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Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life by Matthew Shepard, Elysha Dicks, Matthew Dicks

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atheron43's review

informative slow-paced

2.0

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.