Thrive, Survive, Or Dive
The transition from student life to adult life is one of the most difficult transitions you will make in your life.
Did you know that only 5 percent of twenty-somethings thrive during their transition to independent adulthood, while 75 percent merely survive, and 20 percent dive?
Why is that? Because much of what you need to know wasn’t covered in the classroom. These essential life skills are difficult to develop on your own using a book or blog. Even if you have a plan, it’s likely vague or incomplete. Simply put, you don’t know what you don’t know.
There are HUGE costs to being in the survive and dive group during your twenties. We conservatively estimate the cost to be over $120,000 when considering career missteps and stagnation, poor financial decisions, and missed investment opportunities. Compounded over a lifetime, the cost of missteps in your twenties can top $1 million!
Uninformed decisions made at the start of your career can take years to correct. Some you may never fully recover from.
When your future is at stake, do you really want to go it alone?
We use five questions to predict your relative success or failure as a twenty-something:
- How deep is your personal finance knowledge and do you have a system in place to maximize your financial results?
- Have you taken an objective ability test and used the results to guide your career decisions?
- Do you have a professional development plan?
- How well do you tell your story and deliver your “elevator pitch”?
- How many quality relationships do you have outside of family members and other twenty-somethings?
How good is your plan? What’s your future going to look like?