Ryan Floyd

Husband, Dad to 2, Gamer, photography enthusiast, twitterer, facebooker, gadgeteer, techie , EG regular, Marvel Champions LCG fan!

[Ryan Floyd @PrivateFloyd]

#gmb ask this executive headteacher what his salary is versus an average salary.

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#gmb I work in leisure and my wife is cabin crew where taking holiday is very difficult during traditional holiday weeks. Criminalising parents for holidays is outrageous. Singular, short term consistent absences should be challenged where there is no reasons.

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#gmb #itv got fined £500 for a recent Florida trip. Yet teachers switch off the last week of terms before holidays. But we get told we are negatively impacting our children’s education! Either scrap the fines or take meaningful action against ridiculous price hikes on holidays!

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This is 11 year old Max on his first snowboard holiday this year!

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#skisunday #andorra

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#VampireSurvivors #NintendoSwitch

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#VampireSurvivors #NintendoSwitch

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@WarningSainz @AXS_UK 4? Is Mike a closet swiftie?!

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@FarrarTamara Yep

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@hollyxbirnie Still in a queue

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At one point, Matthew McConaughey had his acting career, his family, a foundation, a film production company, and a record company.

In 2008, he shut down the production company and the record label.

"I was making B’s in 5 things," he said. "I want to make A's in three things."

By shutting down the production company and the music label, McConaughey said, "I did start making much better grades, so to speak, in those 3 things."

“Alright, alright, alright.”

Takeaway 1:

“If you seek tranquillity,” the philosopher King Marcus Aurelius wrote, “do less.”

And then he points out that doing less "brings a double satisfaction."

You get the satisfaction of having fewer things on your to-do list. And you get the satisfaction of doing those fewer things at a higher level.

You get "to do less, better."

Takeaway 2:

Shutting down the production company and the music label, McConaughey said, was hard to do. He liked having a production company and a music label.

It reminds me of the legendary Apple designer Jony Ive's definition of focus:

“What focus means is saying no to something that you—with every bone in your body—think is a phenomenal idea, and you wake up thinking about it, but you say no to it because you’re focusing on something else.”

Focus requires sacrifice. Making A's, so to speak, requires saying no to things you like and want to do because you’re saying yes to things you love and have to do.

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"You gain more by finding a rich mine and mining it deeper, than by flitting from one shallow mine to another—intensity defeats extensity every time...As Schopenhauer wrote, 'Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.'" — Robert Greene

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#PS5Share, #STARWARSJediSurvivor

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#PS5Share, #STARWARSJediSurvivor

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@LondonMarathon
Completed it mate.

#londonmarathon #running @dsuksnowsport

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Running the @LondonMarathon on Sunday for @dsuksnowsport 🏃🏽‍♂️🏂⛷️

If you can donate, like, retweet I would appreciate it so much ❤️

https://t.co/hyhmaSChv8

#weruntogether #london #marathon #running #charity @SnowDomeTam @LondonMarathon

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@HuntTheMusic I know!! Was playing on Tour controls as well with no spin control etc.

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#PS5Share, #PGATour

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In 3 weeks time my body will likely be in bits having completed the @LondonMarathon the day before!!

Please consider a donation to my chosen charity @dsuksnowsport I’m just under halfway of my fundraising goal, any donation is appreciated!

https://t.co/hyhmaSChv8

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@kelvmackenzie What an absolute cockwomble you are.

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@DangervilleTeam @King_Cassius13 Genuinely thought you were going to say the pterodactyls….their heads reminded me of the 4 legged creatures from Abes Oddysee!