Ask the Readers: Exercise Goals and Obstacles

In the week after my marathon, I’m itching to run again. I’ve decided to take this week off running, as I’ve read that it leads to faster recovery. So I started walking yesterday, and I’ll do a little strength training today.

But man, do I miss running.

Next week, I get back into running, just doing a few days of light running. It’s something to look forward to. Until then, I’ll be recuperating and trying to decide what my next fitness goal will be. It’s a lot of fun to contemplate goals — there are so many possibilities!

Ririan on finishing core tasks first, and routines

Ririan, the creator of the excellent Ririan Project, is a student in Bucharest, Romania. He has a passion for books, blogs and websites about productivity, personal development, health, nutrition, leadership and GTD, and takes the time to share his personal experiences to help readers make steps towards creating a better life, day by day.

1) What would you consider your greatest achievement in the last few years? Feel free to add other achievements or goals if you’d like.

Although my biggest achievements are still ahead of me, all the achievements I made up to this date are equally dear to me. Certainly one of them was starting and growing the Ririan Project blog. The benefits and the satisfaction that blogging has been offering me are beyond any measures.

Lifehack founder Leon Ho on success and staying focused

This is one in a series of interviews of notable bloggers in the Zen Habits Golden Goals series.

Leon Ho started one of the most popular productivity and self-development blogs on the Internet: lifehack.org. Leon is a techie who lives in Brisbane, Australia, where he surfs Internet, enjoys his job on Linux, improves himself on management skills. Most of his time, he manages a team of software engineers on delivering internationalization support into Fedora Project and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Also see his linked profile for more.

1) What would you consider your greatest achievement in the last few years? Feel free to add other achievements or goals if you’d like.

Four years ago, one of my goals was transforming my day-job responsibility from software engineering to management, and improve myself in this new position. Two years ago, I was promoted to manager of a software engineering team. Since then I have pushed myself to the limit by learning different aspects of management. Some examples are: I went back to university and studied at night; regularly read books and materials; and founded lifehack.org to share my resources and consolidate my ideas. All of them went well and the results helps my job everyday. Another achievement is definitely the progress at lifehack.org.

Darren Rowse’s undisciplined productivity

This is one in a series of interviews of notable bloggers in the Zen Habits Golden Goals series.

Darren Rowse, an Australian blogger who makes six figures doing what he does, is the co-founder of the b5 media network of blogs, and truly inspires other bloggers with his wildly successful ProBlogger.net blog.

This was a fantastic interview that I’m sure you’ll enjoy, as it gives some great productivity tips (love his Monday Morning Writings) and some insight into a successful blogger.

1) What would you consider your greatest achievement in the last few years? Feel free to add other achievements or goals if you’d like.

Difficult question Leo. I don’t generally think about the things that I do as achievements or failures explicitly and tend to take things a day at a time and then move on.

Golden Goals series: Cyan Ta’eed of FreelanceSwitch on taking on more than you can handle

This is one in a series of interviews of notable bloggers in the Zen Habits Golden Goals series.

Eden Creative Communities co-founder Cyan Ta’eed is a woman of many talents. After working as a freelancer and running her own design agency, Cyan went on to help start a Flash community and more recently to grow the record breaking FreelanceSwitch blog where she dispenses advice, tips and help to other freelancers across the globe.

1) What would you consider your greatest achievement in the last few years? Feel free to add other achievements or goals if you’d like.

As it has only been relatively recently that I started really taking on reaching my goals, it has made the last few years a very exciting time with many achievements.