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Optima-life specialises in optimising health, wellbeing and performance in work, sport and everyday life.
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It’s Time To Talk Time

January 6, 2020/in Optima-life Blog /by Simon Shepard

If you were granted 10% more time in your day, a magical 144 extra minutes, what would you do with it?  Relax, sleep, answer more emails, get to the gym – there are many possible answers to a question which is, unfortunately, a mere fantasy.  In a world that is rapidly changing, maybe the one […]

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Growing Pains

January 6, 2020/in Optima-life Blog /by Simon Shepard

It was nearly twenty years ago that the dot com bubble burst.  Invention, adoption, growth, expansion, more, more and more……….. then, all of a sudden, bust with some serious corporate casualties along the way. As we move forward into the next decade there are other sectors that are growing at a significant rate.  Have they […]

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Something for the Weekend: Why Work can be ‘The Goody’​ in the Work Life Balancing Act

August 2, 2019/in Optima-life Blog /by Simon Shepard

Over the past ten years, I have collected a heap of physiological data on UK PLC whilst it goes about its routine week. The data will look at things such as stress, sleep, physical activity, resilience, and has been collected from lots of different sectors, on people with varying skills and titles. There are many personal stories […]

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Bridge the Gap

July 29, 2019/in Optima-life Blog /by Simon Shepard

Earlier this year I was asked to moderate a two-day conference in Finland. The event, hosted by @FirstbeatTechnologies, brought together speakers from around the world and focused on the theme ‘Elements of Optimal Performance’. There were some excellent presentations from the world of health, sport and work but there was one phrase that really struck […]

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#WeAre10

July 2, 2018/in Optima-life Blog, Optima-life News /by Optima-life

Celebrating is a good thing to do.  So in the month that Optima-life reaches the grand old age of 10 we’d like to celebrate in three ways. Say THANK YOU. Success has been born out of collaboration, adventure and belief.  So a big thank you to our clients, our confidantes, our critics, our advisors and […]

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The Data of Stress: From Understanding to Recognition

May 16, 2018/in Optima-life Blog /by Optima-life

This week marks Mental Health Awareness week, and with this being hot on the heels of National Stress Awareness month the topic of looking after mind as well as body is quite rightly making the press. As an organisation that has worked in this arena for the past decade and has physiological data relating to […]

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NHS Staff – Who is Caring for You? Shifting to a Salutogenic mindset

February 14, 2018/in Optima-life Blog /by Simon Shepard

Four years ago, I completed a tender document for an automotive company looking for a partner to deliver a strand of work entitled Health & Leadership.  If I am honest, most tender documents I find quite tedious to plough through, so it was interesting to come across a word that I had never heard before.  […]

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NHS Staff – Who is Caring for You? Do Carers Really Know How They Feel?

February 8, 2018/in Optima-life Blog /by Optima-life

How do those whose job is to care for others cope with the impact on their own health? And are they their own best judges? Over the past ten years we have worked with nearly 100 different NHS organisations.  We have aggregated data from around 1500 days and nights and with over a billion data […]

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NHS Staff- Who’s Caring for You? Night Shifts and the “Negotiable: Non-Negotiable” Equation

February 2, 2018/in Optima-life Blog /by Simon Shepard

When delivering workshops, I often talk about the balance between non-negotiable and negotiable demands.  These demands can change on a daily basis and this is so true when considering the demands of shift working. In the world of the #NHS, working a night shift is potentially one of those non-negotiables, on the other hand how […]

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NHS Staff – Who’s caring for you?  Working in the VUCA world of the 21st Century

January 26, 2018/in Optima-life Blog /by Optima-life

Apparently we live in a #VUCA world, whether it be the Volatility of extremism and terror, the Uncertainty created by the likes of Trump, the Complexity that continuing layers of process and communication produces, or the Ambiguity of socio-political events such as #Brexit.  Having worked with NHS organisations over the past five years it seems […]

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NHS Staff – Who is Caring for You? The “Other” Challenge Facing NHS Leaders

January 12, 2018/in Optima-life Blog /by Optima-life

The New Year news has been dominated by stories of the NHS under severe pressure. But behind the headlines, what is the impact of all this on the health of those who work there? Long-term stress in the NHS is up by nearly 20% – so who will care for the carers? What can NHS […]

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Look Back, Talk Aloud and Think ‘Why?’

January 3, 2018/in Optima-life Blog /by Optima-life

It’s that time of year where the annual ritual of self-delusion reaches full swing, where dreams are dreamt, ambitions are articulated, and promises are made.  Yes folks, it is resolution time and we want to give you a couple of things to think about before you jump into the abyss of meaningless self-talk! Firstly, look […]

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