Matthew Dicks is a storyteller, communications consultant, and author of 'Someday is Today.' He shares powerful tactics to boost creativity and productivity, including thinking in minutes and adopting an 'eagle mindset' for challenging norms. Dicks advocates for self-reflection and the concept of a 100-year vision to prioritize long-term goals. His quirky ideas, like flossing in the shower, highlight the importance of creativity in routine. He emphasizes letting go of perfectionism and embracing benign neglect in both personal and professional spheres.
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100-Year Plan
Develop a 100-year plan and ask your future self how to spend your time.
This long-term perspective helps prioritize important goals and avoid short-term distractions.
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Think in Minutes
Think about your life in minutes, not hours or days.
This helps you utilize small pockets of time productively instead of wasting them.
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Prioritizing Time
Matthew Dicks chose to live five minutes from his work.
He prioritized time over a larger house to maximize time for creative pursuits and family.
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Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
Matthew Dicks
In 'Storyworthy,' Matthew Dicks provides a comprehensive guide on the art of storytelling. The book is divided into three parts: Finding your story, Crafting your story, and Telling your story. Dicks shares his own stories to illustrate key points and offers tips and exercises to help readers improve their storytelling skills. He emphasizes the importance of identifying a 'five-second moment' of transformation or realization in every story and provides techniques for making stories engaging and memorable. The book is designed to help anyone become a better storyteller, whether for personal or professional purposes, and highlights how storytelling can deepen connections with others and enhance one's own life[1][3][5].
Someday Is Today
22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life
Matthew Dicks
This book provides 22 simple and actionable ways to enhance productivity and turn dreams into accomplishments. Matthew Dicks shares his own strategies and insights from various creative people, including writers, editors, performers, artists, and magicians. The book helps readers silence negative messages, eliminate time-wasting activities, find supporters, and cultivate optimism. It emphasizes the importance of managing time effectively and living a more meaningful life by aligning daily actions with long-term goals and values.
Matthew Dicks wears a lot of hats. Among other things, he's a storyteller, communications consultant, writer, and schoolteacher. In order to excel in his professional life, as well as do what he loves in his personal life, he's developed a set of strategies that help him be more creative and productive, and can be used by anyone who wants to start making the most of life.
Matt writes about these tactics and mindset shifts in his latest book Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life, and he shares some of them with us today on the show, including why you need to think in minutes, be an eagle rather than a mouse, practice deliberate incuriosity, and always do your best to act like a decent human being. Along the way, Matt and I talk about why you should floss in the shower and how restaurants that make guacamole at your table are a great example of the folly of making a thing, a thing.
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