{"id":4582,"date":"2015-09-29T06:11:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T14:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=4582"},"modified":"2017-05-03T20:58:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T04:58:32","slug":"discover-your-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=4582","title":{"rendered":"Discover Your Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wpid-IMG_1843-2015-09-29-06-11.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1843-2015-09-29-06-11.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAlmost 15 years ago, I was jotting down ideas for an online moniker to use when I join a fun group called the Postcard Fairies.  The Postcard Fairies are a network of succulent folks who make and send postcards all over the world with a message that we are all connected.  My usual online handle didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to fit and this was before Facebook made the use of real names common.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wpid-IMG_1842-2015-09-29-06-11.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1842-2015-09-29-06-11.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nI had been re-reading SARK books and the Artist Way and the words that kept repeating in my journaling at the time were discover your manage, believe in your magic and make magic.  I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t referring to rabbit out of hat magic or supernatural magic.  I was referring to the magic within each of us to create &#8211; create art, create happiness, create love.<br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wpid-IMG_1844-2015-09-29-06-11.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1844-2015-09-29-06-11.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nDiscover your magic (5.5\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 9\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)<br \/>\nAt that time, in a less than fulfilling office manager job, the believing part was most inspiring to me.  Believe in Your Magic became Believe Yourself Magic and finally I wrote believemagic.  My online name was found and still remains today as the name of my creative company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 15 years ago, I was jotting down ideas for an online moniker to use when I join a fun group called the Postcard Fairies. The Postcard Fairies are a network of succulent folks who make and send postcards all over the world with a message that we are all connected. My usual online handle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}