Your Mission, Your Purpose
For 25 years, Rabbi Simon Jacobson has advised people of all backgrounds on how to find purpose. The free resources on this page will help you to write your own personal mission statement.
P.O.P.P. is the Meaningful Life Center’s proprietary method for revealing your personal mission statement. It stands for: Personality, Opportunities, People & Places — the four criteria you’ll consider when assessing who you are. Start with the first article on this page, then dive deeper.
Recognizing and Seizing Opportunities
In order to seize seize an opportunity, you first have to recognize it. While some of the opportunities given to you in life are obvious, others are hidden. What does it mean that an opportunity is hidden, and how can you find it?
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If You Want a Positive Life, Start With a Mission Statement
Theme: Personal Rebirth
The foundation of a life based on your positive values starts with a personal mission statement.
Finding Oneness In Diversity
We are all one: Together we comprise a single organism whose various cells, limbs, and organs complement and complete one another.
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Revealing Your Inner Light
Remember that you are here to refine this physical world, to elevate your specific corner of the world using the unique strengths given to you.
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Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?
The great gift of Torah is that it provides us with a Divine blueprint on how to live our lives. Your unique mission statement is embedded within you.
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Build Yourself an Ark: Riding the Waves of Uncertainty
Please join Rabbi Jacobson as he offers a 4125 year-old, time-tested formula for riding through the waves of uncertainty. Learn how to look at uncertainty in the face (without denial, retreat or fantasy) and not only not be overwhelmed, but come out stronger than ever.
The Kabbalah of Health
Physical fitness is not arbitrary or optional; it is part of your responsibility to yourself. On the other hand, worshipping the body is destructive. The body is a vehicle for the soul; its value lies there, not as an end unto itself.
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The Zodiac: Is My Life Predestined?
Are we pre-wired programmed machines, like the entire universe, governed by the deterministic laws of nature? Or do we humans have the ability to transcend the parameters of our defined structures?
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How to Make Your Actions Matter
If you can expand your world to include what you cannot explain or understand, you’re on the way to making your actions matter. How? Read on.
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