Busy-ness or being busy is behind what we call work. What drives business is about as clear as what drives sexuality. It is a subconscious mix of thought, hormone, patterns and drive. Francis Ford Coppola in a recent interview said: If you don’t take a risk then how are you going to make something really [...]
Oscar Wilde in The Soul of Man Under Socialism: Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Thomas Merton in No Man Is An Island: Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. In the Advantace coaching approach art is used as a right brain access [...]
“Does the moon exist only when I look at it?” Albert Einstein I live in a city, a large city, and everywhere I go I see concrete and walls, and particularly I see lots of signs and advertisements. When I drive my eyes are trained to flick from one sign to another, you have to, [...]
In this attached video the Advantace Coaching Cycle is explained. This is a training video which explains the Advantace coaching cycle. Coaching provides focus on achieving specific outcomes and deliverables by specific actions. Once these actions are achieved it results in a positive encouragement to move forward towards the next [...]
Welcome to the Advantace website! In this video a little of the attitude and philosophy of Phil Cheney is explained, in a Star Trek like context for a bit of fun, with Captain Picard on deck!
When I moved country, I spoke to my daughter, and told her how I had purchased a one way ticket back to where I am now living, in Canada. This was a move to the other side of the world, almost directly on the bottom (or top) of the planet from Australia, down-under, where I [...]
“Our intention creates our reality.” Wayne DyerI am now a life coach and a published author! How did this happen, and are these two diverse objectives connected to the power of intention? Yes. As the old saying goes, I was able to catch “Two birds with one stone.” In the past I started writing as a result [...]
“All my relations” now include talking animals, shrinking hides that become shields, and wisdom from the oldest in the village.I have just finished reading a book by Joseph Marshall III, which has a lot of interesting and engaging stories about life on the North American plains before the white two-leggeds came. I must say that [...]
“Concerto #1” By Philosofree Recently, at De Sotos café, where I sing and play guitar on Thursday evenings, it was a special night because my darling Manu joined me to sing “California Dreaming” for the first time! During the night a message came to me, and I would like you to [...]
I was brought up to believe that the law was primarily a societal practice or rule for the good of the society. Today I read the book, “The African Americans” by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and I have revised my understanding of the law to; “Law is a rule or authority imposed by those with [...]
