Poornima Jha grew up in Chennai, though her roots are from Darbhanga, Bihar. She lives in Nuremberg, Germany with her husband who is her biggest fan and supporter. She has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering and an Executive MBA from IIM Kozhikode. Alongside managing a team of embedded software programmers in her day job, she is a lifestyle blogger and a marathoner. She has travelled to several countries on adventures.
She wrote "Need Over want", her debut book, which took shape after years of blogging on her website lawsofpositivelifestyle.com. The blog was where she had been pouring the lessons from her lifestyle experiments so far. At work and outside, she yearns to be a serial skill-collector. She balances her free time by juggling between – running full marathons, cycling long-distances, dancing, swimming, playing badminton, stitching, painting and carpentry.
Write the number of tasks done on a paper end of each day. Try beating it as often as you can. – Idea from Dale Carnegie Dale Carnegie suggested in one of his books to beat your daily tasks
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