The Man Who Gave His Morning Away

Most people don't lose their life all at once.

They give it away in pieces. The morning handed to whoever sent an email at midnight. The dream quietly shelved because someone who loved them asked if they'd really thought it through. The number that came out smaller than the one they meant to say. The decision that never quite got made.

The Man Who Gave His Morning Away is thirty-six short stories about the invisible forces that run your life when you're not paying attention - and what happens when you finally decide to pay attention.

These are not lectures. They are modern parables, drawn from one real, occasionally disastrous, stubbornly hopeful life. Each one is short enough to read before the coffee gets cold. Each one is honest enough to stay with you considerably longer than that.

You will recognize yourself in these pages. Possibly uncomfortably. Probably usefully.

There is a man here who has not yet made up his mind. A man who is very busy going nowhere. A man who has read extensively about failure and is about to meet it in person. A man who still doesn't go dancing.

He is working on it.

So, probably, are you.

These stories won't tell you who to become. They'll help you notice who you already are - and who you might still be.