Tag: power

#949: Use VLOOKUP

Some facts about my dark spreadsheet past:

  1. I had learned to use VLOOKUP before.
  2. I had vowed to use VLOOKUP before.
  3. Whenever I had an opportunity to use VLOOKUP, I forgot how and didn’t want to spend the time or energy re-learning, so I just used a different formula or function.

But yesterday, I had an Excel task I couldn’t see an alternative solution for that wouldn’t require an hour of extra work, so I took the 5 minutes to re-learn how to use VLOOKUP yet again, and then I actually used it.

And it worked.

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#356: Turn down $300

$300 is a not insignificant amount of money to me, and I believe that will always be true.  Even if I become a millionaire after selling the rights to my travel nightmare stories (to be turned into a Lifetime Original Movie in which the heroine meets her husband only as a result of her flight being canceled–it will be called Love in Transit), I have to assume I won’t forget my money-lacking roots.

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#168: Learn the word “plenipotentiary”

I was watching The West Wing (even though I said I wasn’t going to keep watching it) and the president included “plenipotentiary” in his speech when he accepted new foreign ambassadors.  Not only did I not know what the word meant, but I had also never heard it before.

To me, it sounds like it should mean “exhibiting great potential.”  You are plenipotentiary if you show an abundance of promise. Continue reading “#168: Learn the word “plenipotentiary””