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Retirement Weekly: Get your head out of the sand and create a retirement plan

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To be financially secure later in life, the “ignorance is bliss” approach simply won’t work

Retirement is an area that we must address head-on, sooner rather than later.


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If ignorance is bliss, then ostriches — famous for burying their heads in the sand when stressed — might be the happiest birds in the animal kingdom. 

There’s just one problem with that theory: ostriches don’t actually bury their heads in the sand.

Instead, when overwhelmed or afraid, ostriches run away or hide — reactions I’ve also seen from…

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