Google Sheets isn't Excel...

But it's more powerful than you think.

8 things Google Sheets can do, you'll wish you knew yesterday. 📊

Here are 10 Things you didn't know your Mac could do (until now) 💻

Hot Corners:

Launch various actions within your computer simply by moving your mouse to one corner of the screen or another.

• System Preferences
• Mission Control
• Hot Corners
• Select the action to launch

Specific Screenshots:

SHIFT+CMD+3 will capture your entire screen.

Did you know you can also narrow your capture to a specific portion?

It's easy, & now that I know it exists, I use it every day.

A simple SHIFT+CMD+4 and you're on your way.

Digital Signatures:

Have a PDF you need to sign?

Let's skip all the printing, physical signing, scanning, etc.

Using the "preview" app you can easily create a digital signature.

All you need is a pen, a white piece of paper, & your Mac's

File Stacks:

I'm a bit OCD when it comes to my desktop.

I like to keep things very organized and can't stand to have a bunch of different files scattered across the screen.

• Right Click
• Use Stacks
• Files are now "stacked" by type

Click a group to see the files within.

It's time to run your inbox––instead of it running you.

12 powerful Gmail tips every user should know: 📬

Undo Send:

Don't tell me you haven't done it.

You clicked "reply all" on a message including your boss when you meant to only reply to your friend.

Save yourself!

With Undo Send, Gmail allows you to recall a message sent in error for up to 30 seconds after you click send.

Tie emails to Tasks:

Look, we're all busy.

When your inbox is filling up faster than you can handle, it's easy to forget to reply, miss an assignment, or just plain feel overwhelmed.

Connecting emails to tasks can help.

Get reminders, add details, subtasks, and more.

Schedule Send:

With schedule send, you can draft an email at a time that works for you.

Then schedule it to be sent at a time that fits your employees' and customers' day.

In the world of remote work, this is critical.

It's a win-win.

Work on your time, send on theirs.

Confidential Mode:

Sometimes you send an email you'd prefer not live on forever.

Better yet, you'd like it if the recipient wasn't able to save, copy, or forward to someone else.

With confidential mode, you can do just that.

Set expiration dates, require passcodes, & more.

10 must-have Excel skills everyone should know: 📊

Sparklines:

One of my personal favorites.

Sparklines allow you to insert miniature graphs inside an individual cell to easily visualize data.

•Select range
•Insert ⇢ Sparkline
• Choose type

People Graph:

I'm a big fan of visual representations of data.

Using 'People Graph' is an easy way to liven up your spreadsheet, especially when tracking metrics related to, well, humans.

Create an infographic to visualize social media engagement, app users, customers, & more.

Tables:

If you're not using tables in Excel, you should be.

• Clean formatting
• Auto-expand as new data is added
• Total row quick and easy data summaries
• Formulas carry through entire columns
• Create dynamic charts that update automatically & much more.

Here's how:

Slicer:

Now that you're using tables, let's insert one of my favorite filtering tools.

The Slicer

•Click anywhere inside a table
•Go to table ⇢ insert slicer
•Select the fields you want

A dialog box will appear.

Click any slicer button & data is filtered accordingly.

The 5-step system I use to automate my brain and never forget anything: 🧠

It's well documented that the amount of information we're bombarded with these days is unprecedented.

• Keeping track of it
• Capturing Ideas as they come
• Allowing yourself space to distill it later

None of this happens without a plan.

Here's how to get started:

We'll use a simple set of (3) software platforms to:

• Quickly Capture ideas as they come
– Google Tasks

• Automate sending them to a database
– Zapier

• Organize and categorize for action later
– Notion

All Free.

First things first.

You'll need to set up an account (if you don't have one already) with each of the platforms listed above.

Don't worry––for what we're going to build, the free plans for each should work just fine.

•Google
•Notion
•Zapier

OK, let's start building

1st––Google Tasks

• In your Gmail inbox, it's in the right-side panel

• Or download the app for quick access on your phone.

This is where I capture ideas "on the fly"

No structure, no organization, we'll worry about that later.

Just capture ideas!

Don't lose today planning for tomorrow.

Don't join the pack –– Lead it.

10 Stoic principles that will immediately change your life: 🧵

On Wealth:

We all want more.

More things, more money, more prestige...

Whatever 'it' is, we never seem to have enough.

But what if we measured wealth differently?

Not by what we don't have, but by what we don't need?

True wealth is found in wanting less, not having more.

On Truth:

Too often we become set in our ways.

We believe our opinion is right, and are unwilling to consider alternate perspectives.

Have an open mind.

Be willing to change.

He who thinks he knows everything knows nothing.

On Control:

Some things we can change, some we cannot.

The secret to happiness lies in the ability to differentiate between the two.

Ask yourself:

Do I have the power to change this?

If so, get to it.

If not, move on.

On Looking Back:

Quit living in the past.

I've been guilty of this, as I'm sure you have as well.

Stop worrying about what could have been or what you should have done.

Start new. Start fresh. Start today.

What's done is done, but the future has yet to be written.