212°

At 211° water is hot. At 212°, water is boiling! Boiling water creates steam, powerful steam. Steam has the power to run a locomotive. Hot water has a hard time powering a cup of coffee. It's amazing what one degree difference can do. One degree makes all the difference. Pilots have to do this calculation all the time to work out wind drift angles. In basic navigation training they are taught a useful shortcut which enables swift mental arithmetic to be used. It's called the 1 in 60 rule. If you steer 1° off course you will be 1 mile offtrack after 60 miles. So say you are flying from Los Angeles to New York City, those cities are about 3,000 miles a part. And the pilot gets off track by 1°, that plane will end up 50 miles off of it's destination. That tiny single degree is possibly the difference between landing in the Big Apple, and landing in the big blue Atlantic Ocean!
Anyways, the reason I am ranting on about this one tiny degree is this: The small decisions that we make everyday affect our lives greatly later on. Take the time to analyze your track, your effort, your attitude, and see if you are headed in the right direction. Are you headed towards your goal? We each have a our own path, and it's rarely a straight line. Just realize that one small break you take, or that uninportant thing you miss, could mean all the difference.