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Advisor gets stuck

Advisor avoids risk

Advisor fears change

Advisor procrastinates

Advisor refuses to adapt

Advisor lives vicariously

Advisor wanders aimlessly

Advisor fixates on the past

Advisor forgoes opportunity

Advisor waits for the future

Advisor goes against the flow

Advisor forgets to take action

Advisor falls into an old habit

Advisor becomes lost in a dream

Advisor abandons an opportunity

Advisor plays the role of victim

Advisor takes a circuitous route

Advisor avoids high expectations

Advisor fails to overcome inertia

Advisor misses a rare opportunity

Advisor complicates a simple task

Advisor enjoys telling a sob story

Advisor laments the passage of time

Advisor pursues an impossible dream

Advisor refuses to admit the obvious

Advisor creates artificial boundaries

Advisor fails to perceive opportunity

Advisor sees two sides to everything

Advisor blames others for a bad habit

Advisor clings to a comforting delusion

Advisor proceeds with excessive caution

Advisor struggles to fix a trivial defect

Advisor fantasizes about a former lover

Advisor struggles to preserve a tradition

Advisor romanticizes a time from the past

Experiencing failure, Advisor feels jinxed

Advisor is obsessed with getting revenge

Advisor tries to understand the unknowable

Advisor experiences a period of debauchery

Advisor indulges an overactive imagination

Advisor refuses to shed an obsolete persona

Advisor falls in love with a self-conception

Advisor tries to prove something to others

Advisor is troubled by debilitating thoughts

Advisor can't stop thinking about object (X)

Achieving success, Advisor becomes complacent

Advisor wastes energy compensating for a phobia

Advisor is unable to make an important decision

Advisor squanders the opportunity of a lifetime

Advisor finds reasons to put off the inevitable

Advisor struggles to correct an imaginary defect

Advisor is content with the way things are going

Advisor spends a lot of time thinking about life

Lacking privacy, Advisor is unable to concentrate

Advisor suffers the symptoms of a serious illness

Afraid of change, Advisor continues a boring routine

Advisor gets involved in a task that seems endless

Advisor struggles to return to a former way of life

Advisor longs to be somewhere entirely different

Advisor continues a routine but has forgotten its purpose

Advisor focuses on a small detail concerning object (X)

Advisor seeks more information before making a commitment

Advisor feels guilt for something that happened a long time ago

Advisor struggles with the final detail of a complicated project

Advisor makes excuses for having a particular personal trait

Advisor refuses to settle for anything less than perfection

Imagining how others will react, Advisor decides not to change

Just as things take a turn for the better, Advisor has a setback

Advisor takes a difficult path even though there’s an easier route

Advisor decides certain objectives must be put off until later

Advisor falls asleep hoping things will be different in the morning

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