Sandy Nelson
Sandy Nelson is an artist, creativity and life purpose coach, speaker and inspirational writer. She maintains a coaching practice in the Minneapolis area and around the world, and leads Creativity workshops and Self Empowerment retreats. Her book Ask Power Questions: A Guide to Get What You Want in Business, Life, and Friendship, is based on her practical approach to getting the results you want
She’s plied her talents from fiber to paint, gaining degrees in Apparel Design, Studio Arts and Arts in Education. Her course Becoming Resilient is the culmination of more than 20 years experience and can be found at DailyOm and she’s been interviewed on Blog talk radio.
Sandy’s a certified Creativity Coach who understands the meaning and purpose of creativity, and gets what makes the creative person tick. There’s a natural rhythm to every artist’s blocks or surges, and she recognizes each step while supporting the individual’s creative process.
With an appetite for tasting all forms of the arts, Sandy Nelson finds inspiring creativity in other people to be her greatest reward.
Connect With Sandy
Posts by Sandy Nelson:
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Podcast: Unleash Your Creativity!
August 27th, 2013 -
Two Important Steps To Complete A Creative Work
August 9th, 2013 -
Pleas From Crazy Town
August 2nd, 2013 -
Three Actions Of Highly Productive Creators
June 21st, 2013 -
Three Rules To Making Great Art
June 16th, 2013 -
What No App For This?
May 22nd, 2013 -
Simple Practices That Lead To Success
April 25th, 2013 -
Gathering Creative Nuggets
April 8th, 2013 -
How To Get Your Creativity Unstuck
March 28th, 2013 -
Project Planning Meltdown?
February 13th, 2013 -
Creative Power Tools
February 8th, 2013 -
Already Blew Your New Year Resolutions?
January 29th, 2013 -
You’re So Wonderful!
January 15th, 2013 -
Doing the Work of Creating
November 29th, 2012 -
Can Politics Affect Creativity?
November 14th, 2012
Listen Here: Sandy Nelson is a JenningsWire blogger, artist and certified Creativity Coach who will discuss how to unleash your creative potential with her 5 Easy Tips to Use Your Creativity Every Day. Unleash [...]
Every creative individual has a process that helps them gain perspective on their work; and a specific audience they work to please. Quilters use binoculars backwards to see their large masterpiece at a distance, all [...]
How do you handle your emotions, when your schedule piles up all the stuff you have to do? Can you remain cool, clear headed and focused on each task? If you find yourself, anxious, stressed or working with a headache, [...]
We can all have those days when we just can’t get things done. There may be too many distractions or we’re just too darn distractible. Either way you can use these three actions to work smarter and be most productive. Get [...]
Play. Play more. Play harder I’m not kidding. Play is perhaps the most important thing you can do in order to create. I will go so far to say that it may be more important than taking lessons or earning degree in any [...]
Creators need stuff in order to make their magical ideas come to life, but managing all that material can be overwhelming, and your IPad won’t help. The way you keep all the things that inspire your ideas, is as important [...]
Do you have a simple set of guidelines that keep you focused on your creative goals? If you are someone who creates you must have the skill set to be an independent worker. Someone who is a self-starter and can design, [...]
As you go about your day, do you think about what you need to create your next masterpiece? Many artists do. When do you find inspiration throughout your daily tasks? Some creative folks sit down in the wee hours of [...]
When you have trouble feeling creative it may mean you’re stuck in the rut of prejudging your work. What is creativity anyway? For each of us there is a definition of what being creative means. Every one can define [...]
How much planning do you need to do to complete your creative project? You might say a lot or very little. One of my jobs as a coach is to help my clients learn to ask the right questions. The correct answer is to plan [...]
I just got an email from a vender selling fantastic new tools. The kind I really like, handheld and powerful. I really got excited and wanted to hit the buy now button. Without thinking much about exactly which project [...]
It’s that time of year when the reality of great intentions to shift our life into the fantastic lane is about to crash. Welcome to the world of your actuality. It’s really a good place to be about now because it [...]
Ever have those days when you feel glum or weeks when you feel unappreciated? I worked very hard getting ready for a nice family visit this past holiday. In addition to reworking my web site, reviewing last year’s [...]
A couple of months back, I spent a week painting and puppy sitting. It was a planned event during which I decided to keep in touch with my followers through the social networks. I created art, learned some important [...]
I woke up this morning thinking about starting my paintings, still stuck in my head and ready for moisture and brushing. Then I turned on the news and heard all the same crap about the presidential and other upcoming [...]