Q: (CNN) -- Fans of "Dancing With the Stars" know how grueling the competition can be.

Contestants practice for hours a day, and almost every season some celebs are brought low by injury. So how in the world will Valerie Harper, who just months ago announced that she had a terminal form of cancer, go for that mirror ball trophy?

Apparently with the same spirit that caused the "Rhoda" actress to offer this up for fans:

"I hope you dance! I hope you dance," Harper told CNN on Wednesday. " And that's what I'm saying to everybody, that's just my message. Dance."

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Harper announced in March that she had been diagnosed with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a condition in which cancer cells spread into the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord. But Harper told CNN that she does not have brain cancer.

"I have lung cancer," she said. "It is situated in the lining of the brain; it's not even in the brain."

Her husband, Tony Cacciotti, encouraged her to sign on with the hit ABC dance competition, she said. He runs the couple's production company and had been considering her participation for a few years.

The actress said she initially resisted the idea.

"I said, 'Give me one good reason,' " Harper recalled. "He said, 'You have cancer! Get up there, and show people that you can dance and do -- and the doctors said it's fine to exercise. Encourage people to move, to exercise, to do all the things that will be good for them, and mainly not to sit in the house and glower and worry and feel sorry for yourself because you have this disease and anything else.'"

1. Valerie Harper
2. Dancing With the Stars
3. leptomeningeal carcinomatosis
4. mirror ball trophy
5. No
6. lung cancer,
7. Tony Cacciotti
8. No
9. ABC
10. He runs the couple's production company
11. Rhoda
12. No
13. CNN
14. Wednesday.
15. just months ago
16. March
17. Yes
18. No
19. hours a day
20. Yes

Numbered questions:
1. Who is competing on a show?
2. On which show?
3. What disease does Harper have?
4. What object could she win?
5. Does she have brain cancer?
6. What kind then?
7. Who is she married to?
8. Did he discourage her?
9. What network is the show on?
10. What is his occupation?
11. What show was she known for?
12. Is it an easy contest?
13. Who interviewed her?
14. When?
15. When did she announce she had cancer?
16. What month?
17. Did the doctors clear her to participate?
18. Was she excited to do it at first?
19. How long to participants practice?
20. Are people injured?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. I was working with a client who was completely burned out on her career and life and then ready for a career change. As we were talking, she said, "I just wish I had meaningful work. I don't feel like I am making a difference. I am just wasting my life." This is the theme I hear most often from clients who have been in the workforce awhile.All of us want to feel like we are making a difference. We want to believe our work means something. The problem comes in defining "meaningful work". What is it? That answer is different for everyone. For some meaningful work might be helping others organize their office. For others it may mean making a million dollars.

What really matters is how you see it. What is meaningful work to you? Take out a piece of paper and answer these questions. How do you define meaningful work? When do you feel like you are really making a difference? What work have you done so far that feels the most meaningful? Write down whatever comes to mind.

What you want to do is meaningful. It is very easy to start judging yourself as being selfish. Stop! Allow yourself to be honest. The fact is when Picasso painted; he was doing it because he liked to paint. He was not thinking, "Oh, I hope this brings joy to others' lives." He painted because he wanted to. When Beethoven composed, he did it because he loved music. Even scientists searching for a cure for cancer are immersed in their work because it fascinates them.

Don't look down on your work. It is easy to _ the importance of work that feels meaningful. I remember Tony Robbins told a story of talking with the owner of a major company. The man said to Tony, "I wish I could do what you do because it makes such adifference in people's lives". Tony said, "You have got to be kidding! Look at what adifference you make. You provide work, health insurance and security for thousands ofpeople!" Don't underestimate the value you provide.

Take a look at what you have written about meaningful work. Do you see any themes? How do you wish to contribute to this world? Whatever you choose, remember that the greatest gift you can give is to find work that makes you feel fulfilled and delighted. Respect your preference because giving your gifts to the world, whatever they look like, is the most meaningful action you can ever take. 1. Can you easily define meaningful work?
2. Is the answer the same for everyone?
3. Who was this person working with?
4. What did the client say?
5. Did they hear that often?
6. What do all people want to feel like?
numbered_answers: 1. No
2. No
3. a client
4. "I just wish I had meaningful work. I don't feel like I am making a difference. I am just wasting my life."
5. Yes
6. like we are making a difference

CHAPTER XIV.

MR. LAGUNE'S POINT OF VIEW.

For three days the Laboratory at South Kensington saw nothing of Lagune, and then he came back more invincibly voluble than ever. Everyone had expected him to return apostate, but he brought back an invigorated faith, a propaganda unashamed. From some source he had derived strength and conviction afresh. Even the rhetorical Smithers availed nothing. There was a joined battle over the insufficient tea-cups, and the elderly young assistant demonstrator hovered on the verge of the discussion, rejoicing, it is supposed, over the entanglements of Smithers. For at the outset Smithers displayed an overweening confidence and civility, and at the end his ears were red and his finer manners lost to him.

Lewisham, it was remarked by Miss Heydinger, made but a poor figure in this discussion. Once or twice he seemed about to address Lagune, and thought better of it with the words upon his lips.

Lagune's treatment of the exposure was light and vigorous. "The man Chaffery," he said, "has made a clean breast of it. His point of view--"

"Facts are facts," said Smithers.

"A fact is a synthesis of impressions," said Lagune; "but that you will learn when you are older. The thing is that we were at cross purposes. I told Chaffery you were beginners. He treated you as beginners--arranged a demonstration."

"It _was_ a demonstration," said Smithers.

"Precisely. If it had not been for your interruptions ..."

"Ah!"

"He forged elementary effects ..."

"You can't but admit that." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. where is the laboratory?
2. how long was Lagune gone?
3. was he expected back in good spirits?
4. how did he return?
5. what was fresh?
6. strength from?
7. what was wrong with the teacups
8. who commented about Lweisham?
9. did she think he came out of things well?
10. did he say anything?
11. did he look like he might?
12. but what happened?
13. who made a clean breast of it?
14. Smithers thinks facts are?
15. Lagune thinks the same?
16. what does he say?
17. was there a misunderstanding?
18. who forged something?
19. what did he forge?
Answer:
1. South Kensington
2. three days
3. unknown
4. with an invigorated faith, a propaganda unashamed.
5. conviction
6. some source
7. they were insufficient
8. Miss Heydinger
9. unknown
10. no
11. yes
12. he thought better of it
13. The man Chaffery,
14. facts
15. no
16. A fact is a synthesis of impressions
17. yes
18. Chaffery
19. elementary effects