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.
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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The Difference Between the Means and the End
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a quick, clear lesson on the difference between the means and the end.
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Unclutter Your Soul: Things to Get Out of Your Life
Discover how to free up the clutter in your life, to make room for the things that will allow you to be the best you can be.
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You Have No Right Not to Like Yourself
You might not feel like you like yourself, but it’s not up to you (or any other person) to decide whether or not you’re worth liking.
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