If you want to improve your life, the first step is to become aware of your weaknesses and how they’re holding you back from growth. You need to be conscious of the things that are preventing you from progressing and thriving in life.
For example, you may have a need for security that’s holding you back from developing your skills or moving forward in your career. You may also have a tendency to escape into fantasy, which can keep you from facing your fears. You may also have a hunger for approval that’s preventing you from being your true self. You may also be longing for the past and fearing the future. Finally, you may be stuck in a cycle of repeating old patterns because you don’t have a solid foundation in your life. To improve, you need to find ways to overcome these weaknesses.

Bess Katramados 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 kind of intimate relationship she and her partners want to maintain and what accomplishment or purpose they hope to achieve, many conflicts will be avoided.

Because of her tendency to be self-focused at times, Bess Katramados may encounter conflict in relationships. Her certainty that she is bound to succeed, combined with impulsiveness, make her want to take charge of everything. This aggressiveness and lack of cooperation could arouse resentment in others. She would do well to meditate on the concepts of authority and individualism.

Bess Katramados 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.