If you want to improve yourself, the first step is to become aware of the weaknesses which may be holding you back and preventing your evolution: your shallowness, your lack of sincerity, your indifference, your frivolity, your fear of commitment.

Ava Lentz often experiences a conflict between her desire for social and professional success and her need for a stable, secure domestic life. She is deeply committed to both ideas and does not always succeed in reconciling their schedules and demands on her. Sometimes it feels as though she will never be able to find a balance. However, no job promotion will really satisfy her if she has neglected her most intimate needs and desires. Although it sometimes seems easier to her to climb the rungs of the career ladder out there in the real world, if she merely sacrifices her domestic life, she is only trying to fool herself. She should accept the fact that her domestic life is the true basis and foundation of her development. All her career endeavors and success will be even more rewarding if they are supported by a safe, warm personal life.

Ava Lentz 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 Lentz often finds it difficult to stabilize her life and steer a steady course. She is proud of her intellectual abilities and even tends to overestimate them in a search for recognition and admiration. Yet, at other times, she might seem to scoff at other people’s opinions. At times, she tends to be overwrought and high-strung. She might want to schedule frequent rest periods for herself.