Do You Know When To Stop?
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After jumping out on a colleague from behind an office
column and shouting stop, it occurred to me not everyone knows when to stop.
That particular colleague just had to be approached about his cucumbers.
Cucumbers? Yes! He has been sneaking around the office wielding organic
cucumbers and depositing them on unsuspecting colleagues’ desks. I caught him
the other morning in the very act of cucumber delivery. Something about it rang
alarm bells. Since I run a social media team for a large corporation, I considered
how best I could utilise the covert cucumber mission to best effect. So in the
Social Media meeting today, we came up with all manner of cucumber anecdotes
and titles for the blog including the Cucumber Surprise, Covert Cucumbers,
Corporate Cucumbers and how to make your cucumber grow by speaking to it (the
last one was a considered a little too rude to corporately publish - booo!!!). To
accompany the article we decided to get the official photographer to photograph
cucumbers with ‘googly’ doll eyes so we could maintain surprise cucumber
expressions around the office. Of course we do very corporate articles too;
however, I am having two weeks off work from Friday to focus on finishing my
current book and felt the need for a little mischief prior to having a holiday.
That way any repercussions would have been complete by the time I leave.
The cucumber interview questions included
‘How did you discover your cucumber love?’
‘Do you talk to your cucumber to make it grow?’
‘What attracted you to cucumbers?’
‘If you were a cucumber what advice would you give?’
‘Of all the cucumbers you have grown, has one particular
cucumber jumped out at you?’
The thing is the blog has to be approved, so we will see
what happens.
So back to my original question – do you know when to stop?
This covers many topics? Exercise, food, health and book promotion.
In terms of exercise where do you have to reach to stop?
Today I crossed a paddleboard threshold: a line of yellow buoys mark my limits.
I usually stay within them but today I was blown beyond them. Once I had
experienced ‘unchartered’ paddle territory, I turned the board and paddled in.
I realised I had gone beyond my limit and had to stop and turn around. That
made me question when is the point when we know when to stop. So how ill do you
have to become before you actually stop and rest? I watch so many people at
work descend into complete flu and infect the whole office before they take the
day off. Their martyrdom should have stopped and saved others from the
infection.
What about food? If you were in front of a buffet when do
you decide when to stop? Do you have to feel ill? I worked on cruise ships for
years and watched gluttonous buffet bonanzas. People kept eating and eating and
certainly did not know when to stop! The attitude was: I have paid for it and I
want to get my money’s worth.
Finally, I have noticed that when it comes to product
promotion and book promotion, there is a finite time that things can be rammed
down an audience’s throat before the audience become blasé, bored or ignore a repetitious.
So the question for me is when do you stop? Tonight is my final night of
promoting The Hairy-Legged Mystery and Tingle Dingle and The Little Mischiefs.
The way I see it is you can do as much as you can to let the world know and
then those little literary lovelies have to fend for themselves. It is a case
of freeing the pigeon and letting it navigate its way home. In this case I
released two fun children’s stories into the world, let the world know and now
it is time to stop, move on and allow them to find their readers. Nice eh? It
is great to know when it is time to stop and start new.
Enjoy my books at the following link:
NEW RELEASE: TINGLE DINGLE AND THE LITTLE MISCHIEFS
NEW RELEASE: THE HAIRY-LEGGED MYSTERY
