Solid Advice from Megan

Don't look at your 401(k), she says. Unless you're retiring in November, in which case you're no longer retiring in November anyway, so no reason to look.

I did, however, look. Unbelievably, I'm up 12 percent this year. The only bad news is that all my assets are pegged to the Zimbabwean dollar.  

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2008/10/solid-advice-from-megan/8900/