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.
How to Stop Hitting the Snooze Button
We need healthy excitement and purpose in life. Without it, we can’t defeat the snooze bar.
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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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Coping With Illness and Difficult Challenges: How to Maintain a Positive Attitude
Life happens – discover cognitive and emotional skills to successfully deal with any given challenge.
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Why 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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Yes, You Really Actually Matter
Your worth is something that nobody can take away from you, because nobody gave it to you.
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Finding 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.
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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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Going from Survival Mode to Living Consciously
Topic: Intuition
The trick to living consciously is to have an oasis in time to focus on your inner life, so that you can go back to your outer life with recharged batteries.
An 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 Journey Begins
Creating a mission statement is vital to achieving your purpose. To find it one must look at their personality, opportunities, people, and places.
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