I’ve listed some of my favourite people and resources below…
Matthew Dicks
For making the most of your time, seizing opportunities, and learning how to connect through storytelling…
Matthew Dicks will help you get off your butt and take the first or next step towards that goal you’ve always said you want to achieve. After reading Someday is Today for several days, I went online, organised a domain name and set up the website I’d been wanting to do for ages but thought I didn’t have time for as a full-time teacher. Well Matthew Dicks is a full-time teacher too and it hasn’t slowed him up an iota. He will open up your mind and vision and let you see how much more you could be doing – things that you want to do. Read it immediately. Then take that first or next step of your goal. Thank me later (use the contact form to tell me how much it’s changed your life).
Matthew has even more to teach than getting things done and seizing the day. Well, have a look below…you’ll see what I mean.
Someday is Today will make you realise you have not got your s**t together as much as you thought. You will start to see how much you are wasting your time and how to be much more effective. Matt is focused on grabbing every spare moment and has managed to write novels and non-fiction books, be a speaker, a stand up comedian and a storyteller on stage, be a consultant to companies and many, many more things all while being a school teacher. After reading this book I was inspired to take action. I set up my website, started making helpful printables to sell, and began setting up a Youtube channel. I realised that if he can do all that he does while teaching full-time, so can I.
Storyworthy is an excellent book on how to make stories out of incidents that happen in life, and how to engage and connect with others through worthy stories – and they are worthy because you learn the skills to tell them better. I love Matthew’s work.
Sally Clarkson
For connecting with others in heartfelt ways, valuing friendships, and living and loving by example…
Sally Clarkson, and her daughters Sarah & Joy, are amazing at connecting with others and have an incredible relationship with each other and with their friends. I am not a natural socialiser and grew up feeling very shy and awkward so am learning how to do this in my 50s! You can learn a lot from them. Sally has a membership group, a podcast, is active on social media and has a lovely way of communicating with the world. She has many books, but these ones written with her daughters are well worth reading and learning from in relation to cultivating friendships and connection (although her other books delve deeply into this too).
Girls’ Club: Cultivating Lasting Friendship in a Lonely World
For someone who did not grow up cultivating lasting friendships, and found it difficult to initiate or sustain connections, this book was a godsend. Absolutely priceless by showing me what you can have as a friendship in your life. I love this book.
Girls’ Club Experience: A Guided Journey Into Friendship