As a young man, Albert was a skilled artist, a potter with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son ___________ a severe stomachache. Thinking it was only some _____________ intestinal (肠的) disorder, neither Albert nor his wife took the condition very ___________ . But the boy died suddenly that night.

Knowing the death could have been ___________ if he had only realized the seriousness of the situation, he always felt he was ___________ . To make matters worse, his wife left him a short time later, leaving him alone with his six-year-old younger son. The hurt and pain of the two ___________ were more than Albert could stand, and he ___________ alcohol for help. ___________ Albert became an alcoholic.

As the alcoholism ___________ , Albert began to lose everything he ____________ ---his land, house, etc. Finally Albert died alone in a small ____________.

Hearing of Albert's death, I thought, "What a totally ____________ life! What a complete failure!"

As time went by, I began to ____________ my earlier rough judgement. I knew Albert’s now adult son, Ernie. He is one of the kindest, most caring, most loving men I have ever known. I saw the love between Ernie and his children, thinking that ____________ and caring had to come from ____________ .

I hadn’t heard Ernie talked much about his father. One day, I ____________ my courage to ask him what on earth his father had done so that he became such a special person. Ernie said ____________ , "As a child ____________ I left home at 18, Albert came into my room every night, gave me a kiss and said, 'love you, son.'"

Tears came to my eyes as I realized ____________ a fool I had been to judge Albert as a failure. He had not left any ____________ possessions behind. But he had been a kind loving father, and left behind his best love.

Do you know how discipline can help you achieve your goals? Do you know that discipline is important to _______? What is the power of discipline? How to become disciplined?

You might think that many people are not self-disciplined, _______ I’m going to prove to you that people in general are disciplined, but _______, in non-beneficial ways. There are many people who smoke daily _______ the fact that it is harmful and _______ and it could kill them. Such people are disciplined at _______ cigarettes and smoking. There are people who are disciplined at drinking lots of alcohol daily. Such people are disciplined at consuming alcohol. Do you _______ where I am going with this?

One of my friends who has a _______ for running spends half an hour every single morning running. Whether it is snowing or raining, she has to run. This is the kind of _______ discipline that you are supposed to ________ and create in your life.

Do you know someone who bought a book, but didn’t finish ________ it for some reason? Do you know someone who decided to improve his ________ and start eating more vegetables and fruit, but after two weeks, he ________?

These are all examples of ________ of discipline. If you are not disciplined，then you will have a hard time to get your ________. As I mentioned in my book ＂The ultimate guide to achieving your goals＂ that you could know what you want, ________ and take action, but if you are not self-disciplined, you will ________ give up.

With discipline, you can start getting up early in the morning, exercise, and ________ yourself of the non-beneficial habits such as smoking and eating non-healthy food. With discipline, you can change negative habits to positive habits. With discipline, you can join the gym and start working on having a ________ body. Do you see what the ________ of discipline can do?

Always remember what Jim Rohn said, ＂One discipline always leads to another discipline.＂

One day, I treated my professor to lunch at a restaurant. ''Excuse me, '' he_________to the waiter, who arrived at our table right away, ''I have_________cottage cheese, but this is mushroom, ''he continued. The waiter said_______,''I'm sorry, sir. I didn't mean it. I_______took the order for mushroom. '' I said angrily, ''Then_______it immediately. '' Feeling embarrassed, I was_______to say ''do you know who he is'',_______my professor was quicker. He said, ''It's all right. Just don't charge me for both dishes, ''and laughed. ''No, sir. Sorry, sir. Thank you, sir, '' ''the waiter said and the_______and gratitude(感激)were written all over his face.

''Why did you do that'' I asked, totally_______by my professor's unexpected response. ''It is his________to change your dish, you know.

''Have you seen how crowded the restaurant is? It's a________evening,Vernon, ''my professor said. ''Changing my order would mean more________for him and the cook, maybe the waiter is________. He would probably get a warning from the manager for this________. This mushroom isn't bad. Why bother to get him________.''

My professor insisted on(坚持)paying for it when the bill arrived. He________left the waiter a large tip. When we walked out, he smiled at the waiter who________so low that I thought he'd break his back.

Here was my professor, Mr. Smith, who always feels________for low-status people and treats them like friends. The true measure of a man is how he________someone who can do him absolutely no good. I'll________my professor's example and try my best to do the same.