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.
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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Dear 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.
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Do 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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Why Life Matters
If you feel that your life doesn’t matter much, then all your life choices and relationships don’t matter that much either. If your life is negligible then everything you do is also negligible.
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How to Spiritually Charge Your Daily Routine
Spiritually charge up your daily quotidian, and turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Daily 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.
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Stress Response: What Men Can Learn from Women
Discover how to live a truly happy and meaningful life by using your divine gifts and wisdom to reach your highest potential.
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What It’s Like to Be Honest With Yourself
Learn tools how to uncover the shrouds that cloak the true you. Build up the courage to get to know your inner self in ways you never could have imagined.
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