Your first name of Mendes creates a serious, thoughtful nature, shrewd, efficient, and business-minded. By nature you are serious, thoughtful, and studious. Determined and positive in opinion, you resist taking direction and advice from others. A tendency to be candid, combined with your diligence to look after the rights of people, can cause others to think of you as being interfering and bossy, or lacking in tact and understanding. As you are staunch in friendship, you can be depended upon for guidance and assistance. Helping those in less fortunate circumstances is important to you. Your standards of quality and efficiency are high. You recognize the need, but feel a lack of fluency in verbal expression. A tendency to worry far too much over obligations and responsibilities could lead to a disturbed mental state. Your positive manner and outlook can make others feel that you are imposing your will on them and even interfering in their affairs.