A month after having my gratitude journal, I threw it in the trash can. Writing in it every day felt like a(n) _________ addition to my already overwhelming to-do list. _________, I had been keeping a “normal” journal for years. Why add another? My friend_________ me to give it another shot. He     said that writing down a few things to be thankful for was_________ from free writing.

The_________ of a gratitude journal didn’t resonate with me, but I did_________ to write in an     ordinary notebook. Writing down thoughts and ideas was part of my daily habit. Along with journaling, reading motivational ( 励 志 的 ) material was a(n) _________ in my life. But my endless goals never seemed to be achieved. So, I’d_________   . Then I’d read a new book, set more goals and   start again.

What was I doing wrong? Recently, while organizing a cabinet (储藏柜), the _________ came to me.

I__________ the collection of journals I’d written over the years and decided to__________ them. As I read, I realized these notebooks were a road map of my__________－a full description of my journey. These daily journals were__________ that I had been making progress all along, but had been so focused on the__________that I was unable to live in the moment. I hadn’t been celebrating the little wins because I didn’t __________ them.

Looking ahead to see how far I have to go can make the finish line seem__________. But enjoying the process and looking back to see how far I’ve come makes every__________ success feel more like a victory.

The gratitude journal found its way back into my life. This simple habit that__________ me in the past finally makes sense. I’ve learned nothing is too small to be__________. I still believe I can have it all, but I’ m __________ enough now to know I can’t have it all at once.

I’d always dreamed of exploring Africa, ever since I read my first Tarzan (《人猿泰山》)comic as a child. Finally, in 2004, to celebrate my 60th birthday, I went to Tanzania to experience a safari （东非游猎）and climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. Seated next to me on the flight was Tanzania’s minister of water and wildlife development. We talked for thousands of miles, and he arranged me to visit a school. When I toured the school, I was shocked. The leaky (漏的) roofs turned the dirt floors into mud during the rainy season, and the walls couldn’t keep out the heat, cold or bugs (小昆虫). The school was in need of all material goods, but the kids possessed great human spirit.

It broke my heart that these children had to struggle to survive, so I asked the headmaster what it would cost to feed them. As little as 20 cents per child per day, he told me. Immediately I got home, I founded Kids of Kilimanjaro. Since then we’ve grown to provide hot lunches for nearly 13,000 schoolchildren every day. The free lunch program has eased a major problem the youngsters face.

I know a good education could really make a difference in these children’s lives. My parents always stressed the importance of education. I paid my own way through college in Tokyo by teaching English to students and businesspeople. After attending university I moved to San Francisco, when I was 25 years old. In 1978 I realized my American dream when I founded my own company. My success all started with a good education.

It’s amazing that something as simple as a nutritious lunch can change and enrich so many lives. Giving young people a better, healthier life can inspire them to go all the way through college and lead a movement that transforms their country.

Eight years ago, when Kyle Amber was five years old, he came face-to-face with a huge problem: His brother, Ian, ten, was diagnosed with leukemia(白血病). Their parents, Laurie and Henry, were spending much of their__________with him in hospital. Kyle often felt alone and   ____

What could a kindergartner do? Not much, it seemed._____, Kyle was determined. He looked around and saw lots of kids being______for cancer and decided he could help them by helping the hospital, which was trying to______money for bone-marrow(骨髓)transplant.

But how? Since Kyle’s grandfather was in the printing business, he______bring decorative cards for Kyle, who______with the idea of selling them_____. He made a large sum of money-$80-for the hospital. His next______was a candy sale at this school, Palmetto Elementary, and it has turned into an annual______.

Within a year Kyle’s idea turned into an official fund-raising organization called Kids That Care Cancer Fund. Today it is one of the______organizations in the country run by kids and______kids. It’s hard to estimate just______the group has collected, says Laurie, but it is more than $100,000. As the Mayor of Miami wrote to Kyle, “ Your efforts have made a remarkable______in the lives of many suffering from this disease.”

Never once has Kyle thought of_____, because the smiles of the kids are too important. “ Basically, the entire feeling that you get is very______,” he explains. Helping other kids has taught him to be less______. And there’s another thing he learns for sure: “ There is______going to be a time when you’re going to have a very hard barrier,” he says. “______you overcome that, you can do anything.”