Jonathan, you have been blazing the trail I have been following for decades. That path has led me to the point where I can provide for my family beyond what I had ever hoped to be able to do. Your direction has been critical in this journey. I just pulled out a notebook I having been keeping for over 30 years with clippings I thought would provide important guidance. The first full article stabled to those pages is quite yellowed now, but even after decades I can recall the illustration that accompanies it - a baker thinly slicing a large loaf of bread with a long bread knife - each slice 4.1% of the loaf. With this article, you introduced me to a financial planner from El Cajon, Calif. - Bill Bengen. That was the first time I could really put a target on the wall for my saving plan. As I near retirement, I think I must reread an article stapled just a few pages later, again with a memorable illustration - a woman with an empty bowl about to select one of 3 different sized ladles to use to draw soup from a crock shaped like a piggy bank: After Scrimping to Build a Nest Egg Brace Yourself for Withdrawal Angst. You are now cautioning about worry. I will have less angst and worry because I have tried to follow the course that you so faithfully kept mapping out article after article, post after post, podcast after podcast. You are a wonder and a wonderful companion, my friend!
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Jonathan, you have been blazing the trail I have been following for decades. That path has led me to the point where I can provide for my family beyond what I had ever hoped to be able to do. Your direction has been critical in this journey. I just pulled out a notebook I having been keeping for over 30 years with clippings I thought would provide important guidance. The first full article stabled to those pages is quite yellowed now, but even after decades I can recall the illustration that accompanies it - a baker thinly slicing a large loaf of bread with a long bread knife - each slice 4.1% of the loaf. With this article, you introduced me to a financial planner from El Cajon, Calif. - Bill Bengen. That was the first time I could really put a target on the wall for my saving plan. As I near retirement, I think I must reread an article stapled just a few pages later, again with a memorable illustration - a woman with an empty bowl about to select one of 3 different sized ladles to use to draw soup from a crock shaped like a piggy bank: After Scrimping to Build a Nest Egg Brace Yourself for Withdrawal Angst. You are now cautioning about worry. I will have less angst and worry because I have tried to follow the course that you so faithfully kept mapping out article after article, post after post, podcast after podcast. You are a wonder and a wonderful companion, my friend!
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