Believing Is Seeing: How to Avoid Retirement Myopia
During a visit to my optometrist's office, I started thinking about all the lenses we look through in life. As I squinted into the vision-testing device during my exam, the doctor repeatedly asked which looked clearer: No. 1, click, No. 2, click, or how about No. 3? Through the machine, clarity was somewhat easy to recognize as we went through the tedious, but necessary, process of finding the right prescription for a severely nearsighted patient.
The exercise got me thinking: What if there were a machine that helped you visualize your retirement plan? I mean it is 2020, after all. Would the image for most investors be clear? How could it not be blurry right now when it's nearly impossible to see the big picture beyond this coronavirus crisis?
Unfortunately, there's no LASIK procedure for retirement planning, but we can correct our vision along the way. And while these times are
