How to break the cycle of anxiety 🔁

Hey there! After receiving hundreds of requests, I’ve decided to host another free live Excel class! This time, we’ll cover how to optimize your spreadsheets with Data Analysis and Data Cleaning. 🧹 

This class is the difference between “The boss is confused by your spreadsheet” and “The boss loves your spreadsheet–and wants to give you a promotion.” Want in? There are three class options available: 

• Wednesday, October 9th at 3pm ET 

• Thursday, October 10th at 12pm ET 

• Friday, October 11th at 12pm ET 

Register today!* 

^{*If none of these dates work for you, you can register for any date to get the replay!} 

Bucket Your Data (and Get Buckets of Praise) 🪣

Imagine your boss asks you to bucket this 👇 data by sales threshold. Can you do it efficiently? Or will you end up typing everything manually? 

Being able to automatically categorize or bucket data is one of those Excel skills you can’t afford to miss. Back in my consulting days, my boss constantly relied on me to do just this! 

Here’s the go-to formula that saved me tons of time and got me buckets of praise (pun intended 🙃). 

There you have it. Happy Exceling! 💫

P.S. Is this formula not working for you? It might be because you have a different version of Excel. Check out my video with an alternative formula that might work instead!

Let’s Completely Change the Trajectory of Your Career

How? By joining my free live Excel class! Once you learn how to accurately organize and analyze data in seconds, your professional life will change in the best way.

Not only will you save hours of your time, but your boss will know they can rely on you. Translation? That puts you front and center for that big raise, promotion, or even dream career. 🤩 

I’ve had over 300,000 people come to my previous classes and I’m so pumped for this one. Save your spot today!

Breaking the Cycle of Anxiety 🔁

Presenting to an audience, sharing an honest opinion with a coworker, attending networking events—these were all things I used to avoid because they triggered my anxiety. 

But when I started Miss Excel in 2020, I had no choice but to confront these situations head-on (building a business has a funny way of pushing you out of your comfort zone). 

Why? Because avoiding these scenarios doesn’t make them disappear. On the contrary…tackling them was key to growing Miss Excel: 

• To grow my audience ➜ I had to get comfortable presenting. 

• To lead a team ➜ I had to be honest with those around me.

• To build connections ➜ I had to start pulling up to networking events. 

It was time to finally break the cycle of anxiety: 

This cycle keeps us trapped—because we never actually get rid of our anxiety by avoiding stressful situations. Instead? It just builds up over time. 

To stop the fear from growing, I had to start doing scary things. It wasn’t easy, given I’d spent years avoiding it all! But knowing my dream business was on the other side of that fear motivated me to Just. Get. Through. It. And today? I don’t have anxiety about any of these things. 

Whether you’re sidestepping learning Excel or asking for a raise, remember: Fear grows through avoidance. Squash that fear before it gets too big—so you can become the person you want to be now and not “someday.” 💭

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Thanks for being here! Before we part ways, check out this Reddit post. It asks, “What would you teach yourself if you went back to the first time you had to use Excel for work?” 

The highest-ranked answer was this: 👇

Do you agree? What’s something you wish you knew before you started learning Excel? Hit reply and let’s hear it.

Stay Exceling,

Kat

P.S. See you at my live free Excel class! In just one hour, you’ll get tons of tips on how to optimize your spreadsheets (and save tons of time) with Data Cleaning and Analysis. Trust me, you won’t want to miss this.