Random Thought Process

An insight into my slightly jumbled ideas!

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Top Gadgets we Don't Need but Have to Have!

Top Gadgets we Don’t Need but Have to Have!

  I’m a bit of a gadget freak. I’m also surrounded by people who are the same as me, so when something new hits the market I want to get my hands on it. I spend a few weeks convincing myself how much easier it will make my life. Weigh up the pros and cons of raiding my savings account and inevitably end up buying it anyway. Then the item enters one of two realms; the handbag or the top of the…

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The Five Feelings of Holiday Dread

The Five Feelings of Holiday Dread

Holidays are stressful. They contradict our reasoning for living on rice for 3 months to afford them. The stress that goes into planning a holiday is unrivaled. However, once everything is planned and booked you can sit back, relax and enjoy the excitement of waiting.

That is until you start to pack your bag and the five feelings of holiday dread set in.

  Your passport will go missing

Even if…

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Monday Motivation- Eat Clean!

Monday Motivation- Eat Clean!

It’s a Monday and it’s starting to get warm outside. The thoughts of parading myself around in front of people while wearing shorts makes me feel slightly ill (not aided by the fact that I have alabaster white Irish skin). I carry several bottles of factor 50 sun-cream on holiday with me and have on occasion seriously considered purchasing a novelty sombrero. In fact, the only thing that has…

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Happy Project Day!

  If you have been anywhere near social media today than you know its Friday. Thank you everyone, I woke today feeling very confused but you have all confirmed the day for me… good job! Yes it is Friday, but instead of just posting a stolen image from Google or an Instagram post with every #Friday combination imaginable; Random Thought Process is doing something a little different.

We are saying…

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Monday Motivation

The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

The Ladder of St. Augustine, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Half the Fun of it

Half the fun of it; 5 top tips for booking your holiday

  There is something refreshingly stressful about booking a holiday. Especially if you haven’t decided where you want to go yet and if you’re working off a budget. If this is your current situation than welcome to our own personal corner of hell! I’m still recovering from a gender prefix mix-up while booking a Ryanair flight…. *Shudders* It took a bottle of Desperados to get over that one. .

In…

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Quote of the Week

Quote of the Week

  ‘The strongest trees grow with the wind against them’

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Stand your ground and push for what you believe in. Every great idea starts somewhere. Take advice with thanks but don’t let people change everything you are and do. Your ideas and passions are important; stick to them.

#MondayMotivation

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Get Free E-Books!

  E-readers have become a holiday staple over the last few years. Now we can save kilos of luggage space by bringing all our favorite books downloaded in one place.

To keep you busy this summer we have pulled together some free e-book websites. If you choose to subscribe you will get a daily newsletter of free and discounted e-books directly to your email address. You can also customize you’re…

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Top 5 Tips for Getting Started on your First Novel

Top 5 Tips for Getting Started on your First Novel

  Below are a few tips to get your writing your first novel. These tips helped me to get organised and start writing, but everyone is different! Just work in a way that keeps you productive and passionate; that’s what it is all about.

  1.Pick a Day, a Set Time and Get Writing

I prefer to do my writing away from my home.  There are far fewer distractions. I love the library; its usually quiet,…

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Wisdom Wednesday!

  Happy midweek everyone! Here’s a bit of motivation to keep you going. Legends and proverbs are lessons. Make this one count.

  It is better to live for 1 day as a lion, than for 1000 years as a sheep

Tibetan Proverb

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#BeforeYoutube

Does anyone remember having to rewind video tapes?

Or the annoyance when you rented one from the video store and the person before had forgotten to rewind it!

  So many hours spent crouched in front of a TV waiting for these to rewind!

  #Nostalgia #BeforeYoutube

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Quote of the Week

Quote of the Week

Respect the people around and never forget to thank them. Without them, you wouldn’t be the person you are today.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

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Spare £280? Get the new Kindle Oasis!

Spare £280? Get the new Kindle Oasis!

  Amazon have become a globally recognized brand; for online shopping and cloud computing. Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, Amazon have come a long way since becoming one of the leading online book stores for everyone who likes 1p novels!

With all this in mind, you would think that a lot of time, money and creative thinking goes into creating each new product that Amazon decides to commission.…

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Low-GI Breakdown and Recipe

Low-GI Breakdown and Recipe

Happy Bank Holiday Monday everyone. We are feeling slightly guilty after such a mad bank holiday weekend and have just finished an Easter egg for breakfast….. So here is a breakdown of Low-GI foods and a few healthy recipes to kick start the week.

  This chart was sourced from urbanhealthnw.com

Low-GI stands for low Glycemic Index foods. Foods with a low-GI are absorbed and digested slowly by the…

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Is the Age of the Blackberry Over?

Is the Age of the Blackberry Over?

  Does everyone remember those ridiculously big and confusing device that was the Blackberry. With its full QWERTY keypad and the world’s smallest buttons; the Blackberry was used by almost every person wearing a suit. Teamed with the super cool in ear Bluetooth piece…

First released in 1999, it seems that this piece of retro kit is missing out on the vintage revolution. In…

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Happy World Poetry Day

Happy World Poetry Day

Poetry is one of the earliest forms of story telling. From epics such as The Aeneid and The Iliad, right up to modern day works. It is an undying art form that is still revered today. The Charge of the Light Brigade was written by Lord Tennyson to honour the dead men who charged against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War. The poem celebrates the…

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Time to book holidays yet??