There’re many life lessons that are presented to us every day. If we take the time to learn from them, they can chart a positive course for us. Here are three of the lessons I     1    (learn) so far in my life.

Live in the present. Focusing too much on the harm     2     (do) to us in the past, or trying to plan for too many     3     (possibility) in the future, can cause us to miss out on the present. Missing what is going on right in front of us can prevent us from the happiness or     4     (satisfy) the present can offer us.

Overcome any obstacles (障碍) in the way. When facing obstacles, we have to decide whether we let them stop us completely     5     we create a new course. Obstacles can easily become new opportunities. We just have to make small adjustments, and sometimes     6     (slight) change our goals.

Get up when we fail. Thomas Edison once said, “Many of life’s failures are people who don’t realize how close they were     7     success when they gave up.” Sometimes it’s the act of getting up when we fall that     8     (help) us cross the finish line. It can be rethinking a piece of the puzzle or simply     9     (continue) on when the end feels so far away. Pushing through it to the end might be     10     makes a difference.