Someday Is Today
22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life
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Someday Is Today
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Matthew Dicks
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Matthew Dicks
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Matthew Dicks
About this listen
REALIZE YOUR CREATIVE DREAMS—STARTING TODAY
Are you good at dreaming about what you’re going to accomplish “someday” but not good at finding the time and getting started? How will you actually make that decision and do it? The answer is this book, which offers proven, practical, and simple ways to turn random minutes throughout your days into pockets of productivity, and dreams into accomplishments.
In addition to presenting his own winning strategies for getting from dreaming to doing, Matthew Dicks offers insights from a wide range of creative people—writers, editors, performers, artists, and even magicians—on how to augment inspiration with motivation. His actionable steps will help you:
- silence negative messages from family, friends, and teachers
- eliminate time-sucking activities (and people)
- be willing to make terrible things
- find supporters here, there, and everywhere
- cultivate optimism in the face of negativity and obstacles
Each strategy is accompanied by amusing and inspiring personal and professional anecdotes and a clear plan of action. Someday Is Today will give you every tool to get started and finish that _________ [fill in the blank].
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Terrible world view, terrible advices, terrible book
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awful book
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Foremost, there are a lot of personal anecdotes that somehow are working out for the author, but might be outright dangerous to follow, such as eating while working (minless eating drives up obesity rates), or limiting sleep time (the list of problems here would be too long to write down). He himself sleep some absurd hours, and for what? For saving some time, of course. Time-saving activities such as optimizing seconds off dishwasher unloading time or spending fewer minutes in the shower are going to take up a huge chunk of the book, by the way. This book is pretty much anti-mindfulness. For most of the daily things you do, you need to look forward to finishing them ASAP, or find ways to combine them with other things for some "productive" multitasking action. Sounds like a recipe for anxiety to me.
The narration features only the ongoing state of his productive and optimized life, there's no path to this productivity peak, it's just "I do this", "I do that" etc. So if you want to use all the advice, you'll have to figure out yourself how to implement the details of, for example, limiting your social media time and sticking to these rules. There's no mention of personal failure or struggles on the way of this way of living.
One of the most narcissist bits for me was when the narration went on about different types of personality that he and his wife are. The author uses a situation of a work task that he completed faster than his wife to illustrate how their personalities differ. However, just completing the task faster was not enough. To really drive in the point of how much of a "productivity pro" he is, he is compelled to let us know that not only he was faster, but he also listened to an audiobook and won a bunch of money in online poker! Yay, what an awesome work ethics for a school teacher working on students' report cards.
Ah yes, and when he had to mention meditation, he had to go on for a while that he likes contact sports, is a cowboy and a manly man, because otherwise, I dunno, me might think something of him? Sir, this is meditation. Please calm down your masculine ego, nothing is threatening it.
Anyway, I have like 6 hours left on this book, and I just got to a chapter where he's suggesting to say "Yes" to everything, without any mention of possibly burying yourself in pleasing others' requests too much. Only "success" stories again. The last one I listened to was that he ended up working as a wedding minister and started baptizing babies, even though he is not religious himself. Really, is that what we've been saving dishwasher minutes for? Doing something that is not aligned with our personal values?
At this point, I'm ready to say "No" to this book and win 6 whole hours by not listening to it anymore.
Self-centered and not useful
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"Would you do X if it meant a staple in the eye? Of course you wouldn't!"
There's a section, early in the book, where he lists the different tasks that he and his poor old wife divide up. I was driving along in the car listening to this having just enjoyed a really engaging podcast and I found myself shouting at my phone "Oh my God! Who the hell cares!?"
In the next he starts opining about his wife wanting to go to a nursery to pick up cheap plants when there are 3 nurseries in their local area. He nags her that it's not worth the extra hour's drive. Dude, did you ever think it might not be about the price? Perhaps she just wants to get on the road and have a bit of a drive to somewhere different. But your time is so valuable you put your foot down.
And then there's the shopping! "My friend buys expensive olive oil from a shop that only sells olive oil. They're wrong and mental and should buy the stuff I buy from the shops". Let a guy enjoy a luxury item for God's sake! Stop sapping the little crackles of joy from people's life.
"Do I have time for an entire day a year to go shopping?" - Yes Matthew. One day out of 365 is a perfectly reasonable amount of time to buy groceries, you absolute headcase.
In conclusion, this is a man who needs to go to therapy and properly deal with his trauma, because there's something very dysfunctional and unresolved in his psyche. Please give me my credit back!
This guy's a storyteller?!
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Extremely expensive !!!!!!!!!!
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