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: Ava Foley’s need to bluff, her inability to manage certain things, her instability, and her unwillingness to change certain opinions.

Ava Foley may experience discord in relationships. Although she is friendly and outgoing and commits herself to friendships and partnerships, she often finds it difficult to balance her own needs, desires, and goals with the objective reality of others and their individual desires and needs. To understand and overcome this problem, she 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 she succeeds in defining, through discussion and communication, what sort of intimate relationship she and her partners want to maintain and what accomplishment or purpose they hope to achieve, many conflicts will be avoided.

Ava Foley has a fairly individualistic temperament and is something of a loner. She is reluctant to commit herself to partnership. Her tendency to want to be the sole authority may put a painful crimp in relationships. When she is confronted directly, her reactions may be rather extreme. However, in crisis situations which require immediate and decisive action, she comes to the forefront, with her ability to mobilize all her energy quickly and effectively.