I wrote in a previous article Be Natural and You Will Win Effortlessly that it's important to learn how to be natural, not just normal.

Being normal prevents you from losing in society, while being natural allows you to win in life.

The biggest difference between the two is that "normal" people compete while "natural" people create.

For instance, if you're a normal person who just graduated from university, then the normal thing to do is to compete for the best jobs offered by employers.

This is fine and dandy. After all, we have bills to pay and we also need money to buy nice things for ourselves.

But there comes a time in a person's evolution when normal is no longer good enough. We seek to become more in tune with ourselves, with who we truly are and who we want to become.

We truly are creators of our life experiences and thus, it is fair to say that we ultimately create the person we will become.

But this self-creation process must be based on an activity that feels "natural" to us.

I'm basically a writer, so I tend to leverage that talent as much as possible in order to build my career or business.

I don't feel quite as comfortable if I have to manage people or coordinate an event or deliver a workshop (although speaking in front of a group is something I enjoy more and more, as it provides me with feedback which fuels my writing career).

In other words, if you give me a blank sheet of paper, I can create prolifically using my imagination and literary skills.

But if you give me a project to manage, I would forget about it 30 minutes later. I would say something like, "What? What project? What are you talking about? By the way, would you have blank sheets of paper, I need to write something."

Other people are speakers, or healers, or analyzers, or leaders. They feel at ease when they speak, or heal others, or analyze complex issues, or lead a group of people toward the achievement of a common goal.

So our challenge is to find the one activity that feels natural to us.

The rewards for finding one's natural talent are many and quite exciting: you no longer feel that work is work anymore. It feels more like playing!

You feel like you're becoming a kid once more, and life becomes a game that you enjoy! You feel you're growing as a person while having as much fun as is legally allowed!

And you become incredibly productive at what you do.

Yet another benefit is that your rate of learning shoots through the roof, since you naturally focus on improving your performance all the time.

As a result, you naturally become the best in your field. Of course, the best get paid the best salary and attract the biggest clients.

Concretely speaking, if you're in a job that feel stressful to you, or where you feel pressured to perform, chances are that you are not in the right line of work.

Remember that normal people often feel pressure at work, while natural people feel what they call the "flow" -- a sense of well-being which comes from immersing oneself completely in the task at hand, and losing the notion of time passing.

Now if you're currently in a stressful job and you've held that job for five years, it doesn't mean that you've wasted five years of your life. Quite the contrary, you are in that job because you wanted to learn something. You wanted to experience something that would clarify your understanding of who you are and what you seek in life.

Ultimately, we all want to do something that is aligned with our natural self because only then can we find peace and prosperity and even be in a position to inspire others.

But first, we have to make sure we clearly understand the difference between "normal" and "natural."

It's likely that most of your friends and family are "normal" people. A few people will be "natural" people. They tend to be people who always do things their own way, like as if they didn't care what other people thought.

The key is to learn from such "natural" people. As you think and speak and act like they do, you will increase your chances of finding your own natural talent.

Related articles & useful links

• Be Natural and You Will Win Effortlessly
• The End of Your Career
• Your Ideal Career is About Your True Self

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