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.
Lech Lecho: 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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Should We Ever Take Extreme Measures?
Discover how to navigate your life knowing when to stay the course and when to veer sharply left or right.
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How One Inspiring Moment Can Change Your Life
Discover a new way to look at what you — and every person — can accomplish in a split second. How to see a world in a gain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
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Ordinary People Becoming Extraordinary
Discover how to look beyond the glitz and glitter — beyond the modern forces which, deliberately or inadvertently, blind us — and see the extraordinary within the ordinary, the unusual within the usual, the miraculous within the natural.
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How to Create a Bright Future Unhaunted by the Past
Learn how to unclog blocks that imprison your psyche — and release the enormous energy within, allowing you to build a bright new future, with beautiful new possibilities, unhaunted by the ghosts of yesterday.
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Leave Your Past Behind
How can you leave your past behind? You must have a vision for the future. Without a vision for the future, you will gravitate toward the things that controlled you in the past.
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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.
Do You Have a Personal Mission Statement? Learning How to Develop Your Calling in Life
Rabbi Simon Jacobson, April 2018, Washington, DC
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Restoring Faith In Humanity
Learn how to look deeper inside yourself and others and discover tools to elicit nobility of the highest order. And in turn, restore confidence in the human race.
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How to Be a Radical Warrior for Goodness & Kindness
Instead of being part of the problem, become part of the solution; become a pioneer — a radical warrior for goodness and kindness.
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