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Do you want to be happy? Of course! We all want to be peaceful, purposeful, and experience authentic, lasting joy. “The Sky is Green and the Grass is Blue”, offers fresh, fun, and surprising ways to live in lasting happiness. All ages will enjoy learning how to transform ANYTHING bad into a diamond you LOVE. Ready to receive a powerful, and effective mind vitamin to be happy? These pages were written for you, or it makes the perfect gift for anyone looking to turn their upside down world right side up!

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You Don’t Know, What You Don’t Know

Have you? Were you? Did you?

Grow up • in a dysfunctional family?

• Suffered a period of depression or hopelessness?

• Been betrayed by someone you trusted and loved?

• Experienced sexual abuse by a person in authority?

• Battled a fight against alcohol yourself or with a loved one?

• Questioned the existence of God?

• Asked why bad things were happening to you?

• Suffered more than you felt you could bear?

• Experienced the grief of family death?

• Lost all your financial life savings?

• Want to be happy?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then I am just like you.

That’s good news. Why?

Because you can transform all those perceived negatives into a diamond you love. I am living proof, and if I can do it, so can you!

Don’t believe the lie that it is impossible to be happy if you have a history of suffering any kind of tragedy. Don’t believe the lie that transformation is impossible. Don’t believe the lie that you can’t be happy with all these perceived imperfections in your life story.

Don’t believe the lies! Believe EVERYTHING you now define as bad in your life, CAN and WILL be transformed into something GOOD. They will become unexpected gifts for you to appreciate, and treasure, with continuous happy gratitude.

One of the most important historical events of our time was when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. How did he get there? In a rocket that was on course only 2.5% of the time! But he still made it to the moon, because the rocket and other pilots were open and willing, and accepted that they had to keep adjusting course along the way to arrive at their final destination. Th e goal and outcome of that goal was important enough for them to be humbly flexible and willing to adjust rocket settings. They didn’t wait until they were 40% off course to get back on the correct coordinates.

What got them there then?

They had the skill set, equipment, and tools to readjust their direction quickly, and so will you. That’s what you’ll learn here the skills to maintain and readjust your course to arrive at your well deserved destination of healthy happiness.

With a million self help, recovery, and motivational books on the shelves, why should you read this one?

What could possibly be different about The Sky is Green and the Grass is Blue? How will reading this particular book truly change “my” life?

I often asked myself these types of questions when I wandered through the shelves of books I’d grab to buy and devour when I first began this initial quest for these exact same answers in my own life. It is now my honor and privilege to pass on this knowledge to you. To transparently share this passion that I began years ago, has not left me disappointed right up to this very moment. In fact, the healing, hope, and happiness I feel inside has only grown bigger, brighter, and more powerful. And so have the results – or the rewards of freedom and peace within the entity called “me.” I learned how to make this happen and last with the tools I’m about to give you in the following pages.

Your happiness does not have to come from other people’s minds any longer! What others say or do has nothing to do with you. It actually has more to do with them, and how they think, act, believe, and perceive.

Genuinely enjoying your own company is possible, regardless of outside circumstances. Yes, authentic freedom is just around the corner of these pages.

Doesn’t that feel great?

I may not be academically approved like Dr. Phil, or a rich and famous Oprah, or possess that “listen to me” media power of Bill O’Reily, but most of us don’t. What I do bring to the table is the proof and evidence that anyone who seeks to live in peace, on purpose, and be happy regardless of outside circumstances, can change their life for the better.

These tools can offer you hope and genuine, lasting change. Change to be a happier and healthier person every day of your life, not just
when situations seem to be going your way. Believe that you too can be the best person you were created to be.

Perhaps this search for peace and happiness has only been the ghost of a possibility. A feeling in your gut, or an intangible dream,
something you could only grasp at but never really hold. You WILL change for the better, I promise, beginning with this very moment, with this very word you are now reading. In fact, it’s already begun…

Do you want to be genuinely happy? You can.

You will learn about tools in this book that you may never have known about. I certainly didn’t until someone told me. The goal of this book is to guide you to these resources that can give you the lasting happiness you seek. This is why The Sky is Green and the Grass is Blue is different from other books. This is a tried, tested, and proven ‘walk the talk’ guide by yours truly. I am here to tell you that achieving lasting happiness with these methods is an opportunity of transformation you will keep forever. Isn’t that what we all want in life?

To be so happy and peaceful on the inside that it doesn’t matter what the heck is going on around the outside. To be free to detach from the negative or often nasty comments people can hit you with unexpectedly. To be able to deal with the inevitable unexpected bombs that crash down in your life, no matter how hard you try to avoid them.

Would you like to repel these negatives in your life, like water that effortlessly rolls off the back of a duck? Unfairness of people, places and things in this world does not have to stop you from living your God-given dream.

This is what you will find in these pages. A stable, consistent set of tools and resources that you can depend on like the impenetrable consistency at the bottom of the ocean to get you where you want to be.

“How could this be a lasting change for me?”

Look at nature. Does the death of winter bring the birth of a new spring? Does the pruned-to-a-nub rose bush come back with more flourishing flowers the following year? Is it possible for a crawling caterpillar, once transformed in its cocoon to become a butterfly, regress back to its original state? No, these changes, which appear to be lasting death, are in fact transformations to a fresher, better life. This is what is going to happen to you.

How would you like to turn everything that you now define in yourself and your life as “upside down” and negative, and transform it into something positive and “right side up?” How great would it be to know your perceived setbacks are disguised gifts towards the horizon of your greatest comebacks?

It’s true!

We will use the tools shared in this book to make the very same pile of manure you hate, into rich fertilizer you love, and regularly utilize it to grow your garden of happiness. Discovering and transforming that “mess” of unhappiness you find so painful to accept, and realizing there is a way for you to change it all into a miracle of personal freedom and lasting happiness, is possible.

Here’s an example of trash before, and treasure after, transformational results you can expect to receive after using these new tools.

Before (you have) Transformed to… (you get) After

Anxiety Peace

Confusion Confidence

Fear Faith

Doubt Trust

Resentments Forgiveness

Selfishness Purpose

Anger Acceptance

Pride Humility

Depression Joy

Arrogance Openness

Bitterness Gratitude

Dishonesty Integrity

Lies Truth

Manipulation Detachment

Despair Hope

Hatred Love

The Sky is Green and the Grass is Blue was created for you. Why?

Because I want to give you everything I wish someone else had given me years earlier. How much more time could I have enjoyed? How much more energy could I have directed towards things of purpose and meaning? How much more peacefully could I have lived my life? What else might I have accomplished? What gifts did I never see in my life that could have enhanced my ability to appreciate my life? Yes, this transformation of turning your upside down world right side up will help you be truly happy. This is my purpose, my wish, my prayer, especially for you.

Where ever you go, there you are.

Why not take these positive transformations with you in everyday interactions with your friends, family, co-workers, and relatives. Trust that you’re able to transform anything from green sky to blue… And once you are transformed, everything around you is transformed along with you. Don’t waste another minute on needless suffering. Take courage, “be steadfast,” have hope! “The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” Confucius

You already own a diamond of happiness, and that would be – YOU!

Happiness is already in there, inside of you, screaming to shine, otherwise you wouldn’t be here right now. What you may not believe, what no one has shown you up until now, is how to chip away and remove all that ugly stuff that surrounds your personal diamond of happiness.

The upside down problem that’s causing you frustration, misery and keeping you stuck, only exists because no one showed you how to TRANSFORM the mess into a miracle. How to appreciate the very same black junk that’s been stubbornly covering up the beauty of the diamond is the very same material that made the diamond so precious in the first place! The pressure of all that unpleasant looking junk around the diamond is precisely what makes it so valuable, so beautiful, and so unique. The same is true for you.

Take comfort, join me on a journey to appreciate, remove, and replace all the black charcoal surrounding the diamond called you, so we can release your own personal dazzling sparkle and shine. Nothing in your life will go to waste.

Even in the midst of a pouring rain storm, you can make a beautiful bright rainbow. Sometimes, the greatest winners in life have lost
now and then, causing them to later rise higher, and become a true record breaking champion.

Exercise:

Write down each letter in your first name, and think of something you are grateful for about yourself right now, in this present moment; something about you, something you have, someone you have in your life. It could be any person, place, or thing.

Here is my example:

D Determination to keep a promise.

E Enthusiasm to write this book, and share these tools with you.

B Belief that anything bad can be transformed into something good.

Now, your turn;

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CONGRATULATIONS!

Your diamond is starting to sparkle with deluxe dazzle, super sensational, beyond beautiful, fine shine.

People don’t change because they see the light, people change because they feel the heat. Pain can motivate you to change for the better. If pain can lead to a good thing, anything can be transformed to bring you a happier good life.

The success of this plan, of course, requires something from you. Yes, indeed, you’ll need to bring one piece of “action” into your silent reading of this book on a regular basis. Without it, you can’t ever possibly get the happiness you seek, so listen carefully. You are required to bring an active acceptance of this simple statement. YOU DON’T KNOW, WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW.

You must firmly believe this fact, really believe this statement in the very depth and core of your heart. You will have to accept that out of all the knowledge in the world, this huge planet of data from the beginning of time until this present moment, from every human being that’s ever walked the earth, every book that was ever written, every course ever taught, every invention ever created, out of this whole enormous pool of information, you only know a very little itty bitty tiny sliver of it. You may possess merely a speck of this knowledge and truth, an eyedropper full in the mass of an ocean. That’s all you know. Th e simple truth is that you don’t know what you don’t know. Humbling, isn’t it?

Once you accept that you don’t know what you don’t know, you are open to receive.

The transformation process hinges on this, because it allows you to be open to receiving the gifts along this new journey. Every time you read a thought or a page that brings up your defense mechanism, sarcasm, or cynical inner voice, you need to be actively involved in the process by telling yourself to remove any preconceived notion in your head. Read onward, and repeat these words…”but I don’t know, what I don’t know.”

There’s enormous power in that statement, because the words allow fresh space for you to replace the void with the ability to learn, and listen. This is the only way you can possibly ever change. You must first change your thoughts before you can expect to change your behaviors.

Consider that you are not seeing things in your world as they truly are; you are seeing them as you are, through the filter of the interpretation of your personal life experiences in your own mind and emotions. My friend, you must at least consider that your thoughts have been color blind in the past, blocking you from noticing the vibrant colors of truth in the present moment. Th e sky may have looked green to you, but the true color has always been, and always will be, a beautiful shade of your favorite blue. Doesn’t the idea of having your “thinking vision” corrected feel exciting?

Imagine being your own best friend?

I mean, after all, you do spend more time with yourself than anyone else, don’t you? Why not ENJOY your own company? The very fact that you desire to be happy is a sure seal of the promise to receive it.

The only map that can lead you to that place called “happiness,” is a willingness to believe it and receive it. You want to go there, to get there, and to live there so desperately you can taste it. Remember George Bailey in the 1946 movie, It’s A Wonderful Life? He got what he asked for – relief from all his troubles, “I wish I had never been born.”

But the irony of his being able to see what life looked like without him in it was a total disaster! By the end of the movie, he realizes what he thought to be true was completely wrong, and he really did have a Wonderful Life.

Shaking in desperation, he finally begs out loud, through the heavy falling snow battering his broken heart, “Dear God, I want to live again, please Lord, let me live again.”

You are going to live again too, fully alive, in your best version possible. You are going to star in your own life’s movie with more zeal than you thought possible, imagined, or dreamed. And the academy award goes to YOU, living an authentic, happy, grateful, purposeful life with lasting love.

The following story breathes life into these thoughts. I call it The Donkey Story.

“One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone’s amazement, he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well, and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey did something amazing. He shook it off and took a step up. As the farmer’s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he shook it off and took a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was struck with amazement as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off .” Author Unknown

Life is definitely going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of your troubles can be transformed from obstacles into stepping stones. You can get out of the deepest wells solely by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up. Who doesn’t have troubles?

Who doesn’t have a skeleton or two in their life history? Who hasn’t been hurt, betrayed, or treated unfairly? Who doesn’t have a problem they pray would go away? I promise you, everyone has had something they regret having happened to them, or has done something they regret having done to someone else. We all feel pain and sorrow, just like that donkey at the bottom of the pit.

Not everyone has the tools to understand how to take the dirt of disaster thrown on them, and transform it into the stepping stones that can bring us to complete freedom.

The key to the end of the donkey story is that when the donkey released himself from the pit, he ran off , totally free. Had he never entered the pit and overcome his trouble, he would still be tied up and owned by the farmer for the rest of his life. He would have remained a slave to the farmer and never known the difference. His horrible disaster brought him the complete freedom he could never have achieved without it. This is the key: if you have a mess in your life, you have a potential miracle as well.

It only benefits you to keep your mind open at all times. Your mind is like a parachute – it only works when it’s open. Keep your mind and heart open like the parachute, and I promise you’ll travel to your new beach home on Peace Island with miles of serenity sand. Wait until you see the spectacular new view from here!

You can’t unscramble those scrambled eggs. Why waste a good worry?

There is great power in the now. Give up the hope of a better past, and start focusing your time and energy on a better present moment, right now.

We may not be able to control the direction of the wind, but we can always adjust the direction of our sails. Don’t be afraid of change; be very afraid of staying the same.

Exercise:

Imagine you are now on your new home of Serenity Island. Walking on peace beach, you discover Aladdin’s Lamp. Curious, you open the cover to find a real life Genie inside. He powerfully emerges out of the lamp growing larger than life, and asks you if you want to be happy? Of course you answer, yes! He tells you to answer the following questions before your wish can come true.

1. What are you doing when hours pass by like moments?

This is your purpose.

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2. When do you feel most at peace and when do you feel most confused?

This is your task to transform.

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3. Are you willing to let go of your confusion, replace it with your purpose, and transform yourself to find everything you seek?

This is your happiness.

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He tells you, sometimes it is harder to let go than to hold on, and leaves you in a gentle breeze of hope.

Take courage! You’re worth the effort!

You are now going to find many treasures and KNOW what you DID NOT know, to be truly happy from the inside out. Existing in a safe place where no one can steal your joy.

Congratulations!

Get ready to celebrate transforming yourself into the unrepeatable, super fabulous diamond of a person, called – YOU.

Copyright 2010 Deb Scott. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.