CH. 01
Rocked to Sleep
How we got here. Why we stayed. What it costs to keep our eyes closed.
FIRST EDITION
A wake-up call for anyone who's been talked out of their own potential. Six chapters, one sitting — and probably the most useful, uncomfortable read of your year. Raw. Real. Ruthless.
| FORMATS | Paperback · Hardback · eBook |
| CHAPTERS | 6 |
| EDITION | First edition |
| PUBLISHER | English Woods · Tampa, FL |
Most "self-help" books are written by people standing on a chair telling you the floor isn't real. This isn't that. On Your Mark, Get Set, Grow is six chapters of a man working out — out loud, in plain language — the lies he's been told, the lies he's been telling, and the day he decided to stop.
It's a memoir. It's a manual. It's a wake-up call. It's the book you'll loan out and tell people to read.
Published by English Woods Publishing, the book carries the rhythm of plain talk: short hits, long breaths, repetition where you need it, and the kind of honesty you can only get when nobody's asking you to perform.
Read it once for you. Read it again with somebody who needs it. Keep it on the shelf where you can see it.
How we got here. Why we stayed. What it costs to keep our eyes closed.
Untangling what isn't yours from what is. Naming names.
Each one out loud, each one buried. No funeral.
Decide. Out loud. On paper. With a witness.
Build the room before you need it. Stack the deck on purpose.
Don't look down. Don't look back. Don't keep it to yourself.
Raw.
Real.
Ruthless.
Dion Parker is the founder and first author of English Woods Publishing. He started the press because the book he needed to write wasn't going to get made the way it needed to be made by anyone else.
On Your Mark, Get Set, Grow is his first title.