“Someday is not a day of the week” is a saying that has been printed on many posters. If something is schedule to be completed “someday,” that often means “never.”
“The first step in achieving your goals is to recognize that ‘someday’ is not a day of the week” was said by Ed Bliss in his audiobook, Getting Things Done (1978). American author Janet Dailey (1944-2013) is often incorrectly credited with the saying. Denise Brennan-Nelson, author of Someday Is Not a Day of the Week (2005), is also frequently (and incorrectly) credited with originating the saying.
OCLC WorldCat record
Getting things done.
Author: Edwin C Bliss
Publisher: Sunnyvale, Calif., Edwin C. Bliss & Associates, 1978.
Edition/Format: Audiobook on Cassette : Cassette recording : English
30 September 1983, The Register (Santa Ana, CA), pg. A6, col. 2 ad:
Someday is not a day of the week…
...stop in today and see…
(Leather & Lace.—ed.)
Google Books
Shorthorn Country
American Shorthorn Association
1986
Pg. 89:
Thought for the month: The first step in achieving your goals is to recognize that “someday” is not a day of the week.
Google Books
CareerTracking:
26 Success Shortcuts to the Top
By James Calano andJeff Salzman
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster
1988
Pg. 214:
“The first step in achieving your goals is to recognize that ‘someday’ is not a day of the week ”
—ED BLISS, GETTING THINGS DONE
Google Books
The Educator’s Book of Quotes
By John Blaydes
Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, Inc.
2003
Pg. 125:
Someday is not a day of the week. —Author Unknown
OCLC WorldCat record
Someday is not a day of the week
Author: Denise Brennan-Nelson; Kevin O’Malley
Publisher: Chelsea, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, ©2005.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : Primary school : English
Database: WorldCat
Summary:
When asking to go on various outings, Max always receives the answer “Someday” from adults, but with a little help from the days of the week, he discovers where “Someday” lives.
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