Within an hour of reading that article, I was committed to learning the basics of financial planning. I had no desire to learn the intricacies of the stock market nor to be able to recite mortgage tables from memory.
All I wanted to know was how best to get where I want to be from where I am now.
I figured Dad is no financial genius, but he must have learned a few things in his fifty-eight years. He seemed as good a place as any to start.