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 we all learn to embrace the new normal during the lockdown, here are 10 things that I learnt from it. #1 Home Workouts Being a regular runner and marathoner, not being able to workout outdoors has
In the first 15 days of this month, I worked on my next habit experiment of Intermittent fasting. Though I knew the benefits of fasting before, this was a format I had never tried. Some call it a fad
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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.
Many people think that minimal dressing means small closets, few colors, no prints, and basically black and white life. It could be true for some minimalists who like to stick to monochromes but that
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
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