Quitters Day or Purpose Day? Designing a Year You Don’t Walk Away From

If you want this to be the most purposeful year of your life, you can’t drift into it — you have to design it.

In this episode of The Impossible Life Podcast, Garrett and Nick break down how to actually build a year rooted in purpose, clarity, and God-given direction.

Using the Purpose Playbook framework, they explain why so many people lose sight of purpose, fall into distractions, and quit on their goals by the second Friday of January which is known as “Quitters Day.” More importantly, they show you how to avoid it and turn your year into a mission, not a mess of side quests.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

1. Why Most People Never Live Purposefully

• Side quests consume their time
• Their why isn’t strong enough
• They set goals based on emotion, not calling
• They rely on motivation instead of mission

2. What Purpose Really Is Your purpose is where:

• What’s in your heart meets
• What God has put in your hand

Purpose isn’t something you discover once, it’s something you align your life to daily.

3. Vision: The World You Wish to Create. They explain how vision comes from seeing the mind of God in the presence of God.
You need vision for all 8 domains of life:

• Spiritual
• Marriage
• Family
• Friendships
• Health
• Finances
• Business
• Rest

4. Priorities: What You’re Least Willing to Fail At. Nick walks through how to think about your time, energy, and resources based on seasons of life — and how priorities anchor you in discipline instead of distraction.

5. Rules for Growth Real growth isn’t magical or instant. It’s measurable.

• How to track and evaluate your progress
• Why consistency beats intensity
• Why clarity removes overwhelm

6. Setting Goals the Right Way

• Stop setting goals based only on outcomes
• Start setting process-based goals
• Let your goals flow from:
  • Vision
  • Purpose
  • Priorities
  • Core Values

Your core values serve as the safety check — if a goal violates a value, it’s not from God.

7. Time Management for Purpose Nick breaks down how to structure your:

• Daily actions
• Weekly rhythms
• Monthly alignments

…so that the main thing stays the main thing. This episode is packed and it will have you thinking about your next 12 months entirely different.

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