. It will allow you to set up your entire month of business tweets and then walk away. But follow your tweets and make sure you answer you don’t want to miss that tweet from Deepak you have been dying to get.
Now blogging is a place to get your voice out but it is time to narrow down what you do and what you want to do. And say it. Also, let’s start making some money here on these blogs. If you want to offer a class set a date and advertise. If you have followers you have customers. If you are a writer having a readership before the book is published is essential so get to typing little fingers and stop snacking on those cookies. Writing gives your mind and hands something to do when the business is slow and you need to keep moving.
Now, this is essential Business should never be slow if you are slow you are not it the FLOW! You have to do what you love and in doing so that means you will find new and amazing ways to showcase that love day in and day out. So get moving maverick. I can think of ten new blogs now and ten new ways to get the message out about BasicMissions now so what can you do.
One call the paper , be the new business or person of interest in your town.
Call the radio shows in your area… do any of them do call in shows on how to do what you do better… you could be a super guest star…
Call the t.v. shows and repeat above but be ready to go because they may call you when someone drops out and it will be YOU time. So be prepared.
Now to that all important person in your life you Planning Manager. If you and he sit down and plan out your day, month, year time do it. It won’t work unless you work it.
Also.. take time for you. Take time to detox, relax, unplug from technology you can live without a day on facebook. You may keep twirling the phone in your hand but minds need voids to grow so stop the chatter chatterbox and give it the void.
Last but not least in this new world order worship something. Give over to the God or Goddess or Buddha, Jesus or whatever in your life and make that appointment and keep it. The UNIVERSE is real, the entity is real and the laws are more than real so spend some time in deep contemplation with the most DIVINE and life will be fuller. And when things seem at the most down give to others. Life is not all about you butter cup. Donate a day a month or a phone call to someone sick or in need of some love. And give some of yourself. That connection with the divine is setting your karma in motion. So move it.
Now how’s that for a new world. This world is beautiful, amazing, creative, cruel,fair, loving, and life taking. Don’t miss a minute of it.
Our rule for the new year is the past is dead and gone lessons are logged and learned and we are moving on up… So come with us.
We are going to be blogging but I will also be offering classes on attaining your goals and moving you from blah to bountiful. So join me. If you would like to have a private year of lessons and follow-up contact me at Callie4now@gmail.com. My email server is down for a while, normally or after tomorrow check in with me at callie@basicmissions.com Don’t be dismayed if you have to leave a message. I am busy but you will be called back. Private Lessons are 3 calls a month at $99.99 and if you are the first ten to book in the new year it will be $75.00. We will phone and supernova your problems away. Skype is also an option or one on one in my office. Your choice and it depends on where you are on this global community.
Now get moving the New Year has just been born and it needs tending. Hurry and Hurrah You!
Callie Broussard-Wheeler
Life coach, holistic nutritionist and wellness dominatrix.
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January 1st, 2012
GET READY FOR THE NEW YEAR…. TODAY IS A GIVEN, RELAX, ENJOY, MAKE PLANS, TAKE A MINUTE AND GET A SHINEY NEW JOURNAL WE ARE GOING TO WORK THOSE DREAMS INTO REALITY THIS YEAR.
LIFE IS CHANGING HERE AT BASIC SO GET READY. I AM GOING TO NOT ONLY SHOW YOU HOW I MANIFEST MY DREAMS INTO MIRACLES BUT I AM GOING TO WALK YOU THROUGH YOUR OWN JOURNEY… ARE YOU READY…..
BE READY FOR THAT WHICH YOU ASK FOR YOU ARE GOING TO GET IT.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! CALLIE BROUSSARD-WHEELER AND THE BASIC MISSIONS TEAM WORLDWIDE.
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December 18th, 2011
Tis the season for joy, love and happiness. I was just enjoying my Sunday waiting for cookie dough to set up and be ready to cook and saw something that sparked this blog. Col. and I were watching Home Alone 2, and young Kevin has a moment with the Pigeon Lady in Central Park where he says,” Don’t worry I won’t forget to remember you.” She retorts, ” Don’t make promises you cannot keep.
Well, as the human race we have forgotten to remember a lot of people. I think of Christmas as a time of joy, my family is blessed we have shelter, food, and all of our needs met. Lord only knows we have things we don’t even need and make lists for things we don’t need but want. How blessed are we! Often at Christmas or on Hanukkah we forget to remember those who are less fortunate.
The small Christ child was one of the less fortunate he was homeless and born in a barn. A barn. The people of His time had no more pity or thought for the homeless pregnant Mary than we do the people on street corners holding signs for help. Can you imagine the begging the bartering that Joseph had to do in order to get the privilege to bring the Christ Child into the world in a barn. I bet the whole night he was mucking stalls and feeding animals and making sure all were locked in the stable with the Holy Family. We tend to romantize what happened but honestly it was not much different from today. Remember Rome was the largest empire on earth until today. Hotels or Inns were full, people were traveling for the holy days of E.I.D. and Hannukka. Everyone had places to be families to worry with and the homeless well, the poor will always be there right. However, this time the poor was the Holy Family. We have all been taught that Jesus came into this world to live as a man lives. No cutting in line or easy way out. Obvious Mary and Joseph were learning that the hard way. Well, He was brought into this world into extreme poverty. The remarkable thing is that even the Holy men or Magi recognized this child as a child of God. He was to be a remarkable and endless source of goodness and joy, and love for all mankind. It is lovely to think that in the end before Joseph had to take Mary and the Baby Jesus off to Egypt he was gifted with the most expensive gifts in the world.
Those kings the Magi provided a safe and paid environment for the Christ to grow up with a safe beginning. Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh were highly prized and could be sold to finance the trips and the needs they had that were immediate. Like a warm place to stay, food and traveling expenses. We don’t hear a lot about where they went after the birth, but thank God he provided Joseph with the ability to make it right. To give them blankets, food and comfort.
Joseph is often the unsung hero of the Nativity story. He had to really reach deep down and find the faith in his love. A young girl who explains that she is very pregnant and he takes her and loves her as his own. He raises Jesus as his own and believes the dreams that God sends him and knows that Jesus is the son of God. He makes a choice to believe the best not the worst. And he has to go through hell doing it. Most women in the middle east today and then would have been disowned and stoned by a family member the person who had gotten them pregnant or was accused of getting them pregnant killed in an honor killing so we have bravery, courage and kindness and true love all wrapped up in this one man.
Now we have a teenage girl, who has an angel appear to her and takes on the mantle of giving birth to a child who will change the world. She knows ahead all the heartache and pain she and her son will go through and has the faith of a good Jew and follows God. People forget often that she had the choice to say no. But she opened her heart and womb and said yes Lord I will follow you. There is so much faith in these two. And you know there had to be many nights crying and afraid for both. But there we have the example of the season.
So my point being is that we are the hands, the hearts and the homes of God. We have been divinely inspired to give and help. Not collect and hoard. Today we have men and women coming home from Iraq from a war of endless horror. They have been in cities that resemble Manhattan and Atlanta and Dallas and around every corner was a horrid death, IED, or hidden bombs!!! Now they will return in a season when everyone is out at night, running from party to party, family home to family home and feel disoriented and confused. Some will have PTSD and be all to traumatized to participate. We will end up with an influx of homeless and the homeless and poverty ridden are growing as I type.
There have been lovely stories on the news lately of people going into K-Mart and Wal-mart and paying off layaway for children but we have families that haven’t put a layaway for children because they are worried about cancer meds or food. So remember the ill, the house bounds and the alone this Christmas and ” Don’t forget to remember” the people in your life that either pass through or are part of your life. I see the same child in Wal-mart every day he is homeless and I cannot get him to come home and live with me. He is about 17 and stays in our little Mayberry Wal-Mart where all the ladies watch him and feed him. But he needs a home. He would have one if he would just stop being afraid. If you know a homeless person try and help them get on their feet and work to help those who cannot help themselves in a recession that runs as deep as this one many will be without a Christmas dinner so bring the supplies and drop them at a door. Ring the bell and leave with a note from a secret Santa. Let’s all go out of our way to give to others this season than just collect more scarves, sweaters or jumpers no one ever wears or more plastic toys for over privaleged children.
I love this story. When my husband was about ten he was given tons of toys for christmas. He went with a sister down to help feed the homeless and ended up giving all his toys to the kids there because he had been given so much and they were just so happy to have a hot meal and a kind word. He knew then as he does now the meaning of Christmas and is a lovely role model for all the over comercialized lives we lead. So maybe under the tree may be a little empty but your hearts will be full.
So, Don’t Forget to Remember!
Callie Broussard-Wheeler
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December 16th, 2011
Hello,
I have missed ya’ll. I have been trying trying being the operative word not to work during the holidays: but to my broken heart’s dismay two friends are very ill and I have been trying without hope to help them. They needed meds not legal in the country yet. This med is having a great deal of success in Germany and we cannot get it. I would give my right arm to get that medicine. But part of this job is the great highs when everything has come out like you planned and taking God’s will and letting the divine process run it’s course when things don’t go as you plan. Hard lessons, for this stubborn Taurus. I do have a post: but I want to mention that the Iraq war ended yesterday and take a moment in prayer for every troop from every war and all the Iraqi people and others who lost their lives, homes and way of life will rebuild and flourish. I cannot imagine having your home city blow to bits because although soldiers fight wars civilians are the people who pay. The wife of the solider who comes home in a coffin and she is handed a flag. The parents. And the families that completely have to rebuild a war torn area. Normally the United States or occupying nation puts some money into the United Nations to help recover a war torn area. I just don’t see the logic. Never did. Why not outs the bad guys and not drop bombs. Believe me they have the men who can do it and no one would ever know they had been there. And while we are at it. I watched a list of all the people the world lost today the soldiers, writers, actors and Christopher Hitchens Hitch as I called him. He was a funny irreverent pistol of a man who wrote for vanity fair and actually wrote people back who had written him. He was a friend and he died today from complications do to esophageal cancer.
It has been a year of blessing here at Basic Missions. Grace, Duncan and I all finished our books. We are all soon to be published. And we are working on an exciting new year for you. My books will be coming out in May and March not in that order so pick them up. More on them later. Duncan may have an HBO series on his hands they like it I am sure of it and I am excited. And Grace has written the definitive book about being bed bound and ill and taking all your stumbling blocks and turning the into building blocks. The list of her accomplishments this year are to long and wonderous to list. But she deserves a round of applause and buy the book.
Now my family has once again been touched by cancer in a personal way. Here at Basic we speak often of the work of healing, of inspiration and motivation of healing but we often leave out the person striving right along side the person with cancer or a difficult illness. That person is the primary care giver. The person who is up all night with the sick in the family but also has to go to work in the morning. And the person who quickly learns that some folks don’t care about what is happening to their body and learns to be an expert on whatever cancer that the person has. I have been so impressed by my Mother this year. She shed the toxic vampires, and moved into healing mode. She whipped my Dad into shape as much as possible and is getting him through his BCG immuno-therapy treatments. I am so proud of her. I think just like there is a class in treatments or damn well should be. When Basic does a conference at a hospital we try to give a class to the newly diagnosis and hope the hospital continues that idea. Some do some don’t depending on resources.
However, caregivers are often left out of the loop. And this is a travesty. It is the hardest job in the world period. I don’t care what you do for a living to care for your loved one who is sick. You want them to understand that this is a full time job and it is fine to take a lap, leave for more than an hour and give your self some self love. Right here my dear Momma is laughing at me. Because she will say when do you or I give ourselves self care and love. Well I do. I have the luxury of running my own business so I am able to sleep late which I adore, and take time to read a book at night or go for long walks with Bella, knowing there is a cellphone making the distance smaller and we can be home in a flash if needed. Here is something many don’t talk about. Being a caregiver means living on high alert. Like a solider in a war. Because you are your just fighting a disease, the medical establishment, and the old fashioned ideas that doctors hold that means spend ten minutes or less with your patient and out. The caregiver fights for the rules, the treatment requirements, side effects and foods they can and cannot eat. They also take all the brain power they have left and enter cancer college and find out what can be done holistically and with diet to make a patient heal faster. Sadly the whole thing can end up feeling like it is on their shoulders. And thank God for these selfless souls. I have seen the most disgusting things in this business. The minute some is sick or dying the spouse runs for the hills. It is not their problem. They are not going to live their life that way dealing with illness. Here is what they miss. The laughter you both share at then end of a day of being sick. The drawing closer of your souls and the eternial knowledge that you honored your vows and you truly loved loved without boundries or condition. You loved unconditionally and if you loved one passes you did all you could and if they live then you are happier more in love and more bonded for life. Healing is another story we will approach in a few days. Oh how hard it is to go from running the show to sharing the show. But it is a blessing to have them well.
So blessed be the caregivers for they will see heaven in the eyes of the loved ones they care for, fight for and with to do the right thing. This blog is dedicated to my Mother who has literally spent her entire life caregiving, her Mom was sick most of her life, her little sister born ill, her older brother born ill, and then she married and spent 30 years cleaning up the pieces of her little sisters illness,by the way she loved her family and never thought it should be different. The along comes a daughter with cancer, a son-in-law with MS and GWS and a husband with Bladder cancer, My sister has her own set of issues and Mom helped her through each of those with grace and practically helped raise her beautiful son while she worked. My mother whose valient shoulders this family would not be standing without. They need a break a week cruise hell a month cruise and some ME time a concept she doesn’t accept. She is a warrior for her family and she is my hero. So thank you Mom for all that you do and take care of your caregiver. If you can use your brain and hands make sure you send them for a massage or a hair appointment they will most likely skip for you and be kind to them, help as much as you can, listen to their kind words of googled and researched wisdom, do what they ask and thank them for being with you to the bitter end. Thank you Momma for always being there for us.
All My Love,
Callie Broussard-Wheeler
P.S. if the spelling is off in this piece please forgive me my trustly computer is slowly going. And the spell check and the letter D are the first casulties.
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December 7th, 2011
Yesterday, like this entire vacation has been riddled with people I love being sick. We all know my Papa is going through his on battle with Bladder Cancer and he is winning. The treatment is a mean one; that can lead to being anemic. Well, he ran into the VA hospital to have his monthly check up and he was severely anemic. He needed four units of blood but the doc decided we would start with two to see if his body would perk up and make the rest of what he needs. So the precious patient had three hen pecking people in the room micro-managing everything from his meals to his meds. I must pause here and say that his nurses and tech’s were the best I have ever seen!!!! And that is saying a lot being the cancer warrior I am. These ladies knew their blood and they knew their patients better than most. I was very pleased. What also secretly pleased me was they had precious Pops on a lockdown with his diet. No exceptions. He was not crisis monitored like most hospital do when they work with diabetic’s. The room came with a menu that allowed you to place the order you would most enjoy within the bounds of a diabetic diet . They even had vegan and vegetarian options. WOW! I am impressed. I am a hard critic on hospitals having gone through such a trauma when they took my cancer out that I can still remember being labeled difficult for wanting question answered and meds explained. Not here this hospital, Springhill Memorial was on the ball. The rooms were bright and large we all had chairs an they offered Mom a cot and encouraged family to stay. Since Pops had improved so much since he was admitted she chose to go home around nine and get some rest because today would be a rough day getting him home and in bed. I have to place here a tribute to all cancer care givers out there. My Mom is amazing. I always wax on when father’s day comes around because when I tell my Dad I love him we both begin to cry. And it is always a snorting mess. But my Mother is my hero: the family rock. Here is one of her 70 year old days. And this is a real lessons to we baby boomers and the next generation that fell before gen. x to move and do what you have to do. Her life as the catholic church speaks of marriage is a vocation of love and avocation in marriage. She wakes early each day and hangs her laundry out she loves the fresh scent and loves the whole of it, as do I. She then cooks two breakfasts, one to get Pops ready for the day and holds it warm for him and then one for my nephew who loves a big southern breakfast. Biscuits, gravy, eggs, ham, bacon, and fruit, sometimes hashbrowns but not often. If she and Pop have had steak the night before she makes hash with that and it is to die for honestly. I grew up on these breakfast and she always made a plate for the bus driver since we lived so far out we were first on last off. He loved it. Now she cleans the house completely vacuums and makes all beds and brings in clothes before showering and dressing to the nines. Heels all day! She works as a mortgage specialist. She is the person your mortgage must pass through with all perfect paperwork before it can go into loan processing and she is brilliant. I pray next year she is working for Basic or retired. Then she comes home cooks for my sister and her son and Dad an herself, lays all the beds, makes sure homework is done and sends my sis and her son home for the night. Around nine she gets to sit down watch her design shows on tv or reads. She is the kindness, smartest and most capable woman I know. She is also a real lady. I often joke that if she was voted onto the game Survivor on the teley she would have a shelter and furniture built by noon, water and food hunted cleaned and cooking by three, beds make of straw by five, diner at six and no laying about. She would have those kids moving and win. On this point I am not exaggerating in the least. I have seen her do it when hurricanes hit. No electricity, well dig a fire pit, make sure there is water and ice, and function, no half -assed efforts apply. We are all very accomplished because she is a survivor in life. I a blessed to have her. Always starched clothes, sheets and napkins and always perfect manners no matter what happens. She is our families rock. An we have needed her so much and she has had so much on her plate.( Me time) is a concept she finds selfish and in poor taste. She says often that ”me” time is an excuse not to give to others and not to take the time you should with your own children. She is on a royal toot about modern mothers abandoning children to the playground or houses alone until parents come home from work is selfish, because it leads to behavior that can get the child into hot water over. She understands people have to work but before bringing a baby into this world have a plan that keeps them safe and doesn’t use other people. Have a sitter or nanny. Work it out or as she would say cut out some luxuries and stay home until they are teenagers then go to work. Sacrifice for the family or don’t have one. She is a strict moralist. She sees black and white, right and wrong and she is most often right. I am proud she is my mother. I wish if I had the opportunity to raise my son longer I would have given and loved as hard an she. does She tells me at 80 she will retire she is busy, she plays full rounds of basketball, can hit every store in town that opens and still make sure no one feels left out or not loved or miss a meal. I wish we all saw all she does and did for her without asking. I am trying to catch up but after years of care she needs years of pampering. I will get there or die trying. She will think this a silly notion. Now after dealing with and helping with every step of my cancer: supporting my juicing and alternative healing she is juicing for my Dad and making all the right choices. Although he says he would rather eat red clay with a silver spoon he is doing well. Soon we will have a fresh scope of the area and see that I pray no cancer cells have grown back on my Dad.
Just and example of her generosity. My Dad is sick sick and she was worried that Duncan and I needed her at my monthly visit to Dr. T. now granted it is much more fun when she comes. Numbing days are hard and she is fun and funny we laugh the whole way an talk of philisophical things on the way home while Duncan sleeps off his meds. Surprise mine make me talk. LOL. I am blessed to have my Mother as my best friend.
So back to the sunject, Pops needed blood. And as she has helped me in listening to all I was learning while writing my books, she was also learning which is highly flattering. She quizzed the doctor, even asked about irradiated blood. We did learn that is only used in blood transfusions where folks like me who had had chemo. She has made her Basic Missions binder and is keeping up with bills, and explanation of medical benefits and all the info on Bladder Cancer. She is a warrior queen and because of her care as always “we” the collective heal. However I am worried about her. She is tired and needs some down time. I know it is not an unusal statement but every family has drama but all drama must be left somewhere other than her door for a while and give her a break.
We need to change the way we treat aging parents in the country. Duncan’s folks are in an amazing nursing home. The nurses couldn’t be nicer, the staff will do anything for you but to him it is just not home. Just not comfortable. And Duncan’s Mom has decided her words not mine to ignore her surrounding and sleep as much as she can.So I don’t think they are happy. I am praying they will come live with us and like it! We would be so blessed to have them. I have four bedrooms all with King size beds and baths and we are ready for all eventualities. So back to the reason for the story.
I often think we really don’t think things through until we are faced with them. That blood my father received was a gift from some kind stranger who cared enough to give his own life giving blood that saved my Dad’s life. Duncan could have done it they are a match so we are ready ahead but it was an amazing blessing. So if you pass the kiosk in the mall asking for donations or hear a call out for O- because it is rare make sure you donate blood. It may save the life of someone you love. And thank you kind stranger for saving the life of my precious Dad. It was an act of selfless kindness. Year 2012 will be random acts of kindness year so begin now during the holiday season. We have more auto collisions and accidents this time of year depleteing the blood supply for the normal patient, than any other time of the year. So Donate.
I hope you enjoy these little tidbits out of my life. I am just sharing until January and we begin the first reboot of the year. Nutrition and healing so get ready. But for now Grace, Duncan and I are just writing about life. I am enjoying the break but also itching for work at the same time. I enjoy just sharing with you all. I hope you are participating in our computer drive. If you update your computer please clean it and then leave a working system on it like windows 7 and send it in we are distributing them as gifts to under privileged kids with cancer in hospitals so they can see their class mates and be involved in their on class at school. The kids can see them and they can see the kids. Skype an technology is a gift. We gift the computers and skype time so please donate. Send to :
Basic Missions, 206 Sutherland Drive, Mobile, Alabama 36611 and we will send you a nice tax write off for 500 dollars for the this year if it come before 2012 and we are only looking for laptops or pads we cannot get the towers into the hospital rooms or laps of children. Thanks all ahead of time. This is one of our most successful drives all year. Most folks throw the photo up on craigslist or something but this way you’re helping a child stay connected while the healing is taking place, what is better than that. Que holiday Charlie Brown Christmas Music. So thanks ahead for any spare laptops, usable please and remember even old macs work forever so if you have one gathering dust even the purse like one shoot it over. I know some kids that would love it.
Now off to make sure Mum has everything needed and then rest. Thanks all at Springhill!!!!! Basic Missions would love to offer you our wellness clinic free of charge for you patient’s we have several. Know your Number? How to manage a glycemix index that helps you understand your diet. Food 101. Cancer 101. Or any of our programs just give us a jingle. And thank you for the lovely treatment. Many Blessings.
Happy Holiday.
Callie Broussard-Wheeler
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