“Bad counsel turns out badly.”

“Bad counsel turns out badly.”-The Saga of the People of Vatnsdal, Ch. 3

Five words but rife with import.

In context, if we inform our deeds, thoughts, opinions with untrustworthy information—bad counsel--we can expect the course of our thoughts and actions to follow similar dubious paths.

What Fox News is for some, MSNBC is for others, heeding unfounded gossip, consulting horoscopes for truths, seeking advice from non-doers and the like. If our base assumptions are grounded in erroneous information we may be lost.

In physical navigation, a deviation of 1 degree from your desired bearing will take you 92 feet off course for every mile you travel.

This is a dire mistake in land-navigation, and a potentially disastrous mistake in air and sea navigation.

In our personal lives, how many decisions or actions have we taken or are willing to take that are based on bad bearings? We are not talking out and out egregious bearings by consulting your Magic 8-Ball daily and taking it seriously, but bad bearings of a mere one-degree difference that every day over the course of a lifetime take you further from being the person you wanted to be, leading the life you wanted to live.

Life is one journey you can’t backtrack.

“Bad counsel turns out badly.”

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