Homework For Life
This is a process from the book Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks. Homework for life means documenting story-worthy moments from your day-to-day life. That's it. Feels easy but, is it?
There is a small activity that I recently came across that helps in building your story-telling skill, writing skill, and also a core part of journaling skill that a lot of people miss out on. It is called Homework for life.
So, What is Homework for life?
Homework for life is a trademarked process by Matthew Dicks in which a person can begin to find and document the stories that already exist in their lives. The activity is simple.
At the end of your day, spend a few minutes thinking about “What’s the most story-worthy thing that happened today?”
Then you should make a spreadsheet/list of each of our Storyworthy moments, and over time, you’ll build up a bank of stories that you can develop and share online.
I came across this process from the book Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks. I tried this step for 30 days back in November 2021, but life got in the way, and I stopped.
This is what Matthew mentioned as why he randomly picked up the homework for life in the book:
If I had to tell a story from today — a five-minute story onstage about something that took place for this day — what would it be?
This time, I want to try this process again. I want to see how many stories I can collect.
The point isn’t just to expand our bank of stories - It also encourages us to reflect on our days in a super easy way, thus allowing us to remember snippets of our life that would otherwise pass us by in a fleet.
This concept is present almost similarly as Every day is Groundhog day in Keep Going Byy Austin Kleon. Although, in the book, it is described to get keep creating as an artist every day. The concept is similar and I find it fascinating how things change but core ideas remain the same.
We have to find things to do every day.
We can apply this homework for the life process as an exercise and as a reminder of things we love to do.
Making your life story-worthy means paying attention to what is happening in your day-to-day, no matter how small or insignificant it may seem.
I share an excel template that I am using to document the story-worthy moments of my life.Maybe you can try yourself and see the change - Link↗