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. Meredith Mickelson

Meredith Mickelson hates contradiction. Although she has vast reserves of mental and intellectual concentration, she sometimes tends to be dogmatic or absolutist. Her rigid mindset denotes a certain adaptive difficulty.

Meredith Mickelson reacts peremptorily to all opposition and will brook no contradiction. Her desires are sometimes imperious, and she expresses them impulsively, by fits and starts, which may elicit resentment and antagonism in her partners. Life will force her to set more universal goals and centers of interest for herself. It would be a good idea for her to release some excess internal tension through physical exercise.

Although Meredith Mickelson is talented in many ways, she can be prone to making careless decisions when it comes to her wealth and social status. She trusts her own abilities to make wise financial and investment choices, but she doesn’t always learn from the experiences of others. This can lead to wasted effort and potential setbacks.

As we suggested earlier, Meredith Mickelson is endowed with great sensitivity and has profound aspirations, especially romantic ones. Nevertheless, her spirit is sometimes too delicate for her to have armored and structured herself for the constraints of life out there in the real world. Moreover, she sees little point in devoting herself to fulfilling the demands of practical reality, which strike her as rather futile and empty. Her escapes into her fantasy world give her the illusion of a much greater reward. She tends to gloss over her vision of other people, and when they reveal their imperfections and incompetence, she feels guilty for them and suffers from her own vulnerability and illusions. She would do well to try to be more selective about the people she associates with; when she is moving in a dream world, she attracts the kind of dishonest people who are likely to take advantage of her.

To trust yourself better and gain self-assurance, the first thing you must do is learn to say no. Once you are capable of saying no to others, you can say yes to life. You must develop your awareness of all the good things in your life and all the changes you hope to make in order to enjoy life more. This is the foundation that will support you, the inexhaustible source and center of the transformation of your personality. Infantile anxieties which arose in childhood when you were helpless may be obstacles to your evolution. Sometimes they actually prevent you from daring to confront challenges you would be altogether capable of assuming now! One of the reasons you yield to these childhood fears so readily is that they procure a feeling so familiar to you that, although it is negative, it is a reassuring part of your identity. However, the more often you reinforce this complex by yielding to that feeling, the more unaware you become of your true emotional state. The irrational childhood fears have also reinforced your pessimistic tendencies. It is difficult for you to believe in the sunny side of life because of the pernicious little voice inside you that claims you don’t really deserve all this goodness. This side of you could undermine your vitality and force you to compensate or flee from reality. In doing so, you limit your power to bring about a positive change in yourself or your life. It’s a vicious cycle, and to free yourself, the first step is to free yourself from the fears which prevent you from taking full advantage of life. You can succeed if you arrange a relaxed, positive environment for yourself, establish sincere relations with one or two special people, and, if possible, find a setting – perhaps a yoga class – in which you can practice relaxation exercises.