Highfill Performance Group

When my friend, Helen, found herself in an emergency room with high blood pressure, she began to think about her young boys. She wanted to stay around for them, so she worked to do whatever it took to lower her blood pressure. She spent the next several years compiling all of the information she needed [...]

[Synopsis from my Upcoming Book Called "Amazing Change"] I was born a Baptist preacher’s kid, and never before nor since have I learned so much about being a change warrior. My parents were called to churches that were struggling. Our job as a family was to spend the next two to three years leading the [...]

I have a humor blog that I write for baby boomer women called DameNation. My articles are intended to lighten women’s lives through laughter. Thanks to this blog, I’ve become a regular contributor to Huffington Post, where it seems my humor is pissing some people off. In a recent post I discussed how talented women are [...]

While work-life might offer education on skills, rarely does it help us understand how to get along with those around us. This is ironic because research reveals that poor relationship skills is the number one derailer for professionals. As I work within companies, I find that at the heart of the greatest project failures is [...]

Nobody told me the greatest difficulty of aging would be growing older in a world that spins an ugly, sad story about the experience. We live in a time of anti-aging serum, anti-aging vitamins, and anti-aging exercises that are used as weapons to fight the enemy of change. In this world of anti-aging, those who [...]

My senior class was the first class in our school’s history to have Senior Skip Day revoked. Not because something we had done, but because a senior the year before had set something on fire. We were livid, filled with rage at the general unfairness that teenagers fight against every day of their narcissistic existence. We [...]

“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.” ― Patrick Rothfuss I didn’t want to be in college. My boyfriend lived at home, and I missed him every single day. I was attending [...]