Hello, and welcome to Section four. And this section covers the transformative power of gratitude in your life, and how gratitude can improve the outcomes and relationships in your life. First, we started on what gratitude was. And then we went into how gratitude can change your perspective. And it's a cause and effect relationship. When you change your perspective, it changes your life into more abundance.

And then when you increase abundance in cultivating gratitude, you also see the outcomes in your life start to shift on more fundamental levels. And so this is sort of taking everything and bringing it together so you can see how it all works and how you can increase your success in making fundamental changes in your life with these practices. This lecture is about the power of persistent gratitude and how difficult situations are not the final say in our lives. In this section, we will cover basically how you can be persistent in your attitudes of gratitude and how attitudes of gratitude and transformation from that can make you more compassionate with other people, which is a good thing in general, but it also improve your relationships, and in improving your relationships and in being persistent, the outcomes of your life that will be transformative are inevitable. And so sometimes it's difficult to believe we're supposed to be where we are in our lives, when we know we have this great destiny.

And we know that there's something better for us. And life gets tough and it stays tough with hardships and in justices and disappointments. Sometimes it feels like things will never change or get better. And then at times we need that's the times we need to press in and practice persistent gratitude the most. And that's what really this section and this lecture are about. And because that's when the most growth, change and transformation and progress can be made ironically, it's an opportunity in a way So it's training ground circumstances allow us heartbreaks and disappointments, not to test us because we're not good enough or haven't arrived yet, but to teach persistence, and also so that we can pay that forward to someone else and help them through those situations.

And so that we have the tools that we need in order to make those permanent changes in our life that we so desire, internally and externally. As I stated earlier, this persistence in difficult times, is what creates the transformation. You can have abundance for a little while, but how do you sustain it? That's what's more important than anything. And As stated earlier, the persistence in difficult times creates the transformation to transformation creates abundance and abundance changes the outcomes of our lives. And that's where the persistence comes in.

And so rocks in a jar is a good transition into this section. But, you know, I don't believe everyone who is dealing with difficult times as well. They are because anything they did wrong, or because of any shortcomings they have, often we find ourselves exactly where we are. Because that's where we need to be in the paths of our lives. And that doesn't mean our lives are destined for gloom, Doom and disappointment, and that's it, or there is so much, you know, you know that that's all we're destined for. There's so much more planned for us.

This place, your app isn't the ultimate stop in your life. You know, there's a plan for all of us. And we're here for a reason. Every situation in our lives is a temporary port, and ships do come in, and then we sell to the next destination from port to port as we grow. In some religious communities, they call it from glory to glory to glory. And so in the past, I would have hung my head and given up on gratitude and professional advancement, but I ended up trying again anyway because at those times, I feel like I didn't have anywhere else to go.

So I would practice gratitude for that. Reason as bleak as it is, it was good though in the end, but now I'm trying to learn to express disappointment constructively and find a course of action to move, you know forward in trusting in the process, trusting in the process and your higher power isn't just trusting that those things are real, but also trusting that our actual concrete future is good, and that our greater good is always a thought in that situation, when anything happens, and that there's a reason for all that occurs. I do believe that. But somewhere along the way, many people become conditioned negatively, and overcoming it becomes something like giving up on an addiction. It is an addiction, and you could call them nigga holics. I know I've had that issue also at times, but it takes six systematic day to day correction of negative thoughts to chip away at what feels like a mountain.

And that is what persistent gratitude is for you work towards something positive instead of trying to escape something Negative and that changes the perspective and the landscape of what you're trying to do. It creates a natural flow that makes it easier. By putting gratitude and other practices into action. In the short and long term, you start to see transformation, abundance and outcomes evolve in your life into something greater all the time. The irony of this Tsu need what is great in your life already to be able to evolve into something even greater. And so as we learn persistence, circumstances can get better.

In other words, we will be persistent, persistent, persistent in working on our attitudes. And this means to pay attention to what's happening around us in our lives, in our minds and in our emotions to adjust to a changing situation, to adjust to changing variables in context, and to remain consistent and persistent in our attitudes, faith and callings in our lives. Even if our progress is in miniscule quantities. Those add up more than we know in video. Persistent It is not our final destiny to struggle for the rest of our lives. The proof is in section one.

And that points to this and the practices in section three give you strategies. And if we choose concrete practices and attitudes of gratitude each day there can be changes in our lives we can't imagine and I believe this means all areas of our lives.