Powering up is not a bad idea by any means mate! In the end, HP is by far the most powerful metric on the chain.
I have actually been converting my HBD to hive for quite sometime now. My thought was, by putting HBD into saving I can earn 20% per year - but hive moves by 20% at least once every month and if I can capitalize on a few of those I can increase my HBD much faster.
We just gotta love hive eh! So many ways to grow!