Our new year blessings to you….our amazing friends. Thank you for supporting & believing in us in the last 3 years. We are absolutely thrilled to serve you in 2023. As the year starts, we love to share with you at some ‘look-backs’ and ‘look-forwards’:
by Joshua Devaratnam
In the Beginning…
The Courage Catalogue was an initiative started during the pandemic lockdown (early 2020) to ‘’encourage” you (our readers) who are probably going through tough seasons just like all of us at team The Courage Catalogue and some of you….even way tougher.
We produced over 30 articles, genres ranging from ‘overcoming loneliness and grief’to ‘how to be happy in an overly complicated world’. All our articles are reads between 2 – 7 minutes and serves as a motivator in times of global pain.
We also are a voice for the ordinary folk that have gone through extraordinary experiences. We share their stories with you so it inspires you to keep going no matter what circumstances you may be facing..
The Year that Was 2021…
As we were thrusting in and out of lockdowns, uncertainty was the label of the year and we sensed that anxiety was at bar high. We decided to add more articles and ‘personalize’ our efforts in “coming closer” to you, our beloved readers (and viewers).
First, we ran video podcasts that reiterated our article-based contents from 2020 and 2021. Secondly, we uploaded audios that had the original authors’ narration of their articles written. 10 such videos are available on YouTube and 13 audios are now available on Spotify.
You will be able to find it at: https://www.youtube.com/@couragetv2800 https://open.spotify.com/show/08xh41G5LQfOCYus312agI
Why videos and original audios you may ask. We wanted to be your God- inspired voice of certainty in this indecisive year. The observatory year of 2022….to serve you better
Last year, it felt like everything was going back to the way it was….almost everything. Tide turning confirmed the mysteries of a missing old tide…which was the old normal. It was not about coming out of the pandemic or apathy (although both are absolutely evidential) but…what is my preparation for the new future? 2022 was a year of “re-prioritizing” your reading & viewing needs. Like every healthy organization, we needed to unlearn the old and learn the new.
We needed to give up goal-setting ideals of the past. We also welcomed amazing new talents on team to improve our learning curve. As you may know all of us in this team are pro-bono contributors (which basically means,we are all self- funded individuals). This meant we had to say goodbye to some of the team members who are not able to sustain themselves in this form of work model. We cautiously added a couple more articles for this year, as to avoid any overlap of titles or genres.
The grand idea of 2022 is to give you a time to go through our archive and to see if you can reflect & thank God for making it out of the pandemic….some even better than before. As an organization, this is where we pivoted from being sensitive as a sub-secular editorial team to one that is boldly God-centric. So our future articles, will be full expressions of the Gospel.
2023: THE BIRTHING OF SOMETHING NEW
If you visit our website https://www.thecouragecatalogue.com/, our tagline reads “Speaking Truth in Love”. We have not changed this from day 1 as we firmly believe that we are not just motivated by love, but we truly are the embodiment of Christ’s version of love (Agape).With the new year, we are going to share with you on stepping into your next steps in this new decade.
First step is to help our readers & viewers understand their new potential callings through a series called “ARE YOU CALLED TO…”. A number of current careers & industries will be covered and these content will be produced with the multi- generations in mind.
A new nerve regardless of the age band.
With that we will look forward to continuing serving you as the gospel brand of boldness for 2023. Once again, a happy new year and many blessings from us at team The Courage Catalogue.
Have a great day!
Joshua Devaratnam
Founder
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