Happiness is a word that has been on my mind a lot lately, so I knew right away when I checked out the Altered Challenge at Ch{all}enge Masters that this was the word I would use!
Near the end of last year I came to the realization that if I was to be truly honest with myself, I would have to say that I was NOT happy. I had some unexpected and surprising help with this realization and I will be forever grateful to a certain someone for that help. So, I started to make some changes, and to spend my time doing things, going places, seeing people that made ME happy! I have always been the person who puts themselves out to make someone else happy, and that is why I chose happiness as my word for 2010….this year I will take the time to make ME happy. The changes I made last year have been leading me down an adventurous, and mysterious path, and I am enjoying it, but I have to stop and remind myself at every fork in the road to take the path that will lead to my own happiness. I hope the adventure continues!
Now, here is my altered frame with my word for the year: Happiness
The quote reads: Happiness is not something you postpone for the future, it is something you design for the present. ~ Jim Rohn

While I was searching at ThinkExist for the “perfect” quote for my frame, I came across some other really great ones that struck a chord with me….
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
~ Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens
The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
~ Madame de Stael
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of true happiness.
~ George Santayana
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
~ Bertrand Russell
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
~George Sand
I had SO much fun with this frame I think I might make another one, and maybe even another after that, to adorn my walls….my own personal motivational “posters” :)