The Tug-of-Life: How to identify your challenges, choices and solutions in adolescence, love, work, health, parenting and more: How to identify your challenges, ... in adolescence, (Life Talk Book 4)

An entertaining and unique ‘game plan for life’ that helps you to identify challenges and solutions in a thought-provoking and fun way, from the best-selling author of the Life Talk series, Izabella Little-Gates.

Izabella’s distinct and non-judgemental style personalizes life’s challenges, helps you identify your choices, tackles life’s challenges and dilemmas, and highlights effective solutions and plans of action.

Wherever choices or dilemmas exist, you’ll find a tug-of-life ‘contest’.
For adolescents and adults of all ages
Empowers you to take control of your life
Simple and easy-to-understand concepts
Helps you to be proactive
Provides you with new vocabulary that helps you to map out what’s happening on your life’s field.
Focuses on enhancing your happiness, success and fulfilment
Assists you to achieve the goals and outcomes that you strive for

‘Packed with wisdom and provides invaluable instruction from teenhood to tottering old age’ Tony Grogan, illustrator and writer
‘An absolutely amazing book, it is my wish that every young and old person reads it!’ N. Ngcobo, reporter, Daily Sun
‘An easy and fun way of mapping out the challenges we face in life.  A return to values approach which is so needed in our fast-paced lives.’ Angelique Serrao, journalist, The Star
‘When the stakes are high, as they are in each of the areas identified, how you ‘tug’, and which Galvanizers you invite onto your team is often literally a matter of life and death.’ C. Hunter, therapist

‘A fab, fun, entertaining, easy to read book! It’s methodology empowers us to take back control of our lives.’ Jenny Oertel

The Tug-of-Life stimulates debate about choices and consequences. Its solution-driven approach tackles specific dilemmas to help you achieve a smoother and happier life.

Topics range from everyday matters such as values, relationships, careers and keeping healthy, to pressing concerns like drugs, alcohol abuse, crime, peer pressure, AIDS and high divorce rates. The Tug-of-Life’s sections cover the scenarios and contestants that take part in the:
Tug-of-Teens; Tug-of-Young Adults; Tug-of-Work; Tug-of-Marriage; Tug-of-Health; Tug-of-Spirit; Tug-of-Environment; Tug-of-Parenting; Tug-of-Age
The Tug-of-Life provides an opportunity to start tugging for the future each of us aspires to! Tough as many of life’s challenges are, so many of them are totally solvable or avoidable. If we all (as individuals and society) identify our ‘contests’, we can be proactive and we can Galvanize into tugging where it counts. The Tug-of-Life’s solution-driven methodology empowers everyone to do just that!

What’s your game plan when you step onto the playing-field of life? Will you harness every Galvanizer you can find or will you let the Challengers overpower you?