Approaching Life’s Difficulties with a Positive Attitude

79 minutes
Written By Rabbi Simon Jacobson

How well do you deal with setbacks and disappointments? No one is immune to the curve balls life throws at us. Each of us will inevitably face difficult moments. Do these experiences overwhelm or demoralize you? Do they upset your balance and shake your inner confidence? Are there skills and methods that can help you deal with life's difficulties? Can you learn to develop a positive attitude even when faced with negative experiences? Life is a journey on a sea that can often become stormy. Like every voyage, it needs a captain, a steward, who steers the ship through the ups and downs, twists and turns, calm and storms. Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson in this essential training session, and learn how to navigate your life journey -- how to grow through hardships and come out stronger than ever.

Rabbi Simon Jacobson

Rabbi Simon Jacobson is the author of the best-selling book Toward a Meaningful Life, which has to date and has been translated into Hebrew, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, German, Hungarian, Polish, Czech and Georgian. Rabbi Jacobson heads The Meaningful Life Center, which bridges the secular and the spiritual, through a wide variety of live and on-line programming. The Meaningful Life Center presents to people of all backgrounds the universal teachings of Torah as a blueprint for life and has captured the hearts of thousands of participants over the last 40 years with their spiritual message and profound insights into the human condition.

For over 14 years Rabbi Jacobson, as Editor-in-Chief of Vaad Hanochos Hatmimim, was responsible for publishing the talks of the late Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Beginning in 1979, he headed a team of scholars that memorized and transcribed entire talks that the Rebbe. In this position, Rabbi Jacobson was privileged to work in close association with the Rebbe and published more than 1000 of the Rebbe’s talks.

Jacobson is one of the greatest scholars and sought after speakers in the Jewish world today. He has lectured to diverse audiences on six continents and in forty states on psycho-spiritual issues and applying Jewish thought to contemporary life. His voice is rooted in the timeless teachings of Torah, yet at the same time is profoundly timely, relevant, unique, and cutting edge.

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