envious-dev – Optima Life – Festival of us https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk With Optima Life Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:20:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 New kitchen https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/new-kitchen/ https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/new-kitchen/#respond Fri, 20 Sep 2019 12:30:58 +0000 http://festivalofus.enviousdigital.uk/?p=726

We realise (after receiving many comments) that our kitchen had become rather dated and could do with a refurbishment

Because of this, our new kitchen is going to be fitted on Monday 26th November 2019! We need you to know this, because the usual facilities will not be in operation for a period of 3 days, but a temporary kettle and cold water dispenser will be available in reception

When the new kitchen is finished, we will have a newly tiled floor, a communal eating area, and a sofa lounge in the corner to get some peace and quiet during your breaks (great place for you to read your new books you picked up at our book club event!)

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Introducing new Employee benefits scheme https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/introducing-new-employee-benefits-scheme/ https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/introducing-new-employee-benefits-scheme/#respond Fri, 20 Sep 2019 12:22:56 +0000 http://festivalofus.enviousdigital.uk/?p=723

We are excited to announce that we have joined forces with Work/Life solutions, to be able to offer our employees many discounts and benefits from a variety of High Street names.

As well as this, if you pay for child care, we can provide you with tax relief by towards your child care costs. This amount is then taken from your salary’s taxable amount

Examples of other savings you can make are:-

  • 10% off Currys and PC World
  • Double Nectar points at Sainsburys
  • One free coffee per month at Starbucks

To sign up to the scheme, simply email Richard Starkey at rich@optima-life.com

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We have updated our GDPR policy https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/we-have-updated-our-gdpr-policy/ https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/we-have-updated-our-gdpr-policy/#respond Fri, 20 Sep 2019 12:12:16 +0000 http://festivalofus.enviousdigital.uk/?p=718

As we all know, GDPR is upon us and here at Optima Life, we respect your privacy and your data

Many new employees are asked to provide us with confidential information as part of their application and recruitment process, and we’d like to update you with how this is used and stored

Please download the following policy document letting you know how we treat your information, and if you would like us to remove the items which are not necessary for us to retain

Please contact Emily in HR if you have any further queries

Email Johnson – emily@optima-life.com

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‘Everything you do, you’ll do better with a good nights sleep’ https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/sleep-hygiene/ https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/sleep-hygiene/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:10:26 +0000 http://avada.theme-fusion.com_demos/lifestyle/?p=51

‘Everything you do, you’ll do better with a good nights sleep  Ariana Huffington

They say that life is a balancing act; and this is so true when thinking about how we can counter the mental and physical demands of everyday life with effective recharge and the most important recharge mechanism we have is sleep.  It is something we do for about a third of our lives, yet something that we pay little attention to and when done badly can have some disastrous effects; reports relating to Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Exxon Valdez and Bhopal include fatigue or sleep deprivation as a factor.

Physiologically, a lack of truly restorative sleep has been linked with increases in blood pressure, resting heart rate and the hormone cortisol.  Cortisol is a hormone that has some benefits as it helps regulate circadian rhythm, assists in the release of some of the bodies internal antioxidants and can boost the level of blood glucose (something that on occasion can be beneficial), however cortisol can also have a number of negative effects on the body.  A persistent presence of this hormone can result in challenges to both body and brain.  It can lead to a decrease in reproductive function, lowered immunity and protein synthesis, resulting in a decrease in muscle mass, an increase in abdominal fat and raised blood sugar levels.

In terms of our brain function, restorative sleep is fundamental as it will solidify memory, clear out toxins, enhance our cognition, and boost creativity.  Whilst behaviourally fatigue can lead to being grumpy, forgetful, inconsistent, withdrawn, agitated and aggressive

So, if quality of restorative sleep is a challenge what can you do to help?

1) Health-related Behaviours

  • Do regular exercise – though try and avoid intense exercise late in the evening as this activity is a stimulant
  • Finish eating around 2-3 hours before bedtime.  This will vary depending on the size of a meal and also be aware that going to bed hungry is not good either
  • Be aware of the effects of alcohol.  It may well send you to sleep, but the body has to deal with the toxicity of the substance and therefore the quality of sleep is poor.  As a general rule every unit of alcohol leads to one hours worth of poor quality sleep.  Makes sense if you think about how you may feel when you wake up after a night out on the town
  • Avoid stimulants such as caffeine, nicotine, and sugar

2) Environmental Factors

  • Ensure the room is the right temperature for you
  • As darkness is needed to trigger the sleep hormone melatonin make sure light sources are eliminated
  • Avoid blue light, something that is released by mobile phones, ipads, TV screens, etc as it stimulates the release of dopamine (a hormone that makes us feel alert)
  • Have a supportive and comfortable pillow and mattress
  • Reduce or turn off any disruptive sounds

3) Sleep-specific Behaviours

  • Stick to a regular sleep routine by trying to go to bed and wake up at similar times
  • Avoid bringing  any electronics into your bedroom – charging your phone outside your bedroom also has the benefit of getting you up in the morning when the alarm goes off!
  • Go to bed when you are feeling sleepy – once you stick to a regular sleep routine you will be amazed at how your body learns when it’s bedtime, making you feel sleepy at a specific time
  • Stay in bed only as long as you are tired or asleep
  • If you struggle to switch your mind off then consider creating a note 30 minutes before bedtime.  I suggest the note is a list of what you have done today and what you need to do tomorrow.  It many ways this is the parking lot for the things that often whirl through the mind.

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Fashion secrets designer labels don’t want you to know https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/aenean-odio-mauris-lipsum-3/ https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/aenean-odio-mauris-lipsum-3/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:08:57 +0000 http://avada.theme-fusion.com_demos/lifestyle/?p=45

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It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like)

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Are you eating too much fruit? The hidden sugars explained https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/are-you-eating-too-much-fruit-the-hidden-sugars-in-fruit-explained/ https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/are-you-eating-too-much-fruit-the-hidden-sugars-in-fruit-explained/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:08:13 +0000 http://avada.theme-fusion.com_demos/lifestyle/?p=42

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It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like)

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source.

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Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don’t look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn’t anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.

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A lack of sleep making you put on weight? https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/aenean-odio-mauris-lipsum-5/ https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/aenean-odio-mauris-lipsum-5/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:07:26 +0000 http://avada.theme-fusion.com_demos/lifestyle/?p=39

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It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like)

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source.

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Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don’t look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn’t anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.

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10 tips to improve your home on a tight budget https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/aenean-odio-mauris-lipsum-6/ https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/aenean-odio-mauris-lipsum-6/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:06:37 +0000 http://avada.theme-fusion.com_demos/lifestyle/?p=36

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It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like)

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source.

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Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don’t look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn’t anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.

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Getting outdoors should not be a difficult task https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/aenean-odio-mauris-lipsum-7/ https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/aenean-odio-mauris-lipsum-7/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:05:43 +0000 http://avada.theme-fusion.com_demos/lifestyle/?p=33

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It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like)

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source.

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Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don’t look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn’t anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.

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Advanced yoga techniques that even beginners can learn https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/aenean-odio-mauris-lipsum-8/ https://optima-life.festivalofus.org.uk/aenean-odio-mauris-lipsum-8/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:04:28 +0000 http://avada.theme-fusion.com_demos/lifestyle/?p=30

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It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like)

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source.

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Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don’t look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn’t anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.

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