Part 1: From Publishing to Polishing

Monday, 2nd March 2026 – the day I cleaned my already clean new home instead of publishing the most important piece of marketing and business content I have ever created in over three decades of my working career.

Let me paint the picture of what I personally experienced today.

Just over one month ago, I moved into my new home. This is my first established, fixed home for almost four years. Over the previous four years, I lived for two years in a caravan and then spent almost two years staying in various locations by God’s grace.

Within the first few weeks of moving in, I furnished every room in the house. For over two weeks now, I have been fully living in and inhabiting this new home. It is pristine. It is clean. It is a space I am honouring and stewarding in a way I have not done before, having previously relied, first on my mum and then on my wife, to take the lead in housekeeping.

That is the environment I live in - an environment I am incredibly blessed with.

Professionally, in the last ten days, I received inspiration and revelation to launch a new podcast titled The Inner World of Leaders, where I will host video conversations with executives, entrepreneurs, C-suite leaders, investors and high-responsibility individuals. We will explore their inner world - topics rarely spoken about publicly or in boardrooms.

Just over a week ago, having started what I intended to be a 12-part series of interconnected stories about my inner world before experiencing life collapse in 2019 at age 41, I was two or three messages into the process when I sustained a sudden, excruciating injury during my second week of playing badminton in my new town.

This stopped me completely. I could hardly walk. I could not drive. I could not do what I had planned for the following day - jet washing my car and working on my front and back garden to bring them into alignment with the environment inside my home. All I could do was put my feet up with a bag of frozen peas under my left calf while healing began.

Because I was unable to do those physical tasks, I was led to focus specifically on the 12 messages. As I continued speaking and capturing those stories, I received further inspiration to bring them together into a new book titled A CEO’s Inner World Before Life Collapse.

Over the course of three days, culminating on Sunday, 1st March 2026, the 135 page book was created and completed.

This is the most significant piece of professional content I have ever created. It connects my childhood years, teenage years, and over 30 years in the business world. It brings together my life before collapse, my coming to faith, and the current professional work I now provide through 1-1 executive advisory and the podcast.

At around 1:00am on Monday, 2nd March 2026, the book was completely finished. The PDF was finalised and optimised. It was done.

I truly believed that today would be the day I published it - the most important piece of marketing content I have ever created, though it is far deeper than marketing. It is not about selling a service or product. It is about sharing stories that allow others to say, “This is what I’m going through. This is what I’m experiencing. Someone else has walked this path.”

My plan today was to publish the book via Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing and create a landing page on my personal website to make it publicly available.

Yet earlier this afternoon, before I began that work, Jesus asked me to do what I had intended to do around 5 days earlier before my injury: conduct a weekly clean of my already clean home.

Instead of moving ahead to publish and promote my new book, I was asked to polish and clean my home.

I am sharing this as the first of what I believe will be a series, because this is not about cleaning an already clean home. This is about divine order. It is about sequence. It is about doing things from a place of rest, stability and integration.

For me personally, this is significant. In recent days, I could have cleaned my home as part of routine. But what had begun to creep in was a subtle return to an old pattern - focusing on outward activity, outward visibility and outward impact, while allowing attention to my environment to slip - even slightly.

Jesus brought me back.

Today, what was more important was polishing rather than publishing.

I do not know when the book will be published on Amazon and made publicly available. Will it be tomorrow? I do not know - and I am smiling as I say that. Everything will happen in God’s perfect time.

What I do know is this: as I sit here this evening, I have experienced significant inner change today.

The day I thought I would be announcing and launching the most important book of my career at age 48 became the day I cleaned my already clean home in obedience. What began as discipline became genuinely enjoyable because of what it signified.

And so this evening, I am resting in my even cleaner home, with my new book waiting on my MacBook - ready to be published on a future day.