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The Courage To Begin

There is no other way to go and do something great if we don’t stop doing something mediocre or...

Management Coaching Culture Boosts Employee Retention

Reduced stress, recognition, and humanity are better motivators than fear and might. The key is...

How One-on-One Business Coaching Gets Results

One on one business coaching is focused on helping the coachee with the disconnect between what...

Rewire Live Series: Control

From the Rewire Live Series: a short video on "control" taken at a recent workshop in Portland, OR...

Things I Learned from Listening to My Procrastination

Last night before falling asleep, I had a brief and final thought about going for a good run in the...

I’ve Used This Boat Metaphor to Meet Challenges and Drive Growth for Teams

As I was coaching one of the project leaders last week, a quote by early 20th century author G. K....

1 Powerful Habit in 8 Steps: The Mechanics of the Hand-Written Note

A month ago, I wrote an article on the power of the hand-written note. And the stories that I have...

Entrepenuer Magazine Ranks Rewire One of the Top Entrepreneurial Companies in America

Hey everybody, we made it onto a list! Last month, Entrepreneur magazine recognized Rewire as one...

Purpose Is More Than A "One-And-Done" Activity

I wrote a few weeks ago about the idea that "re-solving" old problems is actually a good thing. And...

Venn Diagrams: Answering the Foundational Question of How “Work” & “Life” Are Related

I’m not drawing diagrams for diagrams’ sake (although they are fun to look at regardless of what...

The Power Of Starting Something New

When hosting a Rewire Workshop, I often ask groups “how does it take to break a habit?” A...

Lessons On Procrastination

Last night before falling asleep, I had a brief and final thought about going for a good run in the...

What's The Smallest Step You Can Take Today? (The Land Of Lost Songs)

The joke among songwriters is “I’d totally have a top-10 album if I could just get back all my...

"What Does Rewire Do?" Let Me Tell You! (Video)

Recently, Rewire created a small video that I would like to present to you here about this very...

How Can You Tell When Familiarity Is Keeping You From Positive Growth?

Multiple studies have shown the link between a psychological/behavioral preference for the familiar...

LeBron James, Leadership And Investing In The Work Of Others

I love watching team basketball played by the best competitors in the world. I love watching five...

Building Rhythms Of Rest Into Our Work

The picture for this article was taken from above the far corner of the music room at my house....

If Only We Would Accept Some Inconvenience

The human brain desires ease. None of us is exempt from that fact. Recently, I have been evaluating...

What Gets Measured Gets Done

I had a manager for 13 years of my career in mortgage banking who had this go-to management...

Getting An 'F' In Math

Think back to the last time you took a math test. If your teacher was anything like mine, there was...

Have You Tried Forgetting About Your Problems And Investing In Others Yet?

The picture at the top of this article may be tough to decipher at first. It’s 120 black backpacks...

Have You Tried Asking "So What?"

What are those little episodes in your day that tend to tank you? Things that make you angry,...

Motivation from the Inside Out

Motivation from the Inside Out

Neuroplasticity and Six Degrees of Moose Migration

Neuroplasticity and Six Degrees of Moose Migration

A True Story About Authentic Growth And “Good To Great”

A True Story About Authentic Growth And “Good To Great”

You Can Still Start Now

A few months ago, we published an article about not quitting something that you start. This article...

The 6 Items Needed To Achieve The Impossible In 53.24 Days

My daughter, Julia, is working on changing some of her homework habits and last night she asks me...

The Role Of Forgiveness In High-Performance Culture

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the crucial role that paradox plays in high-performance culture....

The Difficult We Do Immediately And The Impossible Takes A Little Longer

It was Fall 1979 and my Dad and I had just finished the last leaf raking and lawn mowing of the...

The Role Of Paradox In High-Performance Culture

The Navy Seals met us in the lobby of our hotel. Sunrise was about 10 minutes away. As 50 of us...

A Story About Not Quitting

Last week, I ran as part of a marathon relay team in the Baltimore Running Festival. While casually...

How To Resign From A Job You Hate (In 6 Steps)

During the last few weeks we have written articles about when it might be the right time to

Rewire So You Can....

A close friend of mine recently attended one of our workshops and was deeply impacted by her...

You Know It’s Time To Leave When... (A Short Story)

If you had asked me the middle of last year "What I would be doing career wise for the next 20...

The Role Of Epiphanies In Our Work

As you read this short piece from us today, the Rewire Team is in Sunny Southern California...

Managing Your Time Can End Badly

The more I go on in life the more I realize how much I thought I knew that ends up being not quite...

When Control Becomes A Liability To Our Work

Dave didn’t like my presentation. Come to think about it, I’m not so sure Dave liked me.

The Connections That Keep Our Work Alive

Off-duty firefighter Scott Brawner was working out in a suburban Portland gym this Spring,...

The Light Side Of Hope

Lately, in the spirit of rewiring my own mind, I have been observing my own hopes and I realized...

Why “The Work” Is So Important

The sweet, delicious corn that our family has been able to enjoy during our summer dinners this...

Why Would I Invest In That? What’s The ROI?

When we think of making an investment in something it usually goes hand in hand with the...

Letting Go Of The Past So You Can Take Up Something New

The pull in our businesses and lives to repeat old patterns is as pervasive as gravity. Starting...

The Link Between Enjoyment And Positive Change

For those of you following us on social media (insert shameless plug to follow Rewire on Facebook...

What Happens To Us When We Invest In Others

The family and I just finished a 6 day mission trip to the The Dominican Republic and I am settled...

Positive Change Starts With Doing Nothing. No, Seriously.

Most of us feel awful when the main option presented to us is "do nothing and just think." A

Where Our Convictions And Ability To Listen Clash

Deep conviction can serve us well in our work, but there is a potential dark side.

Rewire Live Series: Habits

We're now introducing the various aspects of Lizard Brain in the Rewire Live series. Today's is on ...

Rewire Live Series: Familiarity

We're now introducing the various aspects of Lizard Brain in the Rewire Live series. Today's is on ...

Dog Ownership And Axioms Of Leadership That Will Grow Your Organization

In my early days of studying organizations, I started compiling a list of pithy observations about...

Is Today The Day That You Stop (Or Start)?

I have a client (we’ll call "Danny") who recently set a specific day to stop smoking. Danny has...

Rewire Live Series: Execute

There's such a strange irony when it comes to planning: Many struggle to do it because (they claim)...

Rewire Live Series: Release

Video from a recent event that took place in Portland. Hear Steve Scanlon talk about what "Release"...

Rewire Live Series: Invest

One thing I've been enjoying about his video blog series is that I get to watch these cuts of video...

3 Easy Ways To Create 5 Simple Steps

I have droned on and on about writing this blog and it is about time I sat and got to it. I have to...

What I've Learned During Lent About Rewiring Familiarity

I am 35 days into the commitment I made to myself of giving up alcohol for 40 days. For those of...

What If No One Notices The Amazing Thing We Just Did?

The year: 2012. The explorer: Jason Rodi. The place: Bouvet Island. For those of you looking for...

When Will "Hard" Sell?

I am so grateful for the many people in the world who are so much more knowledgeable than me (an...

If Not Now, When?

The title to this post came from words that I wrote at the bottom of a sheet of lined yellow paper....

Don't Like All Of Your Pets

We love our dogs. Our pets, in general, are big parts of our lives. In fact, so much of our lives...

How Giving Breaks Us Out Of Funks

Everyone gets in funks. May not be often for some, but it still happens. Some funks can last an...

How much planning?

I recently asked a mentor of mine about planning and how much he thought was required in order for...

Start Now, Lizard Brain

Hello everyone. I’m Jason and I’m the newest member of the Rewire team. Let’s say it’s a Monday...

All this praise is turning me into a failure!

I want to go over a dynamite article I just read that has some great implications for how we work...

The Impossible Often Is

A colleague of mine recently went to a seminar and snapped a picture of some books that were being...

I cannot forgive, but I cannot forget.

“I can forgive but I cannot forget.” Have you ever heard that expression? I know I have. Can we...

Re-solving

Over the years working with clients, I have been on a merry-go-round with regard to New Year’s...

Attention To The Softer Side

Over the years, I have written and spoken a great deal on the concept of Hard Skills and Soft...

The Stories That Tell Us

Hi All! Steve Longan here. You might remember me from such blog posts as "The Thanksgiving Post"...

Ready, Fire! Ready, Fire! Ready, Fire, Aim!

We just recently completed a key project at Rewire, but not long after the completion, I realized...

Life Balance Is A Joke

For our overall health, I think it is important to accept that we shouldn't have unrealistic and...

Held To Account

Accountability is one of those interesting concepts that most everyone thinks they need but just as...