dave murray

Director of Performance @ Leeds Gymnastics Club

[dave murray @Murray7Dave]

@SkySportsPL @AlternativeMUFC

[dave murray @Murray7Dave]

@talkSPORT @AlternativeMUFC

[World Gymnastics @gymnastics]

Here's Harry Hepworth 🇬🇧 with an astonishingly powerful piked Dragulescu vault in Osijek World Cup finals! The difficulty helped Hepworth topple World Cup Vault king Artur Davtyan 🇦🇲, who nevertheless gave one of his patented near-perfect performances.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

My favorite quote from Atomic Habits by James Clear:

"It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it.
If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire.
To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment."

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

One key differentiator for elite performers?

They don’t see it as a sacrifice.

Going to bed early, skipping the party, putting in hours of practice...

That’s not giving something up.

It’s living in alignment with what they care about most.

[Dave Ramsey @DaveRamsey]

Don't give your kids everything you never had. Teach them everything you never knew.

[Tolulope Michael @im_tolumichael]

If you want to grow fast at work, here are 14 behaviors managers quietly reward.

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[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

You can tell how high of a performer someone will be by how quickly they respond, how well they organize their work, and how they react when given feedback.

[Josh @joshpearson180]

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[James Clear @JamesClear]

It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it.

If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process, is to guarantee disappointment.

[BBC Yorkshire @BBCLookNorth]

Rob Burrow MND centre shows 'dreams come true' https://t.co/LW94QDrbmY

[Team GB @TeamGB]

BRITISH ONE-TWO 🥇🥈

Jake Jarman and Luke Whitehouse just stormed the floor exercise at the 2025 Artistic Gymnastics World Champs ��

@BritGymnastics

[lsovago @lsovi]

Impressive GB performance.

Congratulations to the gymnasts and coaches.

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

A message from a Kindergarten teacher:

After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old:

“My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.”

No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s innocent. He blinked, then added, “You don’t even have a TikTok.”

My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind me.

When I started teaching in the early 1980s, it felt like a promise — a shared belief that what we did mattered. We weren’t rich, but we were valued. Parents brought warm cookies to parent nights. Kids gave you handmade cards with hearts that didn’t quite line up. Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic.

But that world slowly slipped away. The job I once knew has been replaced by exhaustion, red tape, and a kind of loneliness I can’t quite describe.

My evenings used to be filled with construction paper, glitter, and glue sticks. Now they’re spent filling out digital reports to protect myself from angry emails or lawsuits. I’ve been yelled at by parents in front of twenty-five children — one filming me with his phone while I tried to calm another child mid-meltdown.

And the kids… they’ve changed too. Not by choice.

They arrive tired, anxious, overstimulated. Their tiny fingers know how to swipe a screen before they can hold a crayon. Some can’t make eye contact or wait in line. We’re expected to fix all of it — to patch the gaps, heal the trauma, teach the curriculum, and document every move — in six hours a day, with resources that barely fill a drawer.

The little reading corner I once built, full of soft beanbags and paper stars, was replaced by data charts and “learning metrics.” A young principal once told me, “Clara, maybe you’re too nurturing. The district wants measurable results.”

As if kindness were a weakness.

Still, I stayed. Because of the small, holy moments that no spreadsheet could measure —
a whisper of, “You remind me of my grandma.”
a shaky note that read, “I feel safe here.”
a quiet boy finally meeting my eyes and saying, “I read the whole page.”

Those tiny sparks were my reason to keep showing up.

But this last year broke something in me.

The aggression grew sharper. The laughter in the staff room turned to silence. The light went out of so many eyes. I watched brilliant teachers — my friends — vanish under the weight of burnout, their joy replaced by survival.

I felt myself fading too, like chalk on a board that’s been wiped one too many times.

So today, I began my goodbye. I pulled faded art off the walls and tucked thirty years of handmade cards into a single box. In the back of a drawer, I found a letter from a student from 1998:

“Thank you for loving me when I was hard to love.”

I sat on the floor and cried.

No party. No applause. Just a handshake from a young principal who called me “Ma’am” while checking his notifications.

I left my rocking chair behind, and my sticker box too. What I carried with me were the memories — the faces of hundreds of children who once trusted me enough to reach out their hands and learn. That can’t be uploaded. It can’t be measured. It can’t be replaced.

I miss when teachers were partners, not targets. When parents and educators worked side by side, not in opposition. When schools cared more about wonder than numbers.

So if you know a teacher — any teacher — thank them. Not with a mug or a gift card, but with your words. With your respect. With your understanding that behind every test score is a heart that cared enough to try.

Because in a world that often overlooks them, teachers are the ones who never forget our children.

[Ryder Cup Europe @RyderCupEurope]

OUR TIME. OUR PLACE.

[harry (beard) hastings @Mellowwwvv]

suicide is never the answer reach out. call 111, or 999. please don’t take your own life we all miss you dad.

[dave murray @Murray7Dave]

@BBCMOTD 💯

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Had a mentor tell me once: "When you're feeling overwhelmed, there are only two things you should do: get organized and get to work. The rest is just noise. Peace is found in progress."

[Ball is Psych @BallisPsych]

The body's response to being stretched beyond its limits is strength. You have to get sore to get strong. You have to face adversity to grow. #DailyWisdom

[dave murray @Murray7Dave]

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