I met young ice-hockey goalie, Kimmo Rautiainen, sometime ago when I shot his image for Leijonat Magazine. He’s sixteen and has just moved to Tampere from other side of Finland to play ice-hockey. He wants to be be top goalie in the world. He lives in family, he takes bus every morning, changes it another bus, goes to high school… afternoon he goes to his friend’s place to rest, the he goes to practice, then bus, another bus and eventually he’s back home around 8 or 9 pm. How does it sound? Focused?
There’s nothing about “I must do, I’m busy, I need to…” It’s simply “This is what I WANT to do.” What you can say but admire. 16-year-old guy knows what he wants, and lives in that way that he can do all to achieve his goal. All decisions are based on his dream. Focused.
How about us in our lives – phone is ringing, mailbox is beeping, someone is asking us to go somewhere… We dream about new hobby, we dream about more time with our family…
We dream about – WHAT?
Do we have goal?
Are we focused?
Goals, dreams and focus
I met three people last weekend. One has divorced after 30 years marriage; she felt happier than ever in ten years. Another has dreamed about first own apartment, and has just bought that. Third one thought she never could have kids and now she’s mother of beautiful baby. Meeting Kimmo and all these people reminded me again meaning of dreaming, goals and focus.
.. and at the end for those, who’s goal is to become better photographer 🙂
Lighting diagram for cover image
(1) Main light: Elinchrom Ranger S portable flash unit + light modifiers: standard reflector (26 cm), grid 8°, barn doors 35 x 40 cm
(2) Fill light: Elinchrom Ranger S portable flash unit + light modifiers: umbrella reflector (18 cm), glossy, silver-gold umbrella (105 cm)
(3) Rim light 1: Elinchrom Ranger S portable flash unit + light modifiers: umbrella reflector (18 cm), glossy, silver umbrella (105 cm)
(4) Rim light 2: Elinchrom Ranger S portable flash unit + light modifiers: umbrella reflector (18 cm), glossy, silver-gold umbrella (105 cm)