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Start here. Six steps.

You don’t need a finance degree. You need one evening, a calculator and a plan you’ll stick to. Here’s the order I’d do it in.

Markus Behmann
Step one: look at where you want to go.
  1. 1

    Find your gap

    Ten minutes with your pension statement and one calculator. You can’t fix what you haven’t measured.

  2. 2

    Know your numbers

    Net worth, monthly cash flow, savings rate. Three numbers, one evening.

  3. 3

    Fix the leaks

    Emergency fund first, expensive debt gone, fees hunted down.

  4. 4
  5. 5

    Earn more

    The lever most finance sites forget, probably because nobody earns a commission on it. Raise, side business, own company.

  6. 6

Education, not advice. I don’t know your situation, and past returns promise nothing. Check my numbers, then make your own call. You’re a grown-up.