Highfill Performance Group

So many articles are written on the art of perseverance, I thought I’d add some of my observations over my lifetime. Here are ten reasons why you should always choose perseverance over quitting.
 Quitters never get to:
1.  Have a Lifetime movie made about them. When was the last time you heard about “The Life and Times [...]

Sometimes I am just a big ol’ quitter. I admit it. When I was eleven years old, I quit Girl Scouts because I was tired of walking to the meetings and I heard the next badge had to be swimming and I was scared of the water. My brother and sister will tell you that [...]

Enthusiasm is the most irresistible force in nature. Period. Find a person who is enthusiastic about what they do, and you will find yourself absorbing some kind of kinetic energy. You walk away searching for the thing you can be that enthusiastic about.
Tom Peters, in his book The Little Big Things, makes enthusiasm the first [...]

To those of you who have been following our change journey together, we’ve spent the last three weeks following three signposts:
1. No Complaining
2. No Excuses
3. No Fear
Why are we talking about this change trifecta? Because, as Scott Peck said in the first line of The Road Less Traveled, “Life is difficult.” Positive perspectives make a [...]

This week our topic was “No Fear,” meaning that those who follow me on Linkedin, twitter and Facebook were asked to spend the week facing one small fear per day. I tended to do really small things, like bravely asking a woman who had cut in line at Arbies to please move to the end [...]

This week we celebrate making changes in our lives by trying to live with “No Fear.” I realize the term is a creation of media advertising; fear is not something that you even want to disappear. It serves a definite purpose in survival, and it’s often less controllable than many hyped up on Red Bull [...]

“If no one told me who I was, who would I be?”
I found this question in Wayne Dyer’s book, Excuses Begone!, and it made me realize I’ve forgotten how to answer that question.
I knew my journey when I was just six- years-old, sitting in a corner of my living room that I had turned into an [...]