I have been extremely busy for the past six months mainly because I _________ a dental clinic.

As a dentist, I have always _________ owning a dental clinic. After dreaming about it for years, I _________ .

I never expected how _________ it would be. The previous owner left behind a mess that I could never have _________. It took lots of time and money to _________ things around.

A few weeks ago, the bank account for that new _________ was down to $147 and salaries about $11, 000 were due the next week. I started to _________ how difficult this was going to be.

What had _________ looked like a gold mine was turning into a money pit. It seemed my dream was going to __________ before my eyes. Looking at my banking website, I __________ over to the sidebar where four words caught my __________ and hit me over the head. “There are no shortcuts’’, It was like a wake-up call to me. There is no __________ to be gained from taking shortcuts and __________ the struggle. The struggles are the best learning experiences life can __________. They shape us into __________ people.

So whether you relate it to a professional __________ or to your family goals, remember that there really are no __________. There seem to be shortcuts at first but eventually they will leave you far off the path you want to be on, and often __________ you to return just to recover. The hard times are part of the journey and you will __________ respect for them when they are past.

Passion, like life, is about the journey, not the destination. Kimberly and I have been planning a trip to Europe for a year. This was a_________of ours.

The most exciting part of the journey started with a train ride that had some_________. We took a train from Zurich (苏黎世) to Croatia (克罗地亚), where no one_________us, though. In addition, we had a tough time_________a taxi around the station to make it to the ship._________, they waited for us there.

Once we got onto the ship we_________it was not like a large hotel with great service. It was tight quarters. The_________was very small. The shower was a spout (喷头)_________to the bathroom sink (洗涤池). You turned it on and sprayed (喷洒) yourself,_________the rest of the room.

The week-long ship ride was full of__________. There were people from different__________speaking different languages. We stopped on islands of all sizes for fun. Then there were high winds—so high that the buses couldn’t run because they might     ________. So we took an expensive taxi, and headed back to__________our flight home.

While we loved the more__________parts of the trip, our real passion was in the unexpected—the missed rides, the__________ship, the mixture of cultures, and even the__________

Sometimes people are so__________that it scares them to do something different. Yet when they do__________their comfort zone, the different experiences that they once thought were__________are what stand out. Mixing things up, trying new things, seeing something through another person’s eyes, being open to adventure—this is how you create__________.

What is it that you love to do but never feel that you get it quite right? Perhaps you don’t even try anymore because you think what you do is not ________ enough.

Discouragement seems to follow us a good part of the time, ________ whatever it is that we work so hard at, it seems that there is ________ someone else who can do it much better.

I have always enjoyed music and it is ________ to me that every musician has a ________ of their own. My father ________ several instruments and when he played with others, it was not difficult to ________ his sound in a group. Whether it was guitar or another instrument, he had his own ________ sound.

I ________ heard of a music teacher who commented to a discouraged student “ ________ else can make the sound that you make. The sound that you make may not be the same as someone else’s. But who is to say which is ________?” It is said that, “________ is in the eye of the beholder,” perhaps it could be said that “a delightful sound is in the ear of the ________.”

Every person has a different tone of voice that ________ only to them. ________ we all know people with an unforgettable laugh or a way of ________ that is unique to them. It might not be the sound of your music or your voice at all. It ________ be the way you whistle or the sound of your footsteps.

Each person has a(n) ________ on the world in some way. Someone else can do what you do, but they cannot do it ________ the way that you do it. The next time you feel ________, remember “Nobody else can make the sound that you make”.