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Change Is Scary

Change is a part of life. You change jobs, living situations, cars, cell phone providers, the list goes on. For some, CHANGE is to be avoided at all costs. Change is scary. Who really needs those fancy cell phones anyways, rotary dial phones work just as good, right?

Change happens, and dealing with, and processing it are important. There are 10 words that I like to use to sum…

Garage Sale Diehard: Live Free Or At Least Get It Cheap

One man’s junk is another’s treasure; I’m sure you’ve heard that before. Well it’s true; believe it. How else can you explain people waking up at 5AM on a Saturday so as to be the first to arrive at the garage sale that starts at 6AM in the next county? Is there really any reason to roust yourself out of bed at such a painful hour in order to have…

Ready to be SWOTed?

Ready for something boring? If so, you should stop reading now, because I am going to discuss SWOT analysis, which is by no means boring. So what is SWOT analysis and why should you care about it? Broadly speaking, SWOT is a tool used in business to analyze the current state of an organization, department, or individual. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. The Strengths and Weaknesses are an…

Renting For Life

Houses are cheap! Interest rates are low! Buy a house now! According to the experts (and the idiots) now is a great time to buy a home. Interest rates will never be this low again, or at least that’s what they say, so if you plan on buying, buy now. I hear this over and over from many different sources. People whisper…

Your Blog Won’t Make A Year

Get excited! Powerogre.com is now a year old, a year wiser, and statistically past the blog failure zone (most blogs die after 6 months, I have no source, go Google it). There have been some ups and some downs (literally, powerogre.com was 404 over a week in September 2010). Through it all, the article’s kept coming and so did the readers (all 15 of you).

It’s…