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Hi guys and welcome back to The Creative Goddess. I’m Nicole Salinger, creative goddess, chief self - excavator and sparkler of inner magic. You can listen to it here, or read this blog post!

I believe everyone has their own breed of magic inside of themselves. In 2021, what will yours be? How do you excavate it? How do you open yourself up, through the mind, body and soul to receiving it? Is it something that you can develop and train? Or is it something already inside of you, just waiting to come out?

For the first time in 100 years, Covid has made us stop, sit and reflect upon our lives, and in ourselves. It’s made us take stock of what is important to us, and made us stop, look and listen to what our souls are telling us, or at least trying to tell us. You might be someone who is starting life on a clean slate, terrified about taking your first steps into the unknown. You might be someone who is stuck in the humdrum of your life, feeling like groundhog day, just itching to do something you love but not knowing what that something is. Or...you might be terrified of getting out of your comfort zone..and trying a new career, afraid of what others will think of you.

And what I’ve discovered is...the common thread is what everyone on this planet wants.. to find their inner magic, that very thing that makes them unique, that gives them a life purpose. And this is because a life purpose, financial or not, keeps us in a healthy mindset. And after years of deep - seeded conversations with people from all walks of life, I’ve realised that having a purpose is the thing that makes us feel full inside. It makes us feel ike we are contributing to the good of the planet. That we matter. It could be as a volunteer position you take on board, it could be a hobby you’ve never tried before, or it can be taking an online course in art, just to broaden your horizons. It doesnt matter what it is. What matters is that you are willing to put yourself on the line and take some sort of ACTION, especially when we are facing life in a pandemic.

Sitting and being indecisive about your next steps is not enough. If we dont do anything about feeling stuck, we start to feel glued to the ground. We start to become immobile and unmotivated. Not knowing how to bounce back with sparkle and vitality!

Throughout my years as both a creative and a wellness advocate, I believe that the 3 major elements to finding your inner magic lies within exercising your body, mind and soul. In that order. This takes action. It takes effort and work. It takes an enormous amount of guts and courage to start glowing again. It might sound ‘too hard’ or ‘too scary’, but it’s the truth. I’ve done it myself. I redesigned my whole inner self first to redesign my life. It took more than creativity alone to find my inner magic again. It took a whole lot of inner reconstructive WORK. And most importantly, to add colour and sparkle back into my life, I had to let go of everything that did not serve my essence anymore, and begin my life over again.

What do YOU need to let go of to leave room for your inner magic to flow? Is it a toxic situation? A negative imprint notions from your previous life chapter? I promise you, that in redesigning your, body, mind and soul, it leaves space for the real magic to come through, back into your life. There is magic in the air, and its happening all around us, all the time. We just have to wake up and let it in.

I want to give you an example of one of my life chapters, and how my personal refurbishment began. I found it in the most unlikely of places.

My local gym.

At the time, I was professionally burnt out,