Ep. 269 Huge Changes, and All the Reasons We’re Doing It

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Shows Main Idea – To change is one of the challenges, privileges, and opportunities for every Christian. We are unique that way: we can change for God’s fame, our good, and the benefit of others. An unchanging believer is problematic. With the Spirit’s discernment, the Word’s guidance, and a few friends “spurring you on,” there is room to grow. This concept applies to the individual, a marriage, a family, a church, an organization, and a business. Are you changing for the right reasons? We have just made a significant one.

Show Notes

You may want to read:

• The Best Reason to Change Is So You Can Reach and Help More People
• Learn How This Ministry Benefits You and Your Family
• The Miraculous Twists and Turns That Led to This Ministry
• Our Twelve-Year Anniversary Ministry Update

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1. I recently announced that I have cut back on my article writing and Your Daily Drive podcast production. This change is effective immediately. For the past five years, I wrote three articles per week, with a podcast for each one. This change is because our user demographic has shifted from long-form article content to listening to podcasts and watching videos. There are other reasons, too. Our community’s increasing needs require me to devote more time to thinking/reflecting on how to help them more effectively. The writing process does not permit me to think.
2. We have a solid base of articles, with audio for each one.
3. Writing one per week will release me to do other things while adding to our article archive indefinitely.
4. Our community needs more dialogue engagement, which is our forums. Articles, podcasts, videos, graphics, and social media platforms are monologue, unidirectional. I need to engage our people more often.
5. We’re adding a more expensive but robust forum plugin to give our community a user-friendly and intuitive experience.
6. Video production is the last leg on our three-legged resource offering—articles, podcasts, videos, and I must devote time to it.
7. I need to devote more time to our Mastermind Students.
8. We’re in the process of building ten modular topical studies, with a goal of one-hundred.
9. Speaking events and book writing needs my attention.
10. We have 12 other team members, and I need to devote more time caring for them.
11. I will focus more on our Life Over Coffee network, which takes less time, and gives us more flexibility in resource offerings, i.e., evergreen content, case study topics, interviews, and time-dated material.
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Rick Thomas

Rick launched the Life Over Coffee global training network in 2008 to bring hope and help for you and others by creating resources that spark conversations for transformation. His primary responsibilities are resource creation and leadership development, which he does through speaking, writing, podcasting, and educating.

In 1990 he earned a BA in Theology and, in 1991, a BS in Education. In 1993, he received his ordination into Christian ministry, and in 2000 he graduated with an MA in Counseling from The Master’s University. In 2006 he was recognized as a Fellow of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC).