Phillip Owen Swart

Family man, entrepreneur at heart, UTD fan not much else to it.....

[Jared Wright @jaredwright17]

TOP DOG AT 10! 😂

Let's go @ITVRugby!

[Phillip Owen Swart @PSwart]

@News24 Not good enough @news24!!! All involved (incl @AdriaanBasson) should tender the resignation. Race baiting for clicks by #news24 and #MSM is disgraceful!!! Keep you head up @janbraai!!

[Phillip Owen Swart @PSwart]

@CyrilRamaphosa Shocking, unshameful and insufferable. Wasting state funds to campaign for the ANC. Just when you think he could not sink any lower. Corrupt to the core

[Phillip Owen Swart @PSwart]

@PresidencyZA @CyrilRamaphosa No Mr President, the misallocation you should be referring to, is that which your party members have generously misallocated to their own back pockets. Will you lead by being the first one to give up your private health care and seek medical care at a local government facility?

[Phillip Owen Swart @PSwart]

@RenaldoGouws Fought against jobs, created state capture, created loadshedding and mastered in corruption, there I fixed it for him.

[Phillip Owen Swart @PSwart]

@C_NZ_ @AllBlacks #LivingRentFree

[Phillip Owen Swart @PSwart]

"Beware of envying successful humans.

The price you would need to pay to be the people you admire is often one you would not foot the bill for."

Thanks to @ChrisWillx for this gem!

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy absolutely obliterates woke reporter who tries asking him a 'gotcha' question about condemning white supremacy.

Amazing 🔥🔥🔥

“I'm not gonna recite some catechism for you. I'm against vicious racial discrimination in this country, so I'm not pledging allegiance to your new religion of modern wokeism.”

“You wanna know what the best way is to end discrimination on the basis of race. Stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

“You people have been responsible for dividing this country to a breaking point, creating a projection of national division.”

“Shame on you. Look people in the eye and tell them what you've actually failed to tell them for the last five years. Own the accountability for your own failures as the media.”

Video: @Chris_Carapezza

[Phillip Owen Swart @PSwart]

@CyrilRamaphosa You, Mr President and your ANC cadres are an insufferable bunch. Your well wishes are hollow based on your actions and statements that come before it.

[Phillip Owen Swart @PSwart]

@News24 Deserved

[Phillip Owen Swart @PSwart]

@brucebusiness @StevenBartlett Superb, @StevenBartlett is brilliant.
@brucebusiness where else can one listen to the interview after the broadcast?

[Phillip Owen Swart @PSwart]

"Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them" - Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

[Phillip Owen Swart @PSwart]

@WorldRugby, showing how neutral they really are......

[Phillip Owen Swart @PSwart]

"The goal isnt to have the perfect daily routine tomorrow, the goal is to still be winning your daily routine in 50 years time" - @ChrisWillx

[Phillip Owen Swart @PSwart]

@marklyall581 @RugbyPass Living rent free

[Phillip Owen Swart @PSwart]

@SARugbymag Living rent free in their heads all day long.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

What most people imagine progress looks like…

Steady growth with a clear path in sight.

What progress really looks like…

You find out yet another thing you tried didn’t work.

What makes it hard isn’t the work, it’s not knowing.
(Which is why it’s called learning)

[Phillip Owen Swart @PSwart]

@SABCNews And who actually gives a damn any more. Move on and report on things that actually matter now days

[Phillip Owen Swart @PSwart]

@SABCNews GTFO with the BS, and move on

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

Here’s a lesson I learned from Sam Harris…

I asked him about why our minds are their own worst enemies sometimes.

Why we can be so much meaner to ourselves than we ever would be to the people around us.

“To a first approximation, wisdom is the capacity to take your own advice.

You effortlessly give that advice to others.

If you could just give it and successfully receive it yourself, you’re basically Socrates.”

Very Petersonian here.

“Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.”

An interesting fact – if you have a dog, the chance of you ensuring that they complete their course of antibiotics is over 90%.

However the likelihood of you completing your own course is less than 50%.

This fact identifies something about our nature.

It is much easier to look after someone else than it is to look after ourselves.

This manifests in our self talk too.

The constant inner monologue we have running can be our harshest critic.

It knows exactly the pain points, insecurities and deepest fears to twist the knife into.

If anyone else said the things we tell ourselves, they would be our worst enemy.

There’s no one who you’ll spend as much time talking to as yourself.

We are born, and will die, alone.

Even the most invested of friends & family are essentially just spectators waving cheerily from the shore as you swim through the swell.

That inner monologue which is running inside your head will rarely stop.

So you’d better become friends with it.

The balance of compassion, care & encouragement Sam and Jordan are talking about here IS the sweet spot.

You want the absolute best for the person you are helping.

But you don’t get them there by abusing them.

How many times have you been asked a question by a friend, to which you have given an answer that you yourself would wholly benefit from hearing?

You deliver it with a soft, caring smile which accepts your friend’s failures whilst providing them with a pathway to improvement and an encouraging push to get them going.

However when you are faced with the same problem yourself, you’re met with nothing but a thought loop of self-loathing, pity and scorn at your own shortcomings.

A reminder of how far away from your potential you are and a harsh kick in the dick on the way out of the door.

The point here is that the line between being tough enough to motivate and gentle enough to be understanding is wider than you think.

You can afford to give yourself a break.

If you demand the best from yourself, this should also include being the best at encouraging yourself when things don’t go perfectly.