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When Your Savings Feel Inadequate Despite Years of Effort

I've been contributing to my 401k for ten years but I just calculated that it won't be enough to maintain my current lifestyle in retirement and now I feel like everything I've saved is pointless.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between financial discipline and actual security needs can create a crisis of faith in delayed gratification itself.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Saving and the psychology of deferred gratification?”

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