“Bad things come from bad ideas, and are often seen too late.”

“Bad things come from bad ideas, and are often seen too late.” The Saga of Hord and the People of Holm, Ch. 35

This bit of wisdom is so deceptively obvious that we may find ourselves nodding our heads and moving on, but…to return to the useful idea of making our inner-landscape mirror the outer-landscape recall that a one-degree mistake in a course-heading will result in a 92-foot mistake for every mile travelled.

In 60 miles we would be 1 mile off course.

In the 21^st century world of GPS we seldom think of courses we simply let the device “tell us what to do” as we farm out this bit of skill-development to expensive toys, but if we apply this error to air and sea passages without navigational tools to keep us on track, a missing of destination by miles can be lethal.

If we transfer this 1-degree of error to the temporal world, we will be one-minute behind schedule for every hour lived. If we have put off our goals to some Golden Day consider that 1-minute error of “I can do this later” can loosely translate to 24 lost minutes per day, almost 4 hours lost per week, over 11 hours lost in a month, and 134 and a half hours per year of lost time because of a mere one-degree error.

If our errors are greater than one degree, well, you can do the math yourself.

With the Viking concept of “bad things come from bad ideas” it is vital that we examine what we contemplate at the very start, where true courses matter utmost.

Examine all your ideas from the get-go. Is your fealty to this or that cause, this or that policy truly well-informed?

If not, perhaps we might be better served by a little study time before dedicating our emotional energy and putting the integrity of our opinions on the line.

Does your use of time reflect the values you profess?

If not, adjust that values-clock, one degree can spell the difference between “I’m always here for you” and lamentably hearing “We have drifted part.”

One wee error in choosing goals and dreams can take us waaay off course. Sometimes chance makes up for our errors.

Sometimes it doesn’t.

Give chance an assistance by leaving little to chance.

Ef slæmar hlutir koma frá slæmum hugmyndum, koma góðar hlutir frá góðum hugmyndum.

If bad things come from bad ideas, good things come from good ideas.