Life Strategies Learned From A Millennial Life Coach

By Brenda Young


The generation known as the Millennials are often thought of as entitled, lazy, and ignorant about many facets of everyday life. People from older generations often believe people in this age category live in their parents' basements and work part-time jobs while spending most of their times playing video games or browsing social media. While these broad characterizations are largely false, it is true that Millennials sometimes struggle with tasks that older generations take for granted. To learn what they need to know, people from this generation may find it helpful to hire a Millennial life coach.

In reality, these so-called coaches specialize in teaching people in their 20s and 30s multitudes of tasks associated with living independently. For starters, they teach the finer points of handling money. Studies have shown that Millennials struggle with everything from managing a checkbook to paying bills on time. Their coaches provide them with the foundation of solid money management so they can become independent adults.

Their coaches teach them how to balance their checkbooks and set up a schedule by which to pay their monthly bills. If their rent is due on the first of each month, for example, people learn to set aside money from the last of the month with which to pay their rent. Likewise, if their utilities are due during the middle of each month, they learn to use their first paycheck each month to satisfy these expenses.

Saving money can be particular important for Millennials. They are statistically behind Generation X when it comes to putting up savings for retirement or emergency purposes. Moreover, the concept of saving 10 percent of what they earn is entirely foreign to many of them. Coaches instruct them on the finer points of saving cash.

One of the tasks they may have to accomplish during their coaching involves opening a retirement savings account. This could be a 401k, Roth IRA, or another tax-exempt account. They then are instructed to put ten percent of whatever they earn each pay period into that account. They are told the money will come in useful for emergencies like car repairs, medical expenses, or retirement later.

Millennials are also statistically behind other generations when it comes to investing. Many of them are not aware of the finer points of investing. They are too afraid to venture into the stock market simply because they do not know what it takes to open an investment account.

Their coaches show them the basics of opening an account, finding stocks to invest in, and selling or buying new stocks as the market fluctuates. They can often achieve this without hiring a stockbroker to handle their accounts for them. There are websites set up for this purpose.

Navigating adult society is sometimes trickier than it looks for people of the Millennial generation. They grew up without many important life lessons at their disposal. They are just learning about them now by hiring a life coach who guides them through basic lessons in adulthood.




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