If you really want to improve and transform yourself, the first step is to become aware of the weaknesses which may be holding you back and preventing your evolution. Overcoming these weaknesses will allow you to grow and develop into the best version of yourself.

Barak Shamir may experience discord in relationships. Although he is friendly and outgoing and commits himself to friendships and partnerships, he often finds it difficult to balance his own needs, desires, and goals with the objective reality of others and their individual desires and needs. To understand and overcome this problem, he should accept the idea that every relationship follows more or less the same general scheme: a base of intimacy and an accomplishment or purpose apart from the relationship itself. If he succeeds in defining, through discussion and communication, what sort of intimate relationship he and his partners want to maintain and what accomplishment or purpose they hope to achieve, many conflicts will be avoided.

You sometimes struggle with the conflict between your desire for social and professional success and your need for a stable, secure domestic life. You are deeply committed to both ideas and don’t always succeed in reconciling their schedules and demands on you. Sometimes it feels as though you will never be able to find a balance. However, no promotion will really satisfy you if you have neglected your most intimate needs and desires. Although it sometimes seems easier to you to climb the career ladder out there in the real world, if you merely sacrifice your domestic life, you are only trying to fool yourself. You should accept the fact that your domestic life is the true basis and foundation of your development. All your career endeavors and success will be even more rewarding if they are supported by a safe, warm personal life.

As a result, because of your ambitious nature, you are fairly organized. You are able to work long and hard to achieve your goals, and you elaborates fairly rigid strategies to protect yourself against any foreseeable obstacles. You are so absorbed in your business that you do not always realize that you tend to be somewhat peremptory with the people around you and that you might do well to soften your tone and be more tactful at times. Your friendships seem stifling and superfluous to you, and you are sometimes tormented by inner conflict when you are forced to submit to another’s will. To succeed, work to be less dogmatic. Trust in yourself and other people, and be flexible.

Barak Shamir is fairly independent and individualistic, so it is easy for him to detach himself from prevailing intellectual trends and pursue his activities independently. He may tend to be too self-focused. However, he is likely to encounter situations in life which require that he adapt to new and unfamiliar circumstances by changing his system of values. If he clings to a narrow vision of the truth, certain relationship experiences may shatter it, leaving him with a feeling of loss and disorientation until he recovers. The best cure would be putting his determination into changing his life and concentrating on new goals.