What dessert taught me about confidence 🍫

Hey there! Meet Cindy. She dreads work because when her boss asks her to clean up messy data and create organized spreadsheets in Excel, she has no idea where to begin. 

The result? Cindy gets overwhelmed and nervous about her job security. 

That ☝️ is why I’m hosting another free live Excel class on optimizing your spreadsheets with Data Cleaning and VBA Macros! Because Cindy shouldn’t feel like this (and neither should you). 

Here’s the class schedule: 

• Wednesday, March 20 at 3 PM ET 

• Thursday, March 21 at 12 PM ET 

• Friday, March 22 at 12 PM ET 

Click here to save your seat! 

If you can’t attend live, you’ll get the automatic 48-hour replay once you register! 

Never Lose Your Cell Again With VBA Macros

WiFi dropping out mid-Zoom call. Forgetting to cancel your subscription after that 30-day free trial. Losing your active cell in a large and complex Excel spreadsheet. It’s the little things that drive us nuts. 🙃

While I can’t help with those first two, I’ve got you covered for that last one. Here’s how to never lose your active cell in Excel again (with the help of VBA!): 

This tip won’t just save you tons of time—it’ll prevent you from the common mistake of entering data in the wrong place because you lost your cursor in the spreadsheet (the worst). 

💡 P.S. —I’ll be sharing more game-changing VBA tips in my upcoming Excel class! To sign up, save your seat right here.

What Brownies Taught Me About Confidence

It’s 2016 and I’m on a group skiing trip with Mike, my boyfriend of six months. We’re playing one of those “How well do you know your partner?” games when someone asks him: 

💬 “What’s Kat’s favorite dessert?” 

I have no clue what my favorite dessert is. But Mike says, without an ounce of hesitation, “Brownie a la mode.” 

I don’t even know what “brownie a la mode” is. But the sheer amount of confidence this man is exuding had me wondering, “Wait, maybe that is my favorite dessert…” 

This is where I learned the power of saying things with confidence. If it could influence something as silly as dessert preferences, imagine how it could impact the bigger areas of our lives.

So, I started practicing this verbal confidence in micro situations: 

• ➜ I requested a 15% raise—without apologizing or second-guessing myself. 

• ➜ I led a team meeting—even though I thought I wasn’t ready.

• ➜ I interviewed for a job at a big-shot company—despite not meeting every qualification.

The habit eventually became second nature. I stopped underplaying what I believed to be true—and even gained the confidence to leave the corporate world to launch Miss Excel!

So here’s my challenge to you: Take a tip from the Mikes of the world and try saying something with full, unquestionable confidence. It could be as simple as reciting your coffee order or telling someone about your job.

It seems insignificant, but those small acts of confidence can add up to some big life changes.

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Stay Excelent,

Kat