Your first name of Merced has made you a friendly, approachable, and generous person. These qualities reduce your success in anything requiring organization and attention to detail. You could experience a desire to sing or to find some other creative outlet, perhaps in playing a musical instrument or in acting. You would not hesitate, however, to help a friend in need, despite your personal financial circumstances at the time. In your work, you find it difficult to be neat and orderly. You are very firm and positive in your ideas and decisions, yet you often require encouragement and incentives to finish what you start. Since you are a very active person, you desire quick energy foods, particularly sugars. You enjoy freedom from monotony and are stimulated by unexpected opportunities for meeting people, entertaining, or pursuing activities of a carefree nature. Emotion and feeling, the desire to be carefree, friendly, and happy, are the driving forces in your being, rather than shrewdness, ambition, and material success. Nervous tension can centre in the head.