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.
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.
Read MoreAn Exercise to Find Out Who You Are
Topic: Who You Are When No One Is Looking; How to Figure Out Who You Are
Your answers to the nine questions in this exercise should help you find out who you are and what your purpose in life is.
The Birth of Projection
Only through prayer and through our connection to the past do we have the power to overcome the challenges of the present. When you are stuck in a pit overwhelmed by difficulties, you cannot solve the problem alone.
Read MoreRecognizing 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?
Read MoreDaily Affirmation: I know what I need. But do I know what I am needed for?
Wherever you go and whatever you do, find ways to use your strengths, particularly to help other people. The daily affirmation, “I know what I need, but do I know what I am needed for?” will remind you to do so.
Read MoreHow 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.
Read MorePossibilities
In Eikev, this week’s Torah portion, we begin to deal with one of life’s biggest questions: “What am I truly capable of achieving”…
Read MoreFinding Your True Passion In Life
How can you find your passion in life? You need only look inside yourself: You already have it; you only have access to it. Your very soul is a passionate ball of fire — a burning flame waiting to be released.
Read MoreSeven Steps Toward A Life Without Apathy
Learn how to preempt the indifference and complacency that sometimes sets in to your life.
Read MoreWhy You Need a Personal Mission Statement
No business can function without a mission statement? Can you? A mission describes the reason an entity — an organization or a person — exists. It lets everyone know what the entity stands for and where it’s headed.
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