{"id":7749,"date":"2013-10-23T22:43:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T05:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=7749"},"modified":"2013-10-24T07:46:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T14:46:08","slug":"an-hour-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2013\/10\/23\/an-hour-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"An Hour-a-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1\/24th of your day, just small, but a significant beginning.<\/h6>\n

One of the challenges in our active, interest-filled lives is how to find time for the new pursuit.<\/p>\n

That was my problem when the painting spirit zapped me. It was so strong I wanted to stop everything and do nothing else. But there was no time. My days were so full they overflowed into the evenings, and my weekdays were so full they overflowed into weekends.<\/p>\n

Most of it I wanted to do, and enjoyed doing; but even if not, they were things I had to do<\/em>. It’s all part of being responsible and dependable and following through with previous commitments.<\/p>\n

But what to do with the new interest, the new idea, the worthwhile attraction? When will that happen?<\/p>\n

It was after a season of despairing about ever really getting going on painting that the gift of the hour-a-day presented itself.<\/p>\n

It came quite whimsically really, at Christmas-time when a couple of my then still young children wrapped up some paints and brushes for me as gifts. To them it was merely solution for what to get Dad for Christmas, but for me it was a beautiful thing. \u201cThey want me to paint,” I thought. The next day, having holiday time off, I found an abandoned card table, sat down, and painted.<\/p>\n

It was very informal. I was playing, really, messing around with the paints . . . just for an hour.<\/p>\n

The next day I did the same thing. And the next. Every day during that period I revisited the card table and the paints at the same time, after dinner. It was all just play, nothing at all serious, but I was painting!<\/p>\n

By the time Christmas break was over I had the habit, or the beginnings of one. I found that I could<\/em> do it. Even in my over-full schedule, I could find the one hour and reserve it. I could give myself the permission for that much time out, and I could do it every day!<\/p>\n

I still didn’t know where all this was going, but that’s how it started. It’s possibly how anything starts, or can, even in a busy life.<\/p>\n

Try it.\u00a0Put the seed in the ground. \u00a0Water it every day. \u00a0One hour.<\/p>\n

That seed can’t help but grow.<\/p>\n

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\nNext: the importance of the place.<\/p>\n

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One hour a day: It may be the gift you already have to get you going on the gift you want to develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7749"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7983,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions\/7983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}