Things Worth Repeating Daily
- Take deep breaths
- You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take
- Do it now
- Get action!
- Follow your dreams
- Believe in yourself
- You love music
- Be different
- Do great work
- Have fun
- Winning solves everything
- Smile
- Stress is good
- Question everything
- Don’t be afraid to ask why
- Visualize your success
- Go to the Mecca
- Be useful
- Carry yourself with bravery, strength and courage
- Compounding matters
- Repetition matters
- Embrace tailwinds
- Be mindful of power laws
- Relationships matter
- Action inspires confidence
- Think big
- Think creatively
- Be truth-seeking
- The world is malleable
- We’re all just people
- Perception shapes reality
- You have to market and advertise yourself
- Believe that the universe can conspire in your favor
- Be so good they can’t ignore you
- Follow your curiosity
- Ask important questions
- Incentives matter
- You cannot care what other people think if you want to be successful
- You can’t experience the joy of winning without the fear and risk of failure
- Have skin in the game
- Shipping > perfection
- You don’t get better at something by not doing it
- Enjoy the ride
- If conditions change, then you change
- If you don’t love it, you’re going to lose
- You have to be willing to put yourself in a position to lose
- If you don’t want to scream in victory or defeat, you don’t want it
- Want to be the best
- You set your standards, you set your purpose, no one can take that away from you
- Strive to be high output
- Any day can be the first day of the rest of your life
- Be bold enough to try
- Be bold enough to have a perspective
- Be bold enough to enter the arena
- You GET to do this, it’s a privilege
- Ultimately, the best competition is competing against yourself — therefore, one of the best questions you can ask is “Is that the best you got? // Is that the best you can do?”
- Do the thing and you will learn along the way, don’t over-index on advice
- Be the best you can be
- We’re all just people at the end of the day
- Will it matter in an hour? A day? A month? A year? 5 years? 10 years? 50 years?
- What’s your edge?
- Life as a series of missions, challenges and explorations
- Focusing on one thing at a time is more fun and more impactful
- Going slower isn’t a bad thing
- Actions = Values
- Have a winner’s mentality
- Keep it simple
- You own your personal scorecard
- Be high agency
- Make your voice heard
- There is no one path
- Do the work; do it now!
- What’s your mission?
- Bet on yourself
- Be mindful of cause and effect in your thoughts, words and deeds
- In uncertainty, get to wrong as fast as you can
- Set deadlines with meaningful consequences
- Strive for freedom, independence and control
- What’s the best you can do today?
- Practice the golden rule and the silver rule
- If you’re going to speak, be heard
- Metaphors are important
- Even the best still miss, sometimes often
- All you can do is one thing at a time
- When it comes to what you resolve to do on any given day, the order is fairly inconsequential. A day is not a long period of time.
- If you’re going to sweat the small stuff, you’re far from antifragile
- There’s a million things out there from credible people offering advice on everything under the sun. The question is whether you trust yourself enough to do what you think is right.
- What’s the point of gathering new information if you’re not going to do anything with it?
- Your actions are your values. What you do is who you are.
- Word is bond.
- If you’re not living the life you wish to live, you only have yourself to blame.
- There is nothing wrong with wanting to make a name for yourself.
- Get noticed
- Work hard, have fun, make history
- The journey is the reward
- Strike while the iron is hot
- At a certain point, doing something is better than doing nothing, even if it’s the wrong thing
- Rip the bandaid off
Thoughts and habits not conducive to the work — Rick Rubin
- Believing you’re not good enough
- Feeling you don’t have the energy it takes
- Mistaking adopted rules for absolute truths
- Not wanting to do the work (laziness)
- Not taking the work to its highest expression (settling)
- Having goals so ambitious that you can’t begin
- Thinking you can only do your best work in certain conditions
- Requiring specific tools or equipment to do the work
- Abandoning a project as soon as it gets difficult
- Feeling like you need permission to start or move forward
- Letting a perceived need for funding, equipment or support get in the way
- Having too many ideas and not knowing where to start
- Never finishing projects
- Blaming circumstances or other people for interfering with your process
- Romanticizing negative behaviors or addictions
- Believing a certain mood or state is necessary to do your best work
- Prioritizing other activities and responsibilities over your commitment to making art
- Distractibility and procrastination
- Impatience
- Thinking anything that’s out of your control is in your way
Affirmations — Tiger Woods
- I believe in me
- I will own my own destiny
- I smile at obstacles
- I am first in my resolve
- I fulfill my resolutions powerfully
- My strength is great
- I stick to it, easily, naturally
- My will moves mountains
- I focus and give it my all
- My decisions are strong
- I do it with all my heart
About
Grayson Kinsella serves as a Partner and Chief Portfolio Officer at MVP Ventures, where he is focused on executing a strategy for delivering outsize value to MVP portfolio companies. He has spent his career helping innovative technology companies grow and scale.
Prior to MVP, Grayson was a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture capital firm, where he advised founders on all aspects of their go-to-market strategy. He also identified enterprise technology trends for the firm’s leadership and developed strategic partnership opportunities between portfolio companies and management teams across the Global 2000 and government agencies. Previously, he served in a variety of business development roles at Quorum, a Washington, D.C.-based legislative and regulatory software company, which he helped bootstrap.
Grayson holds a BA in Political Science from the George Washington University.
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