If Pop Smoke really wants to improve and transform himself, the first step is to become aware of the weaknesses which may be holding him back and preventing his evolution:
– his continual need for security
– his tendency to escape into fantasy
– his hunger for approval
– his longing for the past
– his fear of the future
– his investment systems

You may experience discord in relationships. Although Pop Smoke is friendly and outgoing and commits himself to friendships and partnerships, Pop Smoke 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, Pop Smoke 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 Pop Smoke succeeds in defining, through discussion and communication, what sort of intimate relationship Pop Smoke and his partners want to maintain and what accomplishment or purpose they hope to achieve, many conflicts will be avoided.

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

Pop Smoke has a variety of talents, but it is sometimes difficult for Pop Smoke to concentrate on a single center of interest. Ruled by Pop Smoke’s nervousness and suggestibility, Pop Smoke might struggle to use Pop Smoke’s adaptive abilities to Pop Smoke’s full advantage and does not always take the time to formulate the solutions to Pop Smoke’s problems. To be truly effective, it is imperative for Pop Smoke to learn to control Pop Smoke’s jittery mind; otherwise, Pop Smoke may drain Pop Smoke’s nervous system of energy. If Pop Smoke encounters respiratory problems, like asthma (due to nerves), it will be a signal that the need to change is urgent.

Because of Pop Smoke’s tendency to be self-focused at times, they may encounter conflict in relationships. Their certainty that they are bound to succeed, combined with impulsiveness, make them want to take charge of everything. This aggressiveness and lack of cooperation could arouse resentment in others. They would do well to meditate on the concepts of authority and individualism.

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

In Pop Smoke’s efforts to accumulate wealth and social power, he sometimes betrays a lack of toleration for other people’s belief systems and values. Although he trusts his own talent for business, finance, and investments thoroughly, he should be aware that he is liable to make some errors in judgment. Because he identifies so strongly with his own individual habits and work routines and isn’t as keen to learn from others, he may waste his energy at times.

Pop Smoke loathes contradiction. Although Pop Smoke has vast reserves of mental and intellectual concentration, Pop Smoke sometimes tends to be dogmatic or absolutist. Pop Smoke’s rigid mindset denotes a certain adaptive difficulty.

As we suggested earlier, Pop Smoke is endowed with great sensitivity and has profound aspirations, especially romantic ones. Nevertheless, their spirit is sometimes too delicate for them to have armored and structured themselves for the constraints of life out there in the real world. Moreover, they see little point in devoting themselves to fulfilling the demands of practical reality, which strike them as rather futile and empty. Their escapes into their fantasy world give them the illusion of a much greater reward. They tend to gloss over their vision of other people, and when they reveal their imperfections and incompetence, they feel guilty for them and suffer from their own vulnerability and illusions. They would do well to try to be more selective about the people they associate with; when they are moving in a dream world, they attract the kind of dishonest people who are likely to take advantage of them.

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