Freedom Tower Foundation
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| New York City's One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower) Under Construction, Circa 2013. |
In fact, laying a solid foundation is often the most time-consuming portion of the entire construction process.
For example, approximately four (4) of the eight (8) years that workers spent building New York City's One World Trade Center—also knows as the Freedom Tower—were focused on its massive foundation. The superstructure itself—all 104 floors of it—was completed relatively quickly by comparison. In fact, once the foundation was finished, builders were able to complete new floors as quickly as once per week!
Few real world illustrations exemplify the importance of a foundation more cogently than the Freedom Tower's 4-year-to-1-week ratio of foundation building versus story construction. It's peripherally akin to a iceberg metaphor—where 90% or more of a given mass is completely hidden from the surface site of ships and their mariners.
Just as a sailor should never be fooled by an iceberg's seemingly small size, don't ever doubt the importance of proper foundation construction just because most of it lies underground!
Suffice it to say, it is absolutely essential that builders get their foundations right. For if you foundation fails, everything else you build on top of it will ultimately fail as well.
The same is true for your life.
A strong foundation is worth every effort you can possibly invest, for it will undergird and support (or not) your entire human existence and largely determine the level of Existential Growth you eventually attain.
- As you reflect on your life to-date, how strong is YOUR foundation in terms of your character, integrity, goals, vision, habits, etc. If you were to metaphysically manifest your life's foundation in the form of a skyscraper's foundation, what would it look like? Is your foundation deep and strong, or are there gaps, missing materials, or other faulty construction? Would your superstructure be in danger of mishaps, or even collapse? If so, do YOU need to make minor repairs, a major renovation, or even a complete removal and restructuring? What kind of changes might you need to make to your thoughts, speech, actions, attitudes, or beliefs to ensure that your foundation is deep, strong, and otherwise prepared to support the superstructure of your best life?
—Dr. JJ
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