<human>: Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?

Finance has always been my weakest subject in life since I grew up not learning anytihng about it and inheriting poor habits from family about paying and $ and such.

A little overwhelmed with where to start but I figure I would start small to build momentum so I don't give up.

I downloaded mint and added my accounts and started changing some of the fields for my charges so it can track better. Not sure what else to do with mint or what to look for but at least now I can see easily where my money is going.

My next steps are to get health insurance, then some sort of retirement fund (self employed, currently have no funds).

Are there any other big things to do that create the most gain in knowledge or effectiveness? OR any tips on mint / etc.
<bot>: DL'ed mint and started tracking but don't know what exactly I should look at, and don't know what my next baby-steps are for most efficient personal-finance.