I wanted to like this book but it felt like something that I have already read before. I couldn't finish it.

I gave this book a decent chance and I have come to the conclusion that while the writer’s intention was noble, this work was not nearly as philosophical or thoughtful as I thought it would be.

In many ways, it seemed to be a motivational tool that fell short. Too theoretical and not practical enough.

It didn’t and wouldn’t work for me.

I honestly could not have cared less for this book, when I originally requested to read this book I really wanted to be interested and I wanted to get out of my comfort zone and spread my wings. But in the end I couldn’t pick up this book and I doubt I will ever.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for this opportunity

A decent entry in the "carpe diem" subgenre that may help some people find motivation they need to make changes. It takes the ease of making big changes a little too much for granted (from a class/financial perspective), but I've yet to read a book in this particular mode that doesn't.

A great book that really gets the head working. If you are wavering, pick it up and read it. It's well worth it.

It is a nice book about seising the day. For me it became a little abstrakt and for me it feelt strange to try to follow the books teaching. Maybe this is a book for someone in a different life situation than me.

This is a book I will continue to come back to again and again. It isn’t a read and put down and never pick back up again kind of book.

I enjoyed reading Sam Horn's Someday Is Not a Day in the Week. She tells lots of stories that help put her advice into context, and the chapters are short and easily digestable.
My favorite takeaway from this book is actually not one that Horn discussed in depth in the book, but it showed through each story she gave. There is no one way to fix your life. There are a multitude of ways, some large and some small. What worked for someone else may not work for you. It was a refreshing way to look at change.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and to NetGalley for a digital copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

I was excited to be approved to read Someday is Not a Day of the Week. Being more productive and goal oriented is something that I have been wanting to achieve this year. There are several exercises that you can do to gauge your happiness levels and in turn, come up with a plan of action. The examples and passages are written simply and are easily relatable. We all tend to come to a point in our lives where we feel “stuck”. It’s good to have a book that will give you the motivation you need to make a change and really find your purpose. I bought a few copies for friends of mine, and once we complete the exercises, we discuss what we’ve learned. It’s a real eye-opening book that I highly recommend.
Thank you Netgalley, The Author and Publisher for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I started reading this book not knowing whether it would be helpful to me or just re-packaged fluff. I'm very happy to report that I was pleasantly surprised, and plan to keep "Someday is Not a Day in the Week" on hand for future reference. Lots of good information that can be applied in real life, and I found a number of ideas that will be helpful to me in my current situation. Thank you #NetGalley and #StMartinPress for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

My life seems to be in a fairly even period, and I’m reasonably content with my job, so I wasn’t expecting any great revelations, as I have read similar books in the past. However, the first chapter was an eye opener. When I wrote down the four categories the author suggested, and filled them in, I was astonished to see how many things I would be happy to change.

The author scatters personal stories throughout of ways people have managed to change their lives for the better, and wraps all her suggestions around the experiences she had of taking a year to do something she really wanted to do as she continued to work.

I highly recommend this book as it offers some wonderful suggestions for improving the quality of your life.

This book might be excellent for many readers, I found it was not to miy liking. I do like the premise quite a bit.

It is important to remember that promising to follow a dream “someday” never works because Someday is Not a Day in the Week.

This book gives ten life hacks that can help you align your ultimate goals with your current reality. Are the life hacks new ideas that you have never heard before? No. However, the author has an enthusiasm for them that is contagious. The book is motivating! Unfortunately, it is aimed a bit toward the well-off members of society. For example, I can’t quit my job until I put in the 30 years necessary to get my pension plus I have to wait until I’m old enough for Medicare, which is a long time from now. I wish I could just jump off that cliff with the knowledge that my family will support me like a parachute. However, that is not reality and the book encourages thinking realistically about how to implement your goals. If you are in a position to take that first step to finding a job that brings you joy, Someday is Not a Day in the Week is the perfect book to motivate you to do it sooner rather than later. 4 stars!

Thanks to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for an honest review.

Have you ever felt that you were reading exactly the right book at exactly right time in your life? I read this NetGalley preview while in Costa Rica searching my soul trying to decide if this was the location of my future.

Sam Horn is a great writer (though for some reason I thought she was a he, but it makes no difference). Her interweaving of fact and real life tales reeled me in like a fish on a hook, and she played with me just enough to keep me hooked right until the end when she released me back to the ocean to discover my own future.

I've never read a book with which I could identify with so much and which really made me think like this one has. If you're looking for a change and want to break out from the confines of your status quo life, read this book. It won't tell you how to do it but rather will teach you to find the way in a lighthearted fashion that will really set you back on your heels thinking.

By the way, I'm planning the move to Costa Rica and hope to make it a reality this year!

Thank you St Martins Press and Netgalley for an ARC in return of my honest review.

I have been listening to a number of similarity themed podcasts in recent weeks so this book complemented these perfectly. It was super easy to read yet had a nice depth and wisdom attached. Some of the concepts may be new to some readers, or they may be gentle yet powerful reminders to others.

A fabulous book to remind us all to use everything inside ourselves to live our best ever life.
This is a great gift to yourself (or a friend) to keep nearby, especially for the days when someday seems like the better alternative !

Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this great book.

A really great read packed with common sense laid out in an inspiring and motivating way, this is one I'll go back to time and again for a pick me up!

Save Yourself from Regrets

Constantly putting off the things you really want to do can lead to regrets when you realize the opportunity has passed. This is a self-help book that argues that your dreams are too important to put on the back burner. If you want happiness you must pursue the things you value.

This book gives good advice on how to figure out what is really important to you and how to work toward achieving it. In addition to giving suggestions for how to figure out what you want, the book has motivational quotes to help you think about where you are and your desires.

The book is easy read. I enjoyed the author’s style. I also found that it makes you think. Life really can be better and more fun.

I received this book from Net Galley for this review.

There are a few reasons whySomeday Is Not a Day in the Week by Sam Horn irritated me. I’m not sure which is THE reason. I started reading it on the plane to Melbourne and it’s been crazy busy since with finding work, starting school, and adjusting to things I should know but are just a little different (I stress-cried over ordering coffee and the café owner gave me a hug—really), so perhaps not reading this at the right time for me. I’m doing my “someday” that Sam talks about in the book. Which is another reason why the book irritated me: it tells a version of my life with only the happy easy parts. And therefore the book is 288 pages of barely acknowledged privilege.

That said, I may just not be the target audience for Someday Is Not a Day in the Week. Author, Sam Horn, is an executive coach and author. She spends her days traveling around, helping people see things differently and public speaking. This gave her the opportunity of having a year by the water. She pulled back on her engagements and travel to places by the water. It was her someday dream she made into a today activity. Then she mixed it with anecdotes from her clients and coaching and life to make this book.

There are some helpful snippets in Someday Is Not a Day in the Week. I loved the quotes starting each chapter. Sam was quick to acknowledge her life hacks are more descriptive than prescriptive and it’s about making it work for you, which I appreciated. I connected with her comments about people saying her sailing was brave. I get the same for moving countries and taking changes. I don’t see it as brave. It’s just life (I do need to work on appreciating people who choose not to do these things and not dismiss them as dull). My favorite element was advice buried in the section discussing how to make money doing something you love. Sam suggests chatting to stall owners at the craft fairs and markets to learn from their stories. She tells of a woman who made toffee, using a family recipe, as gifts. The recipients loved the toffee so much; she started selling as the craft fair and it grew into a business. Starting small and scaling up is great advice.

If you need a push to pursue your dreams, Someday Is Not a Day in the Week is it. For everyone else, get it via Blinkist.

This book is the Kick I need to get myself in gear. Once I read it, I felt super motivated and ready to face the challenges of procrastination. Unlike other books of similar ilk, the motivation certainly lasted longer than most; the antidotes work in much the same way a parable or children’s story works and helps you to understand and retain the message longer.
Not sure that it’s had a lasting impact, but with such an easy and clean narrative, I can easily pick it up for a refresher.

**Review will be published to blog on 25 Feb 2019 at 10:00AM EST**

I chose this book because…

My daily routine is pretty relaxed at the moment, so it’s easy for me to put things off. This clever title intrigued me and hopefully it’ll give me a kick in the butt!

Upon reading it…

(I usually wait to publish book reviews until a week before the publish date, but parts of this book are so relevant to my life right now that I couldn’t wait that long!)

There are so many self-help and productivity tips out there. We all know them. But there’s a difference between knowing and understanding. Horn guides our understanding through stories instead of just spewing facts; every chapter starts with a story, and she starts the book off with her own.

I was excited to begin the book with a mutual understanding in the power of stories. However, as I made my way through the book, I had the growing feeling that I was just reading an anthology of testimonials. The book was largely made up of quoted dialogue from conversations between Horn and clients or other people she meet at conferences, retreats, workshops, other speaking/teaching gigs, etc., and my issue with all that quoted dialogue was the lack of synthesis.

Furthermore, in an attempt to provide context for these conversations, there was a lot of name/title dropping (that didn’t mean anything to me), which came off as if it was the recognition that validated the advice (again, back to that testimonial thing), though I have faith that that was not Horn’s intention.

I believe that any real, lasting change must come from within you — recognition from yourself, not from other people. It must be understood, which can be learned through your own experience or an experience shared with you (perhaps through a story), for instance.

Yet despite the overly specific testimonials, the advice was a bit generic. There was little nuance considering there were so many words.

The conversations about prioritising yourself, associating yourself with people who lift you up, asking for what you want, and pursuing what you care about have already been done. I think a more interesting and relevant conversation would be about our obsession with self-optimisation and the phenomenon of burnout. What’s with the obsession over integrating our passions with your professions? What’s with the obsession over turning our hobbies into hustles? Even if we’re not satisfied by our job, is the answer to instead make a job out of what we love? What are the consequences of that?

This book touched on good points, but I would have liked less reaffirming testimonials and more exploration of those points. There were many opportunities in this book for punchy aha moments, but they were drowned out by testimonials. I lost focus and didn’t see a clear progression through the ten life hacks, which was confusing, because shouldn’t a method that outlines itself in ten steps be, well, straightforward? This title was so clever and so punchy, and I just wanted more of that please!

To focus on my favourite aspects of this book, I think I would have preferred a workbook or pre-made interactive journal highlighting the exercises shared in the book with brief but no less effective words about the purpose of each exercise.

The exercise about aligning true priorities and time priorities really struck a chord with me — I seriously haven’t be able to put it out of my mind! — and that alignment is something I will be actively working toward this month. Don’t know what I mean by aligning true priorities and time priorities? I guess you’ll just have to flip through a copy of Someday Is Not a Day in the Week! (haha but I’m not completely evil. I’ve been thinking about sharing my process with this exercise on the blog, so this won’t be the last you’ll hear of it!)