How To Stop Putting Off Your Life To “Someday” with Matthew Dicks
Outside The Studio with Tessa Tovar
English - September 17, 2022 02:30 - 58 minutes - 109 MBAlternative Health Health & Fitness Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
At the end of your life, what will you regret not doing? What do you keep putting off to a fictional "someday"? Well, someday is today. Matthew Dicks and Tessa discuss how to stop putting your life off to "someday" and how to make time and space for the life you actually
want to live. They explore how to make finding positive momentum easy, why you should record all the interesting ideas you hear, and how to take advantage of the way your body is built to boost your productivity.
Matthew Dicks is a teacher and the author of 11 books. He is a
53-time Moth StorySLAM champion.
Timestamps
(00:00) Who is Matthew Dicks?
(02:02) How do you start what you keep putting off?
(09:16) Why did Matthew write Someday is Today?
(10:48) What to do if you're uninspired?
(13:23) What if you can't outdo yourself? (and why you should constantly create)
(19:47) Someday is a terrible word
(22:22) Lessons from writing 11 books
(27:29) Why you aren't sleeping as much as you think you are
(34:14) Is curiosity the
enemy of productivity?
(48:50) The grand slam moth experience
(53:18) Regret is the worst feeling
5 Key Takeaways
1. When negative things happen, this is your cue to amplify the positive vibes in your life. It takes around 6 positive
cues to overcome one negative event. Have a place (like a document) where you can easily find positive things about yourself.
2. Take notes of the interesting things that people say to you. Much of creativity is about gathering the interesting ideas people present to you
and leveraging them when you need to invite inspiration into your life.
3. Have hope that you might surprise yourself. When you show up and create consistently, you'll create things that surprisingly resonate with others. You don't necessarily know what will be a
great hit with others and what will flop - your judgment could be totally off.
4. Don't discount small bursts of work when you have a few minutes of spare time.
5. If you become more disinterested in things that you don't need to be interested in, you'll
have more time to do things you're actually interested in doing.
Links
Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life by Matthew Dicks https://www.amazon.com/Someday-Today-Simple-Actionable-Creative/dp/1608687503
Your elusive creative genius - TED Talk by Elizabeth Gilbert https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_your_elusive_creative_genius
Moth.org
Connect With Matthew Dicks:
Website: https://matthewdicks.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-dicks-84a95711/
Connect With Tessa Tovar:
Website: https://tessatovar.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tessamarietovar/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessa-tovar-baa27613
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/TBenedicktus
At the end of your life, what will you regret not doing? What do you keep putting off to a fictional "someday"? Well, someday is today. Matthew Dicks and Tessa discuss how to stop putting your life off to "someday" and how to make time and space for the life you actually
want to live. They explore how to make finding positive momentum easy, why you should record all the interesting ideas you hear, and how to take advantage of the way your body is built to boost your productivity.
Matthew Dicks is a teacher and the author of 11 books. He is a
53-time Moth StorySLAM champion.
Timestamps
(00:00) Who is Matthew Dicks?
(02:02) How do you start what you keep putting off?
(09:16) Why did Matthew write Someday is Today?
(10:48) What to do if you're uninspired?
(13:23) What if you can't outdo yourself? (and why you should constantly create)
(19:47) Someday is a terrible word
(22:22) Lessons from writing 11 books
(27:29) Why you aren't sleeping as much as you think you are
(34:14) Is curiosity the
enemy of productivity?
(48:50) The grand slam moth experience
(53:18) Regret is the worst feeling
5 Key Takeaways
1. When negative things happen, this is your cue to amplify the positive vibes in your life. It takes around 6 positive
cues to overcome one negative event. Have a place (like a document) where you can easily find positive things about yourself.
2. Take notes of the interesting things that people say to you. Much of creativity is about gathering the interesting ideas people present to you
and leveraging them when you need to invite inspiration into your life.
3. Have hope that you might surprise yourself. When you show up and create consistently, you'll create things that surprisingly resonate with others. You don't necessarily know what will be a
great hit with others and what will flop - your judgment could be totally off.
4. Don't discount small bursts of work when you have a few minutes of spare time.
5. If you become more disinterested in things that you don't need to be interested in, you'll
have more time to do things you're actually interested in doing.
Links
Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life by Matthew Dicks https://www.amazon.com/Someday-Today-Simple-Actionable-Creative/dp/1608687503
Your elusive creative genius - TED Talk by Elizabeth Gilbert https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_your_elusive_creative_genius
Moth.org
Connect With Matthew Dicks:
Website: https://matthewdicks.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-dicks-84a95711/
Connect With Tessa Tovar:
Website: https://tessatovar.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tessamarietovar/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessa-tovar-baa27613
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/TBenedicktus