Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life
Matthew Dicks is a teacher, novelist, and record holding Moth GrandSLAM winner, and Someday Is Today is his no excuses guide to finishing creative projects. He organizes the book around twenty two strategies, from tracking every minute of the day for a week to celebrating small wins in public. The advice is grounded in his own experience running a full time teaching career while writing novels, telling stories, and hosting a podcast, and he is candid about the tradeoffs he makes with sleep, television, and social life. Dicks argues that the biggest obstacle to a creative life is not talent but the endless deferral of the actual work. Ali Abdaal has recommended the book in his newsletter and productivity content as an unusually direct antidote to procrastination.
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Storyteller Matthew Dicks lays out twenty two practical strategies for stopping the delay of creative work and doing it today.
Abdaal has recommended Someday Is Today in his productivity content as one of the more direct and useful books on beating procrastination. He points to Dicks's own record of finishing books and stories while teaching full time as proof that the advice works.
No. The book is written for anyone with a creative project they keep deferring, from writers and musicians to weekend hobbyists, though full time creatives will find it useful too.
Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life was written by Matthew Dicks, published in 2022 by New World Library.
Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life is 264 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life takes most readers 4 to 6 hours to finish.
Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
