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Jacob Schroeder

The 'Second Law' of Retirement: You Need a System, Not Just Goals

Blue, orderly lines converge into a tangle of multi-colored strands, demonstrating the concept of entropy, or moving from order to disorder.

Retirement planning may not be rocket science, but that doesn’t mean you can ignore the laws of physics.

Think back to your high school science class and you might recall the Second Law of Thermodynamics: left alone, systems tend toward disorder — called entropy. Like a garden, chaos takes over when things are left unmanaged.

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