Your first name of Penance gives you a friendly, congenial personality and causes you to desire activities involving people. Procrastination is a weakness of your nature, causing an inability always to complete your plans or to concentrate for long. Although you may dream of better things, you find it hard to maintain the drive to go after them. You find it difficult to take a definite stand, partly because you lack confidence, and also because you dislike any issues which create dissension between people. It is hard for you to face an issue directly and say “yes” or “no” and mean it, though you have a quickness of mind that enables you to respond with artful diplomacy to evade unpleasant situations. Your name incorporates a potential aptitude for concentration and patient, logical thought along detailed, practical lines but it restricts inspirational qualities and the ability to visualize new ideas and theories. This name brings the tendency to magnify small issues out of proportion or to become too involved in personality conflicts. You need to see a concept presented completely in detail before you can understand it, and if you cannot understand it, you come to your own conclusion and often fail to listen to and reason out another's point of view. While you do have many fine qualities, the tensions created by this name do not allow you to enjoy a full and complete life. You desire refinement, understanding, and appreciation, yet sometimes your outward attitude does not reveal your innermost feelings, and thus you have never felt truly understood.