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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].

344 pages, Paperback

Published June 7, 2022

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About the author

Matthew Dicks

15 books1,048 followers
Matthew Dicks is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, Something Missing, Unexpectedly, Milo, The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs, and the upcoming novels The Other Mother and Cardboard Knight, as well as the nonfiction Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Art of Storytelling. His novels have been translated into more than 25 languages worldwide.

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend was the 2014 Dolly Gray Award winner and was nominated for a 2017 Nutmeg Award in Connecticut. Matthew was also awarded first prize in 2016 and second prize in 2017 in the Magazine/Humorous Column category by the CT Society of Professional Journalists.

He is also the author of the rock opera The Clowns and the musicals Caught in the Middle, Sticks & Stones, and Summertime. He has written comic books for Double Take comics. He is a columnist for Seasons magazine and has published work in Reader's Digest, The Hartford Courant, Parents magazine, The Huffington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor. He was awarded first prize for opinion writing in 2015 by the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists.

When not hunched over a computer screen, Matthew fills his days as an elementary school teacher, a storyteller, a speaking coach, a blogger, a wedding DJ, a minister, a life coach, and a Lord of Sealand. He has been teaching for 20 years and is a former West Hartford Teacher of the Year and a finalist for Connecticut Teacher of the Year.

Matthew is a 35-time Moth StorySLAM champion and 5-time GrandSLAM champion whose stories have been featured on their nationally syndicated Moth Radio Hour and their weekly podcast. He has also told stories for This American Life, TED, The Colin McEnroe Show, The Story Collider, The Liar Show, Literary Death Match, The Mouth, and many others. He has performed in such venues as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Wilbur Theater, The Academy of Music in North Hampton, CT, The Bynam Theater of Pittsburgh, The Bell House in NYC, The Lebanon Opera House, Boston University, and Infinity Hall in Hartford, CT.

He is a regular guest on several Slate podcasts, including The Gist, where he teaches storytelling.

Matthew is also the co-founder and creative director of Speak Up, a Hartford-based storytelling organization that produces shows throughout New England. He teaches storytelling and public speaking to individuals, corporations, and school districts around the world. He has most recently taught at Yale University, The University of Connecticut Law School, Purdue University, The Connecticut Historical Society, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Miss Porter's School, The Berkshire School, and Graded School in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Matthew is the creator and co-host of Boy vs. Girl, a podcast about gender and gender stereotypes.

Matthew is married to friend and fellow teacher, Elysha, and they have two children, Clara and Charlie. He grew up in the small town of Blackstone, Massachusetts, where he made a name for himself by dying twice before the age of eighteen and becoming the first student in his high school to be suspended for inciting riot upon himself.

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1 review1 follower
November 10, 2022
The major irony of this book is that the author preaches not wasting a single minute of your life...while wasting hours of the reader's. The idea is good, but the delivery is extremely poor. I had my notebook out and was excited to get this book from the library, but there was nothing worth jotting down through 8 chapters, so I finally threw in the towel. It's cringeworthy reading throughout, as the author overdramatizes and repeats (and repeats, and repeats...) things from his past, talks about himself in the 3rd person, changes two words from an author's quote and lists it as his quote, puts himself in lists with Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, President Obama, and Taylor Swift, and spends multiple pages detailing which housekeeping tasks he does and which ones his wife does (I wish I was joking). This list of these types of unbearable things is endless. The main reason I'm bothering to leave a review is because I wish someone had written a review like this prior to my reading it, so I wouldn't have wasted my time.
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1,111 reviews1,492 followers
September 17, 2023
Listened to this one as an audibook 🔊

I decided to give this book a chance as it was a recommendation from Ali Abdaal who I love as a productivity person but as a reader I think our tastes are very different. The last few books he recommended, and I did read were just not that good.

I don't think the book has any life changing tips and the author is just so pretentious and pompous that it makes it a torture to go through the book. I can bet you a lot of money that the author's favorite person is himself! And he likes to tell us about he does everything perfectly.

I expected more useful tips from this book. I was hoping for something that may give you a push to do stuff that you have been procrastinating as I had that feeling from the title. Instead, the author gives a lot of personal examples and obvious stuff that does not need a genius to figure out. It was also too long as the main concept is that you need to think of time as a currency and try to save as much time as possible for the more important things. (The author got the skill to floss his teeth and shower in under 5 mins!). I think it is clear that I was not a big fan of the book but to be fair. I thought Dicks has some skills writing fiction and then found out that he indeed had some fiction stories that may be worth checking out.
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18 reviews
December 27, 2022
There are definitely a lot of helpful tips and reminders in this book that I plan to implement in my life, so it’s a good book in that sense. I’m giving it three stars because I wasn’t a huge fan of the way he approached a lot of the writing. It’s very repetitive. We hear about how he used to work at McDonalds, got held up at gunpoint, lived out of his car, had a group of anonymous people try to derail his career, doesn’t have a relationship with his father, is a VERY successful creative, blah blah blah from about an average of 20 times each. We get it. He does say that he doesn’t expect every bit of his advice will work for everyone but he also calls people who don’t follow his advice stupid. Some of his advice, while helpful if you can do it, is also pretty privileged (ie hiring people to do things you don’t want to do so you have more time for other things). He also recommends breaking rules and includes examples can be dangerous in certain situations (ignoring signs and ropes that say not to cross, doing things that he could get away with as a white man but that could get, say, a black teenager arrested or worse) or downright disrespectful to other people.

TLDR: I still recommend reading the book to get out of it what you can, but take certain things with a grain of salt, and just accept that he’s an asshole (or at least comes off like one).
1 review1 follower
January 9, 2023
As many other readers agree, this book is a ridiculous waste of time and pages. Unfortunately I had not read the reviews before picking it up, so I would like to spare you.

The author boasts about having written parts of this book in the spare 10 minutes while he waits for his kids to get ready before leaving the house. Let me just say that this is clearly evident in his poor writing and repetition of unhelpful ideas, simply to fill pages. The book talks about not wasting time although reading it has been the worst use of my time, which makes me think that the author is borderline fraudulent!
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1 review
November 25, 2023
I'd give this 0 stars if I could. Moral of the story- don't waste your time. Ironically, I've wasted hours of my life reading this.
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89 reviews15 followers
March 6, 2024
I wish Goodreads allowed readers to give out negative star ratings. It would be entirely appropriate to issue them here. The author spends way too much time bragging about how amazing he is, and when not patting himself on the back, he's pounding it into the reader's skull that the whole point of life is not to waste time. So do as the self-appointed guru says, and don't bother to read this book. Spend your precious time on something worthy. The end.
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24 reviews4 followers
January 7, 2024
Yikes. To think Ali Abdaal said this was one of his most influential. Perhaps he should start questioning his ethics and morality (as he and the author are friends) in recommending to his audience. Especially since this feels like the antithesis to “feel good productivity” - Dicks suggests maximizing the small time between menial tasks to work and produce!

The book is filled with self-aggrandizement (if Dicks could break his own arm to pat himself on the back, he would) and soul crushing, shallow, obvious productivity tips. You know that 5 minutes you have to ruminate about your poor life decisions in between picking up your coffee order? You better start using that to write or work on your project! 5 minutes in the toilet? It’s now your makeshift workstation.

Save yourself the trouble - read something else that isn’t pastiche.
129 reviews
July 27, 2022
A self help book that will help you help yourself pretty goodly. I will not do everything that Matthew Dicks suggests but I will implement most of his suggestions. Matthew is in beast mode for most aspects of his life and work. Reading about how he manages time and the amount of stuff he has on the go can be intimidating. I don't want to be the author, but I will use him as inspiration. The book is truly full of actionable ideas to train you to manage your time and pursue your goals. Half way through the book, I emailed Matthew to ask a few questions and he responded with a very nice email. He is the real deal and his book is quality.
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28 reviews
June 25, 2023
The author makes excellent points. However, it could be a shorter book with less short stories about his daily routine or his wife. In addition, some of the stories don’t correlate well with the point he is trying to present. It has great philosophical points to make changes, but lack of well developed examples and guidance of n how to apply things practically.
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673 reviews1 follower
June 28, 2023
I really like this guy. And though his manner was off-putting, he came off as an arrogant know-it-all, he's earned his confidence and talks very respectfully of his wife so I'll let it go. But he definitely thinks his way is the RIGHT way.

Audiobook. I've listened to it for a few weeks. The main point that sticks with me days later is his suggestion to capitalize on the little 5 and 10 minutes periods of your life where you are waiting. Don't sit there waiting for the person to be ready so you can leave; unload the dishwasher, add a few sentences to your book (in his case). Don't waste precious time. And it's true, we can fit so much more in our day.

Say yes, even though it's trending to say NO. You'll open up your life to so many more opportunities. Try something new.

Don't wait for the perfect conditions to work on your goal. His example was a Writer's Retreat in upstate New York four hours away. They gave you warm snacks outside your cute cabin and had bonfires in the night to discuss your work. You don't need that. You've already wasted 8 hours of travel time that you could have been writing hunkered down at the library next door. It's fluff and unnecessary, though sounds good to others and is a great moneymaker.

"Not everything needs to be a Thing". You don't have to turn everything into a show-stopping event. Making something out of everything. Ex: chef making guac at your table rather than the kitchen, so your conversation is interrupted so he can do his job, Wedding reception that have signature drinks named after the bride and groom, travel soccer teams that have high costs for families. It's all about profits and we fall for it. His rant on this is really funny.

Ask people what their interests are and try them yourself. To become more creative is to expand your interests across disciplines. But we can't often see what other realms would be worth exploring. Ask your friends and colleagues to come up with what areas of interest they think you should pursue. a book, a film, a podcast, a food to try. "An interest of yours that you think I should try."

And the biggest one of all. "You can't afford to be a pessimist" That whole chapter. Need to read 100x and rethink my approach to life and people.



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36 reviews3 followers
January 2, 2023
It was definitely worth a full read despite a very slow and rambling start. I’ll be trying out the action plans in the Appendix so may adjust my rating later. I have to admit the first Part of the book felt completely unnecessary because it seemed filled with a lot of lengthy explanations about how saving a half-hour doing something more efficiently translates into “x” number of days or months per year. The advice that walking fast saves your time for other things is not surprising to anyone who has learned to walk and needed to solve the eternal human problem of moving their body from point A to point B.

I loved Storyworthy immensely so I probably was expecting too much in comparison. I would say this book is more of another approach to his memoir seen through the lens of productivity and creativity strategies vs a self improvement book. That is evidenced with the repeated references to the same anecdotes. Felt like this really could have benefitted from one more round of editing (and perhaps like his poetry class example) with a specific focus on respecting the reader’s time by being more concise.
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17 reviews2 followers
May 13, 2023
Are there some good tips at the beginning? Yes.
Is the author a pompous ass? Also yes.

He’s super judgy and clearly does not think highly of his wife, and does a lot of “laugh along with me at how dumb she is” (my quote, not his) and I just can’t stand that. He thinks he’s absolutely hilarious when he makes degrading comments about others (I.e absolute monsters, ridiculous and stupid, and these are his words) but I can’t imagine they come across as funny when reading, especially if the own author himself reading his own words in the audiobook fell super flat.

It’s repetitive, and really loses its way around the halfway point to a book that just wants to talk about himself. Half the things didn’t make sense, like when he takes 100 second showers, and then goes on to say he does certain things for the first and second full minutes of his showers. The math ain’t mathin’ there my dude.

The summary appendix really could have been the full book and it would have been way shorter and more useful.
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Author 2 books31 followers
July 1, 2022
Someday is Today, by Matthew Dicks does not disappoint! If you are looking for any of the following:
• “22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel your Creative Life,” or…
• Entertaining true-life stories by a master storyteller that will make you laugh, smile, think, or…
• Inspiration to do everything you always wanted to do but thought you didn’t have time to do, or…
• Specific strategies for saving precious minutes, hours, days, and aggravation, or…
• A window into the life/mind/of the talented, hilarious, author who if you believe the afterword (and I do), is “not a crackpot” … then this book is for you.

You will want your own copy to highlight and reread. (And there’s even an action plan in the back of the book. And you’ll want to read Matthew Dicks’ other books (fiction and nonfiction) and check out his storytelling videos. Brilliant/talented guy!

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89 reviews
December 28, 2023
I hoped to enjoy this book, especially after loving StoryWorthy, but unfortunately, it didn't measure up.

Matt unintentionally comes off as repetitive, a personal point that might not bother everyone. The constant self-labeling as a "Hawk" felt a bit off to me, almost like a high school quarterback vibe. He could have conveyed the same idea more subtly, like stating his big-picture orientation and his wife's detail-oriented approach.

The initial part, "Time," began strong, but around Chapter 4, it felt like listening to a highly functional depressive person.

The book improves in later chapters, but I wouldn't recommend it if you're not already a fan of Matthew. While I adore him as an author, this book falls short of his best work in my opinion.
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15 reviews
December 19, 2023
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand, small, uncaring ways.

Or be like everyone else and go nowhere.

A diverse set of experiences opens up a host of unpredictable possibilities.

Stuff begets stuff.

Your finish line should not be a fixed point in space but a horizon of possibilities.

Judge the work, not the person.

We cannot wait for the world to recognize our achievements. We can't depend on the world to take care of us. We must be willing to take care of ourselves.

The making should be ordinary. The results should be extraordinary.
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57 reviews
September 10, 2023
Some of it made me cringe, but that doesn't mean there weren't some useful ideas - some original and some rehashed.
I did really like his advice around using the small pockets of time in your day to find time to work on creative projects. I've always disregarded 10 minutes as not enough time to "get into it" - but this book has inspired me to try to make better use of those pockets of time, because with two young kids, that's all I have some day.s
7 reviews1 follower
February 18, 2023
“What would your 100 year old think, say , or do?”

had to skim some parts of the book on my first read as I thought some of the writing was a rehash of earlier information in the book.

It’s a book that espouses ideas of squeezing the most out of everyday so that the creator, maker, or do-er can get to the act of working on their project, be it business or book.
2 reviews
January 29, 2023
As other users here mentioned its funny that the author teaches us about not wasting time and yet wastes the readers time by making the book longer as it had to be.

I liked the first chapters and got actually really inspired to waste less time, but as I continued the read I got more and more bored until I had to force myself to even finish it.

I liked that he did a small conclusion of the most important points at the end of the book.

But once he started to be angry for people not wearing masks and when he kept writing about white privilege I somehow felt less inclined to think of him as someone who can teach me something.

Did I get something useful out of the book? Yes
Was is life changing by any means? No

Would I recommend it to someone? Not really
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Author 1 book31 followers
November 19, 2023
Are we back in 2010? This reads like the productivity toxic books of the past with a constant reminder of how saving one minute here is equal to x many hours over a year.

Don't waste a single minute on anything not productive. Waiting for your kids to put their shoes on? Make sure those 10 minutes are spent writing or working or anything except being as unproductive as just sitting and waiting for your kids to finish.

A big focus is on using pockets of time towards a goal, which is a great concept. We move forward during imperfect moments, but Dicks takes it way too far. He has a goal of showering and shaving in under 100 seconds and counts ALOUD to keep him on track. "That’s an extra 36.5 hours over a year. An extra day and a half to accomplish my goals while other people are naked and soapy."

I know that his whole thing is that he is a storyteller, but my goodness I could have done with less of it. This book could have been a bulletproof list, and the stories told of actual humans felt like they were just told to show how much better he is than other people. This includes his wife.

His wife writes his forward, which is a lovely idea but ends up as a summary of how terrible she is and how great he is. After reading this book, we'll be as good as him even if we start out as bad as she is. These steps will work for anyone, except her. She'll never be able to change because that's who she is ("a particular drive that Matt possesses and I do not").

Some good points sprinkled throughout the book (100-year-old self, the difference between wanting to write and wanting to have written, not waiting for perfection, treating time as valuable). Reading only the Appendix (Chapter-by-Chapter Action Plans) will cover all of them without having to slog through toxic productivity and sentence after sentence about how great the author is.

"I’ve never actually used a semicolon in my life. I don’t have time for that nonsense."

I prefer to live in a world where my time is spent on pleasure too, and is not judged by how productive I am. And a life full of semicolons ;;;
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5 reviews
January 28, 2023
The book is a bit longer than it needed to be. Matthew has some interesting stories and there are some good tips in here though. I did find myself just wanting to get through the book to finish it rather than wishing it was longer.
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406 reviews
May 12, 2023
I read this book this week because the pool was closed for repairs and I used the time i would have spent there reading instead. Already a Matthew Dicks fan from reading his fiction and attending several of his talks about his books, this book was a surprise. I knew about his storytelling from his talks, but not his consulting or this book. I read about this book and decided I was ready for it. A scary strategy Dicks recommends is to look at your life from the perspective of your one-hundred-year-old self. One example he presents applying this concept is the woman who plans to write a book. She has identified her ideal writing space and the beverage and snacks for her endeavor, but she has actually written nothing. I had already determined that I am a lot like this woman. I want to write a mystery. I have started doing my research. I saved newspaper clippings about real murders, life style articles about how my fictitious characters might live, and interviews with mystery writers. I also read mystery fiction and how to write books. Just before I started reading this book, I had decided I needed to read less and write more. Dicks reinforced that decision. His other big takeaway for me was to remind me that I'm a timewaster. Ironically, my years ago first job in Connecticut was as a work measurement analyst. I timed people doing routine insurance company jobs and recommended improvements. Dicks reminded me that I can find the time to write my book. OK, so why didn't I rate this really good book as 5 Stars? I thought it was too repetitious- some of the stories used as examples kept reappearing more than twice.
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Author 3 books28 followers
January 24, 2023
I really loved this book. Not only is Matthew Dicks a charming and no-nonsense writer (and narrator), he's inspiring. There is a lot of knowledge crammed into this book. You could do a lot worse than to try everything.

A+++
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39 reviews1 follower
November 22, 2023
This book reads as more of an autobiography than as "actionable ways to propel your creative life". I often had the impression that the author is deeply insecure about himself - perhaps due to a negligent father whose attention he sought as a child. There are also many points he makes that I disagree with, such as when he writes:

"This poor guy actually thinks that people care what he looks like while shopping on a Saturday morning. He thinks they will remember a day later what he looked like. He's not alone, of course. But the less you care about your physical appearance, the more productive you can be. And caring less is a good idea in many, many cases. Perhaps not when you are meeting with a client or making a presentation or attending your cousin's wedding, but in your day-to-day existence, caring less is good, because no one ever cares as much as you think."

Perhaps not being overly obsessive about the way you look or dress is good, but caring too little about one's appearance in the name of productivity seems like a bad choice to me. It's the reason so many people travel to France or Italy, where a slight emphasis is put on being well dressed instead of being an absolute slob just to be able to work more efficiently. It's possible to do both.

I did appreciate the chapter on being an optimist. In particular, I appreciated the following paragraph:

"'Throwing my present to the future' is based upon the assumption that many of the problems we face today are temporary, fleeting, and ultimately forgettable, but in the moment, they can feel awful, momentous, and painful. In these cases, I try to avoid those negative feelings by acknowledging that the problem will be irrelevant in a day or a week or even a month and then pretending that the next day, week, or month has already arrived. The future is often better than the problematic present, so maintaining an awareness of that more pleasant future and assuming the emotional disposition of that future version of yourself can alleviate the short-term suffering caused by troublesome but temporary struggles."

Overall there were some good gems in this book, but it's unfortunate that it read as an autobiography and so much of it was founded on self praise.
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15 reviews
November 27, 2023
There are a lot of good things in this book. But he tells how to save 32 seconds here and 5 minutes her, but then wastes 30 minutes of ours to say he is writing this sentence while someone is not doing anything productive-over and over. He could've just drove the point home that when he said he was writing in the parking lot or for a couple minute waiting for someone. There's times he goes on and on about his accomplishments, but in a way that is boasting and not modest. In the beginning I wished for more examples of his ideas outside of himself doing them. He chastises people for putting borders on corkboards-he doesn't have time for it. I realize it's not for everyone, but I get if something looks nice, I tend to go back to it more often and utilizing it-plus it's sometimes a creative outlet. He tells an older woman she better to get to writing implying she'll die soon if she doesn't and doesn't believe she ever wrote anything. Probably not after saying such a thing-I'd be discouraged too. But then he has a chapter on not being an asshole and one on being an optimistic. Matthew judges a man for copying an all ready published book as a waste of time-but the man went on to write other things. Matthew did several things for years before writing. Maybe the man did it as an exercise to get in the habit of writing, get over the fear of the blank page, or maybe it's made up as Matt thinks. But maybe it did get him writing sooner, and not the complete waste of time Matt judges it to be. We all waste time and I get trying to reduce that. I like hearing how people reduce the time of recurring or find the time to do things in the minutes between life. He says for creators to create but then judges for someone making something nice as a waste of 15 minutes that he doesn't have because there's no reason for it. But unless you know someones motivations for doing something seemingly wasteful, it's not our place to judge. If it was edited down to the most useful portions and the parts that I did really like, I could've saved myself about 137 minutes. But the action plan in the back is nice, and wish the book was just that, plus some examples of more than just him to drive the point home.
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522 reviews12 followers
September 7, 2022
I don't read a lot of nonfiction, but I'm a huge fan of Matthew Dicks and I'll read anything and everything by him. Someday is Today is thoughtful, insightful, helpful, and beautifully written. Reflecting Dicks' masterful storytelling skills, the book is liberally sprinkled with personal stories, making it almost autobiographical in nature. It's also filled with clear examples and guidelines on how to have a more meaningful and productive life.

I loved the chapter at the end, in which Dicks invited a friend of his to essentially contradict everything he said. I will add another subtle counterpoint: while I truly loved the book and think it's masterful, I do believe it's primarily relevant to a younger person -- younger than me, that is -- someone who is at the beginning or in the early stages of finding their life's direction, building their family and career, etc. For a senior like me, figuring out how to manage time and "get stuff done" is not my main challenge. I would love to see what kind of book Dicks write when he's, say, in his 70's. Of course, I'll probably be gone by then, but I bet it will be fabulous. I imagine he'll say that we can still be a Super Cow in our 70's, but the steps to Super Cow-ness will probably be somewhat different.

I highly recommend Someday as a helpful, thought-provoking, and very enjoyable read. Teachers and writers will especially enjoy it.
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46 reviews
December 17, 2023
3.5 Stars:

Like many, I picked this up on the recommendation of Ali. There are many valuable things that I take away from this book, but it takes patience and an effort not to roll my eyes at things that were repeated until the point of annoyance throughout the book. I get there are experiences that shape us forever, but I don't feel like the points of this book were made any better by constantly mentioning the traumas the author is carrying. He already had my sympathies the first time he told his story and I do wish him the very best.

The first chapters could have been edited down, with fewer examples. Part 2 and chapters 16, 18, and 22 are the best imo and the summary at the end will be of great help.

I gotta say something about the example of letting one spouse handle all the money and finances while the other handles appointments for haircuts and lawn mowing though. Please exercise your own discretion before assuming this is a good example to mirror. One of the core responsibilities to assume for yourself as an adult is knowing the basics of your own finances. If you don't even know how to check how much money is in your account, you may be setting yourself up for major trouble even if the other person has the best intentions. Shit happens. Hope for the best, but do not get caught off guard on this one.

Listened to as audiobook.
1 review
October 23, 2023
"Someday is today" by Mathew Dicks is a compelling and an engaging read to tweak your life with powerful 22 simple and actionable ways. The book will change your relationship with time as well your approach towards your life. The 22 ways suggested by the author can sometimes feel too much to actually inculcate but the ideas presented behind each method and strings of story lines attached to them simple proves that one can achieve if one is determined to take time diligently and life seriously. I bet that you will be blown away from the initial chapter which talks about 100 year old of yourself. Your future is more capable and sensible of making great decision for yourself rather than your present which is swayed away by the short term moment, emotions and self doubts. Having the view of 100 years old of yourself at the back side of your brain can actually boost your decision making abilities and propels a satisfaction with your life which will be achieved by your 100 year old self. The book is a must read for anyone who wants to form a strong outlook towards life and especially one's invaluable life-time.
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