by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Feb 7, 2022 | Marriage, MBTI Certified, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Wellness, Work / Career
This podcast was a lot of fun to record! Rabbi B. goes deep inside the Enneagram – what it means, how it works, how to use it to better understand yourself, and how to “defy” the negative aspects of your nature. From there, we segue into my use of...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jan 31, 2022 | MBTI Certified, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Wellness
Rabbi B. and I discuss our favorite – perhaps most preferred – assessments for understanding personality and individual differences, and quickly dive into the dark side of assessment from a logotherapeutic perspective – the danger of reducing a...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jan 24, 2022 | Anxiety, Depression, Meaning, Mental Health
After taking a break through the holidays, Rabbi B. returns to discuss plans for continued podcasting and some possible other ideas for 2022. Of course, we also find ourselves waxing philosophic on Frankl, Logotherapy, and Meaning. We’ve heard some good feedback...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jan 17, 2022 | Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Podcast, Relationships
We live in a world that is often trying to sell us happiness. But, as Viktor Frankl writes, we cannot pursue happiness, but it must ensue from meaning based activities. Here is a list of sources of meaning based happiness from a recent group I conducted. The Meaning...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jan 10, 2022 | Management, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health, Parenting, Personal Growth, Relationships, Spirituality, Work / Career
A new year is often cause for resolutions and goal-setting. But instead, for this year, I am recommending choosing “words to live by”. As promised in a Monday Morning Update a few weeks ago, here is a discussion on the words I am choosing for 2022 –...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jan 3, 2022 | Anxiety, Depression, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth
Three days in to a new year – what have you done with it so far? What do you plan to do with the next 360+ days? What is going to stop you from achieving those goals? I’ll answer that for you – perfectionism, lack of discipline, lack of...