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Overcoming your Ego

Mo — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:30:17 +0000

Ego is a big deal for most guys; it plays a big role when there is a guy to guy competition or challenge. How do we learn to control our ego? We control our ego through having knowledge and being smart. Lets take lifting weights for example!

Everyone wants to lift more then the guy standing next to him, well based on what I have seen in the gym; most people lift heavy but they don’t do it in the right form. They don’t let the muscle fully contract and fully expand while doing their work out exercise. As a result they don’t get the benefit of lifting. There is a guy that I always see lifting weights almost every time I go to the gym, he lifts heavy and heavier than I can lift. I started asking myself.. howcome this old guy that barely have any muscles, is able to lift heavier then I can? It turns out he lifts wrong, doesn’t even contract his muscles half the way. No wonder he doesn’t look muscular or fit.

The key in lifting weights is doing it the right way, and slowly improving the more your do it. It doesn’t matter if the guy next to you is lifting heavier, it’s all about doing it the right way.

Conference in Las Vegas

Mo — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:28:48 +0000

Last Week I went to Vegas for devconnections conference. It had everything from Microsoft SQL 2005 to Office Sharpoint, ASP.NET, Visual Studio 05, Windows Vista, Security Active Directory and Group Policies. The conference itself was very well worth it. Now the Trip going there was kinda pain in the butt. Let me just start by saying when we went to the Airport to Fly to Detroit there was no plane available. We had to take the bus to Detroit which is about 5 hours.

Got on the plane and guess what, the Smoke detector came on so we had to switch planes. On the way back there was a disabled plane on the runway so we couldn’t land when we were supposed to so we did a detour in the sky. After we landed on the next flight connection was cancelled due to Snow Storm. We ended up renting a car and driving through the storm. I drove for 7 to 8 hours straight going through NON-STOP rain and then sleet then Snow. It doesn’t end here, we get home and there was power outage. Go figure! hehe . Other than that the conference was pretty good and Vegas was well , Just Vegas

Nike+Ipod

Mo — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:04:49 +0000

I bought the NeW NIKE+Ipod Sports kit and yes I’m ready to get running again. If you haven’t heard about it; here take a look at and see what it does.

I will write the review about it after I use it

Top 5

Mo — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:03:01 +0000

Tennis Tips¬† is on the FIRST page on google and yes it is one of the TOP 5 on the first PAGE!!! Sweeeeeeeet! After a long time finally google likes me now!

Number one on Yahoo¬†

What Defines us?

Mo — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:32:15 +0000

Is it things that happen to us? is it things we do? or is it just who we ARE!

I think we define ourselves, it does has to do alittle bit with who your parents are and the way they raised you, in otherwords the envirenment you were born in. However when it boils down to it, it’s all in our control to define our personality and our life. Things we do, decicsions we make on daily basis, the way we handle defeat, the way we rise to the occasions to face challenge, our patience to achieving something, staying the course, having a positive attitude, working hard to get to where we want, Having goals and making them happen. Learning from mistakes we do and from other people’s mistakes, understanding that everything we got can go away in a second. Facing the music, being passionate about what we love, taking risks when it matters, being mentally strong and just going for it!

Vacation

Mo — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 18:57:58 +0000

~~Time for my vacation! Taking time off from work from June 7 till 20. I havent been home in 6 years! I miss it bigtime “The land of Cedars”!~~

~~Well I will post some of the pictures after I come back so stay tuned!~~

~~Boy do I miss the lebanese food? Umm how about my Mom’s 4 layer chocolate cake!~~

Good thing I lost 18 lbs!

It didn’t work out. Maybe some other time!

First Tourney at SVSU

Mo — Thu, 25 May 2006 13:36:48 +0000

Wish me luck people!

First tourney this summer at the courts of SVSU and I’m looking forward to it! Let’s do a quick comparison between Mo of summer 05 and Mo of summer 06.

At this point Mo is 6 pounds lighter then last summer, more weight is to be shed off as well.
Mo has beaten the Number one player in Alpena.
Mo has made his backhand his weapon instead of his weakness.
Mo has biked Hubbard Lake over 10 times already and it’s not even summer yet, I.E legs in better shape then last summer.

Well, some more work needs to be done but we’ll see how we’ll do on the first tourney.

Contest Week #1

Mo — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:30:33 +0000

Guess who is in the lead?

Mr Mo 7.4 pounds lost in the first week! How? to make the story short “Dedication”

1- Cereal and Milk for breakfast.
2- Slim fast for lunch

3- Salad for dinner.. chicken, shrimp, tuna..

4- snacks through out the day only “Fruits”

5- Workin out 4 days a week. Strictly cardio

Will see abt next week..

Weight-Contest

Mo — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:19:04 +0000

I’ve been trying to eat healthy lately and get in better shape, however I’ve been slacking from time to time. So I decided the best way to motivate myself is to have some competition. I came up with the idea of have a contest of who loses the most weight at work. Every friday we weigh ourselves and the one the loses the most get a free 5 day refill of slim fast bottles.

My tennis tournaments start at the end of May so I need to be fit and lighter than last summer. That’s the goal this year. I joined the Alpena tennis team and our first tourney is actually at the end of April and its sponsered by USTA. We play different teams from northeast Michigan and if we do good the state district championship is in Indiana. However we gotta play some matches before we get there. The first tourney is in Traverse city and the next is in GrandRapids.

I figured if Agassi lost some weight to play better tennis why shouldn’t I ?

Good Raviolli

Mo — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:08:18 +0000

Yesterday I made Raviolli for the first time and I have to say I’m becoming “The Cook” …. Ya some might say all it is is boil the thing and pour some sauce into it… Well piss off… it still takes skill to make it taste good

Oh ya I bought a ticket to go home ” Land of Cedars”¬† in June for a couple of weeks so I’m excited….. see the fam and the friends…¬†¬† other than that what;s going on in Mo’s Land.. Just workin and working out… Still trying to recover from that shoulder injury!