<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Retirement on MarkJacobsen.net</title><link>https://markjacobsen.net/tags/retirement/</link><description>Recent content in Retirement on MarkJacobsen.net</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 02:36:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://markjacobsen.net/tags/retirement/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>How to Retire Forever on a Fixed Chunk of Money</title><link>https://markjacobsen.net/2019/02/how-to-retire-forever-on-a-fixed-chunk-of-money/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 02:36:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://markjacobsen.net/2019/02/how-to-retire-forever-on-a-fixed-chunk-of-money/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It’s at least worth considering.&lt;/p&gt;

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 &lt;p&gt;The absolute _key _to success in early retirement, and indeed most areas of life, is to get the big picture approximately right and not sweat the small stuff. And design the big picture with a generous **&lt;a href="http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/17/its-all-about-the-safety-margin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Safety Margin&lt;/a&gt;, **which allow lots of slop and mistakes in your original forecasts and allows you to still come out with a surplus.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2018/11/29/how-to-retire-forever-on-a-fixed-chunk-of-money/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;How to Retire Forever on a Fixed Chunk of Money&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>