Call out your limiting beliefs

Happy Thursday! Lately, I’ve been trying to ask questions when I want to give advice. Offering our two cents can sometimes help, but we usually lack essential context. But asking questions? That helps people come to their own conclusions—and there’s nothing like seeing someone connect to their inner wisdom. 🤩

It’s Time for a Trim ✂️

Nine out of 10 times we welcome extra space—whether it’s legroom on a plane, a free seat on a crowded bus, or distance from an ex (kidding). 🤷‍♀️

But if you’re working with Excel, lots of spaces within your text isn’t always a great thing.

They make your workbook look clumpy and manually deleting those spaces is a pain. I timed myself removing the spaces in our above example, and it took nearly two minutes. Now imagine cleaning up 1,000 cells instead of just 10! 😳

If your worksheet is making you feel spaced out, use Excel’s TRIM function to delete all spaces from text except for one space character between words.

Here’s how you’d use the TRIM function: 👩‍🏫

Beautiful—but you’re not done quite yet!

So all that’s left is to delete Column A, right?

Nope! If you do this, you’ll be left with that pesky #REF! Error. That’s because Column B is a formula that depends on Column A’s input information. 😖 Here’s how to solve this:

And voila! Our end result is looking nice and neat. Hopefully, this tip leaves you trimming with confidence. 😇

Any Excel tips you’d like to share? Hit reply or submit here! I’d love to feature you in a future newsletter. ✍️

Call Out Your Limiting Beliefs

My heart was pounding.

My thumb hovered over the “Post” button as doubts swirled. “I’m not the kind of person who posts TikToks dancing to an Excel tip. I can’t handle the spotlight.” 😥

The fears were convincing, but I’d done the inner work to blast past them. I realized I'd always enjoyed performing—but a childhood event had convinced me otherwise.

I clicked “Post” and Miss Excel was born. 🎉

Although creating Miss Excel was a dream, it meant I had to identify my limiting beliefs.

Why?

Because until we’re aware of our limiting beliefs, they’ll subtly guide our life path. 🙅‍♀️

Limiting beliefs are the stories we tell ourselves that hold us back. For example, I’d convinced myself I wasn’t meant for the spotlight.

In reality, the root of the issue was that one person told me I wasn’t a good singer back when I was a kid—and I took that to mean I could never perform!

Isolating and analyzing our limiting beliefs frees us to leap into amazing new realities. The way we do that is to drag these false accusations into our brain’s interrogation chamber, shine a light on them, and prod them with questions.

Here’s how I worked through a once debilitating limiting belief:

Now for the exciting part: your biggest goal might be one limiting belief away.

Once I recognized this, I was motivated to get to the source of the issue, challenge it, and find a solution. I still rely on this tactic any time I’m looking to level up in life. ✨

Becoming aware of our self-imposed limitations is how we shrink their power.

So, make it your mission to shed light when you can. 🔦

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Here’s your gentle reminder that you are not your emotions. 🦋

Try to see emotions as messengers that are passing through. Be curious, listen to what they have to say, and don’t judge them! One way to do this is by reframing our language. Instead of saying, “I’m anxious,” we can change it to “I’m feeling anxious.”

It’s a small shift, but this is how we learn to sympathize with our feelings (instead of repress them).

Stay Excelent,

Kat