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. These weaknesses could be things like your dependency on other people, your uncertainty, or your sentimentalism.

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

Brett Cooper has a tendency to be self-focused and to encounter conflict in relationships. His certainty that he is bound to succeed, combined with impulsiveness, makes him want to take charge of everything. This aggressiveness and lack of cooperation could arouse resentment in others. Brett would do well to meditate on the concepts of authority and individualism.