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.
As a runner, I do tend to ignore upper body strength sometimes. Strength training workouts get stepchild treatment versus runs or cycling. This lockdown got me thinking more towards full-body
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The items mentioned in this list of snack ideas are a collection of Indian and western snacks ideal for afternoon tea time hunger. Some of these need no cooking and some do need a quick-cooking step.
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I bring you here another edition of Running Basics. I am so glad that so many of you wrote to me about how much you loved it. So, keeping in mind the Quarantine worries, here are few running
I am a fan of speed reading. Last month I continued the habit series by taking up a challenge on reading to test my speed reading skills and polish it. My easy guideline for the challenge was to at
Do read my earlier articles on running injury free and running outfits in the running basics series, before you continue reading. Here I talk about specific pointers that are running basics for
Please read about the 4 steps to organizing your wardrobe before you continue. I elaborated on the first step of clustering here. The second step of decluttering here. The third
Please read about the 4 steps to organizing your wardrobe before you continue. I elaborated on the first step of clustering here. The second step of decluttering here. And now I will
Please read about the 4 steps to organizing your wardrobe before you continue. I elaborated on the first step of clustering here. And now I will talk about ways to declutter your wardrobe. #1
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