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Someday Is Today

22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life

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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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        July 28, 2023
        As readers will probably expect from someone who teaches full-time, writes multitudes (from the non-fiction Storyworthy, 2018, to The Other Mother, 2020, and several other novels), and generally tells stories for a living, Dicks' guide to the creative life is endlessly entertaining. His advice is sometimes deliberately provocative, occasionally head-scratching, and often life-changing. It's hard to argue that, if we challenge ourselves to think like a 100-year-old person might, there's no such word as someday--just today. Some of the other ideas Dicks emphasizes: Minimize the time it takes to get places--if you want to be more productive, walk fast; remember that the purpose of a bed is sleep; limit decision making; avoid the black hole of addictive games. And on and on. He's not ashamed to borrow from the famous (such as Mark Twain's ""Life is short, break the rules . . ."") or challenge common assumptions about, for example, taking every meeting, messing with negative people, and saying yes to possibilities. Folks looking to shake up their creative lives will want to read this.

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