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On January 30, 2010, Kimberly Wiefling, Global Business Leadership Consultant gave a seminar on "Creating a Vision for Your Future" in Redwood City, CA.

Wiefling discussed the brain and how the brain is not alert or aware of everything at once. There is the example of people who buy a new car and suddenly see everyone else driving the same car. The brain notices when something is important to someone. The brain filters things that are aligned with a dream. For example, when unemployed, be specific on the job sought in order for others to assist. People assist when they recognize patterns. If someone says he is looking for any job then that person will have a harder time finding a job rather than someone focused on a particular field.

It takes a longer time to find success when the brain spends too much time paying attention to the meaningless. This means when depressed about finances, spend less time reading other people's FaceBook pages and getting jealous of their families, friends, vacations, jobs. There is no need to compare with others because it is unknown the suffering others have gone through in order to achieve their goals, and it is unknown how the materials they exhibit on the outside actually affect their joy on the inside.

Wiefling's presentation pointed out that Shelly Taylor of UCLA and Jonathan Brown of SMU reported in Brain/Mind Bulletin in August 1988 that people who score high on mental health have the following illusions:

• Overly positive views of themselves
• Convenient "forgetting" of negative facts about themselves
• Illusory beliefs about having more control than they do have
• "Unrealistic" optimism about themselves
• "Unrealistic" optimism about the future in general
• "Abnormal" cheerfulness