You can learn a lot from a cathedral in Barcelona

On a trip to Barcelona last year, we visited La Sagrada Familiá, a cathedral 127 years in the making. Work on the cathedral began in 1882 and continues to this day. I saw a connection in this for those who are looking to ramp up, change, or otherwise begin a career and are probably wondering – when is it ever going to happen? Consider that if it takes 127 years and counting to build one cathedral, the 6, 8, 12 or even more months it may take to create or refashion your career is a mere drop in the time bucket. But, hey, building something spectacular and meant to last takes time. There’s just no getting around it.

This is difficult for those who are supremely cognizant of time and see every minute of not doing something we love or fulfilling our needs as just wasting time even while busy doing the very things you need in order to move in exactly that direction. If you were building a house, you wouldn’t chide yourself for taking time to prepare the land, pour the foundation, construct the walls, and so on. If you didn’t do anything of these things you wouldn’t have a house.

These, then, are the days in which you are laying the foundation for your La Sagrada Familiá.