Highfill Performance Group

I used to love to pull April Fool’s pranks on my dad. Just as he would be leaving for an appointment, I’d ask him why he had a big ink stain on his shirt. Or tell him that I wrecked the car. Once the huffing and puffing was over, I’d calmly say “April Fools!” He [...]

How can you not like a man who runs a beet farm after hours and hides weapons around the office? Anybody reading this who is not familiar with the character Dwight Schrute from “The Office,” well, I recommend you rejoin the human race and watch a couple of episodes. For the rest of us, I [...]

You know what it feels like when your leg falls asleep in the middle of the night? At first it feels heavy and numb, then it starts to ache, then tingle, then (thank God) it is awake and happy. That’s how my mind felt coming out of my Rip Van Winkle years inside a corporation. [...]

Some things really should change; here’s my ballad to a service debacle many home and small business owners are dealing with today: Let me tell you a story about two weeks past, When I’ve been at battle with Verizon and Comcast, Verizon said they’d provide a better price, Comcast said “Yea, but we can be [...]

Here’s why some people can’t get others to change – they focus more on outcome rather than the behaviors needed to get to that outcome. I remember the first time I decided to diet. It was Christmas break, and I was coming home from my first semester at college. Unlike many who find the “Freshman [...]

The following change story comes from Russell Simmons’ book Do You! 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success. I find Russell Simmons to be refreshingly honest and forthright about his passion for business, and this particular story is something I really needed to be reminded of – that the result [...]

My internet was down, again. No big deal, I only rely on my internet connection for my livelihood, and this was the third time in a week that it had gone down. Our phone lines were also down, which was not a surprise since we had lost phone lines at least six times in the [...]