The decisions you make today will have a huge impact (for good or for bad) on your future results. This is especially true in financial and retirement planning. Read this story…
Many years ago a man worked in a Denver railroad office where he was in charge of the baggage and express traffic carried in passenger trains. One day he received a telephone call from another railroad in New Jersey who said that a passenger train had arrived without its baggage car.
Three hundred passengers were angry because they had no luggage.
They discovered that the train had left California and traveled to Utah and then to Denver and St. Louis with no problems. However, in St. Louis a switchman had mistakenly moved a piece of metal just three inches. That piece of steel was a switch point and the baggage car that should have been in New Jersey was in Louisiana, fourteen hundred miles away.
So it is with our investment and retirement choices.
A careless poor decision can wreak havoc with consequences that reach further than you could ever imagine. This does not have to happen to you.