You had better learn to be grateful．If you are grateful，you naturally_______. yourself up to receive all kinds of blessings and good things in life．You can receive almost everything you want_______．If you want recovery soon，start by feeling grateful that you are still_______．If it is more money that you want，start being grateful for whatever_______ of money you already have．

You see，showing gratitude(感恩) is the key to every_______ thing in life．It is the key to successful relationships，it is the key to successful futures and it is the key to_______ healthier and happier lives．And this is where the importance of being grateful lies．_______，it makes life better．

One of my favorite_______ is “If you learn to appreciate more of what you already have，you will find yourself having more to appreciate．” Think about that！

So maybe your wife is not very________ around the house，but she’s great at cooking your favorite________．Or，maybe your child________ milk all over your new shirt right before you walked out the door for work，but usually he makes you laugh so much and makes you________ the luckiest parent in the world．

I strongly________ you to make a promise to yourself for the next week．Decide to________ every morning and think of at least 5 things that you are________ .for．Then say them out loud． You will notice a smile on your face without even______．In 30 days you will feel completely renewed． This is the________ of being grateful！

Since finishing my studies at Harvard and Oxford, I’ve watched one friend after another land high-ranking, high-paying Wall Street jobs. As executives (高级管理人员) with banks, consulting firms, established law firms, and major corporations, many are now ____ on their way to impressive careers. By society’s ____, they seem to have it made.

On the surface, these people seem to be very lucky in life. As they left student life behind, many had a ____ drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates, and ____ out of small apartments into high buildings. They made reservations at restaurants where the cost of a bottle of wine ____ a college year’s monthly rent. They replaced their beloved old cars with expensive new sports cars.

The thing is, a number of them have ____ that despite their success, they aren’t happy. Some ____ of unfriendly coworkers and feel sad for eight-hour workweeks devoted to tasks they ____. Some do not respect the companies they work for and talk of feeling tired and ____. However, instead of devoting themselves to their work, they find themselves working to support the ____ to which they have so quickly become ____.

People often speak of trying a more satisfying path, and ____ in the end the idea of leaving their jobs to work for something they ____ or finding a position that would give them more time with their families almost always leads them to the same conclusion: it’s ____. They have loans, bills, a mortgage (抵押贷款) to ____, retirement to save for. They recognize there’s something ____ in their lives, but it’s ____ to step off the track.

In a society that tends to ____ everything in terms of dollars and cents, we learn from a young age to consider the costs of our ____ in financial terms. But what about the personal and social costs ____ in pursuing money over meaning? These are exactly the kinds of costs many of us tend to ignore — and the very ones we need to consider most.

I grew up as the “baby” of my family. I was the youngest of the three sons. My brothers were five and seven years _________ than me and dealt with most of the small routine tasks that my mum and dad needed to do around the house. I _________ most of my time riding my bike, playing basketball, walking in the woods, or reading books by the stove(火炉) in the cold winter. I spent my _________ with all the fun and none of the _________ .

By the time I entered my early teens, _________ , both of my brothers had moved out of our home. My dad _________ his back seriously and become _________. Later, we moved to a mountain top house _________ by a stove. I soon found that I did more work _________ I had ever done before. I __________ the weeds(杂草) in our garden in the spring and summer. In the fall, I cut and __________ wood up to keep us __________ in the winter. All year around I __________ heavy five-gallon containers of water from a mountain spring back to our __________ so that we could have water to drink and cook with.

At first, I __________ and wasn’t satisfied. After a while, I began to find __________ in helping my parents. I sang to myself while I piled wood up and smiled while I carried water. I__________ found myself helping my mum with dinner dishes and cleaning. I started to __________ something that I would carry with me the rest of my __________ too: when your work is done in love, it isn’t just __________ .