Derailed – At my church, we are looking at small things that make a big difference. Most of the things we are talking about have a common requirement – discipline. What makes the discipline part even harder is that we tend to get derailed. It’s like you are on a diet for a few months and you are doing great and then the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays come along and not only do you get off your diet, you get off track completely – you get derailed. Maybe the problem is the goal. Instead of having a goal of losing 20 pounds, change it to a standard of maintaining a certain weight. Then, you can’t “go off” your diet for a while, because your standard stays forever. And by keeping track of the standards you create for yourself, it might be easier to keep from backsliding and faster to get “rerailed” if you need to.