{"id":148,"date":"2018-05-14T00:11:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T00:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lankina.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2025-09-14T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:01:00","slug":"that-one-thing-imperative-to-make-it-and-be-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lankina.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/14\/that-one-thing-imperative-to-make-it-and-be-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"That ONE thing imperative – to MAKE IT and be a success"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is something ever so important about energy force. How many times, think back for a second, you were elated or scared, doesn\u2019t matter, but you wished for something with that energy charge of emotion- good and bad, and it happened. Sooner or later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Remember that blog post about how I became a photographer and artist and that thing I mentioned that was of outmost importance in my very fast rise in the industry?\u00a0Read HERE<\/a> if you missed it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Well here it is. For your consumption. Hopefully assimilation, absorption and eventual use.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I sat there at now non existing starbucks on 10th st and West Ave in miami ( Cool fact, remember the Sex book by Madonna? The shot of her by Steve M. Standing stark naked hailing a cab? Yep that was West ave half a block down from where this story of mine originates). So here I am, scared of my wits, in a situation from my worst nightmares : alone in a foreign city, with no prospect, no help, no nothing but my almost teenage child and massive low self esteem. And my canon dale camera. Right there and then with a coffee and sandwich that kind baristas from Starbucks would give me for free, because I had no money to pay for it,I decided \u201c I AM the badass photographer and I get THE shot EVERY TIME.\u00a0 <\/span>There was no real premises for that decision. I knew shit nothing about industry or photography and I really was terrible at playing the game or \u201ckissing ass\u201d as I like to describe it. Yet this one second in time, that massively charged charge to the Universe\u2019s\u00a0 <\/span>ether\u00a0 <\/span>wish, If you will, in my mind, played an ultimate part of willing my shit into reality. Since then I had massive amount of shoots, despite something always going wrong ( professionals will know what I am taking about ) I did the THE shot every single time. I grew and I molded reality to become what I wanted it to be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So there you have it. A wish, an emotional charge of any kind and just simply moving your feet towards your goal no matter what.<\/p>\n

What is your story? Have you had one like it? Tell me. Let us all be inspired!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Maria
Maria Lankina artist – ONE THING YOU MUST HAVE TO MAKE IT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is something ever so important about energy force. How many times, think back for a second, you were elated or scared, doesn\u2019t matter, but you wished for something with that energy charge of emotion- good and bad, and it happened. 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