Emily McDonald

Like it's never, oh, should I stop?

Should I?

never.

Like I've faced so many things and never once through my mind does it go, maybe I should just stop doing this.

Like never, because it's what I love and I know that it's making a positive impact on people.

And so why would I ever stop doing that?

Even though selfishly it doesn't feel good right now, I know that there's a greater reason for this.

But I think it also kind of

circles back to what I was mentioning earlier about the different types of passion, because there is that difference between harmonious passion and obsessive passion.

It's not just about love and fear.

It's also about your identity.

Whenever you are being driven by love, by joy, by impact, whatever it is, that harmonious passion is actually kind of described by it being a part of who you are, but it's not the entire kind of whole of who you are.

And that obsessive nature is when it becomes the entire sense of who you are, like your whole identity.

And I think that when you're driven by a goal that's bigger than you, then it's not all of who you are, right?

And like, I always hold this inner kind of knowing of I'm something a lot greater than, you know, just even this human body.

And now I'm able to be driven by, you know, and know that these goals that I have and this, you know, even this mission that I'm doing is just only a

fraction of who i really am and not the whole sense of who i am and as soon as it becomes this is my entire identity and it's entangled in my work right that's when it becomes very painful like honestly it becomes very painful and there because there starts to be a lot of pressure and then like you said your self-worth starts to come into play where your sense of worthiness

completely resides on performance.

Whereas if you have this, you know, innate kind of, you know, drive and, but also this innate sense of, you know, that you're something else, you're something bigger than just your goals or your work, then you can retain this sense of worthiness.

Like I know that if my content is completely flopping, like I'm still great.