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.

Coaches also teach pupils to save money to put in a savings account or toward retirement. For some people in this generation, they have never heard of the rule of saving 10 percent of their income each time they get paid. They spend all of their money instead of putting some up in case of emergencies or for later uses like retirement.

In fact, some coaches have their students open IRAs, 401k accounts, or savings accounts at their bank. Once these accounts are open, students then take 10 percent of their earnings each pay period and put it into them. They learn in a short period of time that the funds will come in useful during emergencies and for later use such as when they retire and are no longer able to work.

Investing is another big challenge many of them are led to tackle on their own. Coaches may advise them on the importance of having investments at their disposal. Millennials many times avoid the stock market because it looks and sounds intimidating or they believe you need to hire a stock broker to do it for you.

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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