One Hour Everyday

25 08 2009

Wilfred P. Cohen, devoting 40 years to become one of the apparel factory owners of the most prominent in the world. But there was something else she wanted, something that had not been able to do in business days which is always busy.
“I want to paint, I’ve never learned to paint, I do not have any reason to feel confident that I will produce paintings worth my effort. Nevertheless, I finally decided to give one hour a day to paint, no matter what I have to sacrifice to find the time that hour. ”

Which must be sacrificed by Wilfred Cohen is sleep time. Only one way that can convince himself that he would get an hour a day without interruption was up before five o’clock in the morning and worked until breakfast time arrived. “This is not hard” he said. “Once I decided to paint at that hour I could not sleep anymore. Desire to do that woke me every morning.”

He changed his attic into a studio, and for years he never missed a chance to work that morning. The payoff is amazing. Canvas painting hung in dozens of exhibitions. Several times he made a single exhibition. Several hundred paintings sold at high prices. And all of his income from one hour a day career was donated to fund student scholarships for talented art. “No one whatever I do,” Cohen said, “What gives me half of satisfaction and pleasure that I find in one hour a day activity alone.”