If you want to improve, first be aware of the things that hold you back. That includes your defensive attitudes, your fear of being dispossessed, your ambivalence, and your over-reliance on your instincts.

Alex Johnston 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 kind of intimate relationship he and his partners want to maintain and what accomplishment or purpose they hope to achieve, many conflicts will be avoided.

As a result of your great ambition, Alex Johnston is fairly organized. He is able to work long and hard to achieve his goals and elaborates fairly rigid strategies to protect himself against any foreseeable obstacles. He is so absorbed in his business that he does not always realize that he tends to be somewhat peremptory with the people around him and that he might do well to soften his tone and be more tactful at times. His friendships seem stifling and superfluous to him, and he is sometimes tormented by inner conflict when he is forced to submit to another’s will. To succeed, Alex Johnston must trust in himself and other people and flexibility.

Alex Johnston has deeply anchored emotional needs. Invariably, he tries to revive these sensations from his personal history, clinging to the security provided by the repetition of a feeling which produced a positive effect in the past. His desire for possession (tangible or emotional) could become a problem, because he may fixate on an object which is negative or bad for him. He will do well to make a conscious effort to overcome this unconscious negative conditioning which may be related to his childhood.

Alex Johnston’s energy is vast and very productive. She knows how to persevere and meet challenges, delays, and obstacles with determination and obstinacy, without altering her goals. She is fairly reluctant to change course as a result of outside intervention, preferring to bulldoze her way past any obstacles, slowly but steadily, rather than go around them. Sometimes her will is so powerful that she refuses to make any compromises or concessions, which may be a source of conflict with others. She might want to work on sharing her power or authority, which would allow her to accomplish more.