Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Think outside the wheel

How's your 401k doing?

I have decided the best retirement plan for a long and healthy life is to run 401k/month. That's roughly 100k a week, or 60 miles. I just hope my knees are in agreement. I made this realization after hearing a pre-quarter-end desperate radio ad by Joseph A. Banks: dramatic male voice offering everything 1/2 off! And the fact that my 401k account has been dead in the water for the last decade ... Nothing has changed, factories in Asia are pumping out stuff and the West is desperately trying to sell all that stuff. One better have an expensive MBA to prove creativity in selling stuff. It's still just stuff though. Things will change when people realize they are going nowhere at anaerobic pace in their own mouse wheels. Should we tell them? Will it make a difference?

Running puts you above all this stuff. Nothing else maters, just you and the road. Build your 401k the way it makes sense. Think outside the wheel.