*2* The fatal mistake 90% of investors make right before retirement: why your portfolio could be self-destructing!
Picture growing money like a garden, slow and steady, year after year. Yet what happens when you start taking from it matters more than how carefully you planted before. Most advice focuses on getting in early, saving hard, pushing returns higher - rarely does anyone talk about stepping back out again. Shifting from piling up assets to pulling them down changes everything, quietly testing nerves and choices alike. This moment, drawing income instead of adding capital, carries weight few expect. Experts spend years showing paths into investments - but stay silent once you need to leave. Without clear steps for this stage, even large balances can shrink faster than imagined. How withdrawals unfold shapes lasting security far beyond earlier wins.
