Get a Life! How to Get the Edge in Life and Keep it!

Featuring inspirational quotations, life skills and exercises, this guide is designed for 16-24-year-olds who want to live their life as a series of opportunities to explore rather than as a series of predicaments to get out of.

Young people, from school leavers to university graduates, are unclear about their futures.

For many, there is a profound unease about becoming adult in a world of no guaranteed work, an ever-increasing demand for new skills and rapid social change.

For some, their world view may already be one of resignation and cynicism. This volume argues that life isn't something that just happens, but is something to be made to happen.

Success, friendship and a sense of achievement are available to every person who is prepared to commit themselves to achieving their goals. This is a workbook of life skills for young people, who are determined to succeed in the next millennium.