Buildings have to be built

"A goal too long to remember takes too long to solve. Set short goals. "

-- doug smith 

I was having a catch up phone call with a friend this morning as I was driving to my first pick up for the day.

On my way I drove past the new North American headquarters for LG which is being built.

It is a massive undertaking.

The all glass building stretches for what seems forever along the New York skyline.

Over the 2 1/2 years that I ave been driving this route, I have watched this complex take shape.

During the first year,it was just this tremendous barren piece of property with these huge machines pounding away at the earth on a daily basis breaking up the rock that we know as the PAlisades here in Northern New Jersey.

Now as the facade of this structure is nearing completion,I can hardly remember when it wasn't there.

In short time, the construction workers will be gone, and people will be showing up to there gleaming new offices.

In a few years, it will be just another part of the landscape known here as the Trillion Dollar Mile.

So what's my point?

This building just didn't happen.

It had to be built.

Built from the ground up.

One piece of steal at a time.

And before any building could start, the ground had to be prepared.

Months and months, actually a couple of years of preparation.

Before that, there was the planning.

And before that, somebody had to have a vision of what could be.

Buildings have to be built,from the ground up.

They just don't happen.

Much like everything else in life.

And it always starts with a vision.