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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...

Going to Work with My Toddler: Work-Life Balance as Comedy

Sometimes work-life balance reads like an episode of "I Love Lucy." We can give our best efforts to...

Looking for Positive Change? Start with Sweat.

People that chose to develop the habit of working out regularly understand the value of a good...

Rewire Live Series: Control

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

A Story About Habits, Growth and The Band Phish

>I’ve got this client we’ll call "Jim." Jim is a self-described HUGE fan of the band Phish. He has...

Vocational Wellness Is Key. Also, What's a "Vocation?"

In this video, Steven Longan makes the case that vocational wellness is a vital part of growing our...

What Kind of Rewards Are the Best Motivators?

...but are all rewards created equal? That is, do all rewards have the same effect on our thinking...

Due Tomorrow, Do Tomorrow: Getting Leverage on Procrastination

I’ll confess that I didn’t start out with the intent to write an article on procrastination. I...

Fostering Teamwork by Stilling the Lizard Brain

Most animals in the Kingdom travel and live in some kind of grouping. Sure, there are a few...

The Best Time-Management App You’ll Find

A variation of the same question has been in front of myself and the other Rewire Specialists...

Own Your Time - Don’t Let Time Own You (Part Two)

"I guard my time fiercely and without apology," says Gary Keller, author of The One Thing: The...

The Power of Work-Place Rituals: Thriving and Changing Together

In an article in HBR “How Ritual Delivers Performance,” Paulo Guenzi offers some extraordinary...

Five Things You Can Do Today to Increase Focus

In today’s article, I want to give another simple concept and skill as one solution to the “I have...

A Quick-Start Guide to Mindfulness (Part 2): Simple and Powerful...But Not Easy

...if we want to reap the extraordinary benefits of mindfulness, we'll need to commit to take those...

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...

Hitting Your Goals By Learning Stillness

Until recently, the standard scientific belief was that human attributes were pretty much set after...

The Power Of Starting Something New

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

Are You Going To Enjoy The Fruit Of Your Work?

He had more plans for the spot: He was going to build a fire pit, clear some trees, and put in a...

What Keeps You Up At Night?

If I have a big presentation coming up or one of my kids is having a hard time with something or...

Does Your Work Depend On You Being Right? (WHAT ARE THOSE?!)

In our work — with clients, with colleagues, with tasks and projects — we are frequently confronted...

What If Controlling Less Allowed You To Grow More?

We all subjected ourselves to be trained by Navy SEALs....Thankfully, the training we went through...

Would You Rather Have "Younger-looking" Eyes or "Younger-seeing" Eyes?

The picture for this article is of water taken from the "Fountain of Youth." You can tell it's the...

How To Enjoy Life Like The Italians

A few weeks ago, the wife, kids, and I attended a wedding in the south of Italy (Sorrento to be...

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...

The Things I Think I Want

What else does a part of me want? I really want to eat whatever I want, play whenever I want, sleep...

A Fun Exercise About Growth, Communication, Creativity And The Power Of Bricks

We’ll talk about: (1) How the exercise is setup, (2) what almost always happens with people as they...

When Was The Last Time You Did Something For The First Time?

Logically, we know that we should begin some of these things, and there is even a part of us that...

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....

How We Started A New System Today

Today was not an easy day. Good things happened today, but it was not easy. Here’s the story: About...

The Winds Of Change: How We Can Adapt And Grow In Any Season

This is why I am always interested in the ubiquitous question “How are you?” My closest friends...

What Gets Measured Gets Done

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

You’ll Grow Faster If You Can Be Wrong Every Now And Then

You’ll Grow Faster If You Can Be Wrong Every Now And Then

This Article Is Risk-y

Here’s my key question: What would your business or your life look like if you could magically and...

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...

Relearning To Have Fun

Rewire has been on a tear lately getting the concepts of “Lizard Brain Control” into the hands of...

Have You Tried Asking "So What?"

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

What's Your Story?

What's Your Story?

Motivation from the Inside Out

Motivation from the Inside Out

Neuroplasticity and Six Degrees of Moose Migration

Neuroplasticity and Six Degrees of Moose Migration

What's In It For Me?

What's In It For Me?

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...

Part 2 of “Opportunities For Growth Are Everywhere”

I rarely do “Part 2” articles. I understand that most people read things like this, glean something...

Opportunities For Growth Are Everywhere

Have you ever had a sequence of events happen around you that are so insane that it makes you...

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 Lizard And Traditions

What a year it has been! I hope that you get some time at the end of this year to sit back, relax...

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....

Take it Easy?

Make more money, have more peace and get almost anything you want with this one uncomplicated...

What To Do With Difficult News

I want to tell you a story. Actually, “story” might be the wrong the word. “Confession” is more...

What To Do If You Don't Feel Thankful

I wonder how many blogs, articles and other social media postings are going to revolve around the...

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 Simple Suggestion For Anyone Looking For Fulfillment

Happiness, Joy, Peace, Fulfillment. These are all states of mind that people in our culture search...

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...

Taking Up Something New

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

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...

"Do What You Love..." Is That Actually Helpful?

A friend recently sent me a quote from Confucius that went something like this: “just find what it...

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...

Rewire Live Series: Be Right

Are you going to be right or will you find peace? This question can not only save you a lot of...

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: Introduction to Lizard Brain

Today's video in the series is an introduction to a concept that we spend a lot of time thinking...

You Have The Right To Remain Positive

An inadvertent and little-talked-about side effect of this desire to always be right is that when...

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"...

What's On The Other Side Of Rewiring

We don’t just Rewire our minds because we are bored and need something to do; we do it because it...

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...

I Failed Again. It’s Not Worth It To Keep Trying. Or, Is It?

Two of my favorite quotes that have accompanied me on my life journey through varied trials. The...

Rewire Live Series: Workout

Working out Rewires your mind and tells your Lizard Brain that you do, in fact, have the reserves...

A Story About Habits, Growth and The Band Phish

I’ve got this client we’ll call "Jim." Jim is a self-described HUGE fan of the band Phish. In fact,...

Rewire Live Series: Enjoy

Often, we think to ourselves, "I don't have the time for (fill-in-the-blank of thing you enjoy...

Live Series: Rest

How good does it sound to get more Rest? As I watched this video clip on rest from an event I did...

This Is What "Better" Costs

Today’s post is special group post. It’s from me (Longan) and Jason and Carrie and Steve because we...

Rewire Live Series

Welcome to our new video blog series! This video is an introduction taken from one of our recent...

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...

Looking For Authentic Change? Start With Sweat.

People that have chosen to develop the habit of working out regularly understand the value of a...

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...

Make Time For Joy

Some people seem to have a propensity to enjoy life. Do you know someone like this Someone that...

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...

Attention To The Softer Side

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

Bring The Mysterious Part With You

What is it that touches your heart and your soul? This is such a critical question in our lives and...

Seeing Is Believing (Or is it the other way around?)

“I wanna have friends that I can trust — that love me for the man I’ve become not the man that I...

The Stories That Tell Us

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

The Courage To Reduce Stress

I Recently watched a video of a scientist speaking on the detriments of stress. The biological and...

Please Pass the Candied Change - Er, I Mean, Yams

Editor’s note: This week, Steve Longan is going to sit in the blogger’s chair and give us a post...

Too Convinced

Rewiring our minds is often about challenging the manner in which we think about things. For...

Can we just "get" courage?

Rewiring our minds is no easy task. I am not kidding about this. Not easy. In fact, the day I write...

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...

A little investing over the weekend

Hi all! Quick blog for today. I’ve been out this week working with people in Wisconsin rewiring...

Dumb Questions

Ah, the things we can learn from the idioms we use everyday. We’re awash in them for better or...

Negotiating Rest

Are you part of the 2%? I recently read in an article that around 2% of the world’s population has...