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.
Does Religion Demand Conformity?
Lessons on community and individuality; how to be a unique member in a synergetic society
Read MoreYou Have No Right Not to Like Yourself
Theme: Know Your Worth
You might not feel like you like yourself, but it’s not up to you (or any other person) to decide whether or not you’re worth liking.
Help! I’m Drowning
Join Rabbi Jacobson and discover how to engage in life while remaining afloat and above the fray; how to transcend the stormy seas while also riding them to unprecedented heights.
Read MoreYour Thoughts CAN Create Your Reality
Join Rabbi Jacobson for this important pre-Rosh Hashana talk and discover new vistas of your soul, that when tapped, go beyond the usual cause and effect forces of life. Learn how your mind and mindset have the strength to change the course of your future.
Read MoreRabbi Simon Jacobson in Conversation with TikTok Exec, Michal Oshman: Bridging Faith and Modernity
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson and TikTok Exec Michal Oshman for a fascinating discussion on the transformative and transcendent power of Jewish wisdom and spirituality.
Read MoreBuild 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.
Read MoreThe 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?
Read MoreDear Inner Child: Where Are You?
Where did our inner child go? How can we access her? That child – the holiest part of your heart and soul – represents your greatest potential and your chance to soar through the sublime.
Read MoreDo I Matter
Discover that by virtue of your very birth you are absolutely indispensable and irreplaceable. And everything you do matters now and forever. Change the way you see yourself.
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