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 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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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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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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How to Feel That You Matter
When you know your personal mission statement, you can always return to it.
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Two Compelling Reasons to Find a Hobby
Hobbies can profoundly improve your productivity in all areas of life.
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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.
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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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You Have Permission to Be Yourself
When you are not yourself, you are robbing the world of what you were meant to contribute to it.
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