Investing

This is not going to be the article that you think it is. For me, investing is investing fully in an idea or a form of yourself that you had been ignoring for a while.

Let me explain.

I have been for a long time seeing myself as a high-powered corporate executive, or as a public health administrator, but I would say the idea that I had most invested in was being a dietitian or personal trainer, so I could help others that suffered through the same experiences I had.

If I am being honest, all of those ideas of myself were before I had a full mindset switch when I went through eating disorder therapy, and "health and wellness" took on a completely different meaning for me. Now all I ever want to do is create artwork.

This is a very shortened version of that story, but the idea of investing for me has come full circle -- I used to think I was investing in my health, when really I was letting my eating disorder rule my life. Investing in recovery (and by investing I mean letting nothing come before the effort that I put in that direction, and whole-heartedly believing that is what I want and what I am about) looks very different than what it had looked like for me.

Every day investing for me looks like strategizing the next steps to make it to my dream, and planning out how I will use my time to get there. Investing means spending the money that I can on increasing my artistic capabilities, and then learning how to sell that to others who also resonate with environmentalism and nature-based artwork. I can say that after 10 years of trying to figure it out, and another year of introspection and therapy, I am invested fully in myself and my creative output that I want to share with the world -- monetarily, mentally, and time-wise as well. What are you invested in?

Here is the upcoming event schedule for my artwork market events!

August 26th:?OC Dreamer’s Market?at The Camp in Costa Mesa, 4 pm – 8 pm

September 2nd:?San Clemente Art Faire?at the San Clemente Library, 10 am – 4 pm

September 3rd & 4th: Surf City Artisan Fair in Huntington Beach 10 am - 6 pm

September 7th:?Riverside Art Walk?on Main Street in Riverside, CA, 5 pm – 9 pm

September 9th: RC Palmer & Co?Arts and Crafts Show?at 31141 Alta Drive Coto de Caza, CA?92679

September 23rd:?Art in the Park?at Newport Beach Civic Center Library, 10 am – 4 pm

October 5th:?Riverside Art Walk?on Main Street in Riverside, CA, 5 pm – 9 pm

October 7th:?San Clemente Art Faire?at the San Clemente Library, 10 am – 4 pm

October 8th: Surf City Artisan Fair in Huntington Beach 10 am - 6 pm

October 21st:?Tustin Arts and Crafts Crawl?in Old Town Tustin, 11 am – 5 pm

October 28th & 29th: Surf City Artisan Fair in Huntington Beach 10 am - 6 pm

October 30th - November 3rd: UCI Vendor Fair (on campus) 9 am - 5 pm