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>>Erik: What has been the most difficult part of your journey to date?
>>Louise: I think the most difficult part of my personal journey is deciding where to
say no to the things that are always pulling on your work and impact. Which is just to
say, I think when you are committed to a cause like we are, to health education, you end
up opening yourself up to a lot of different demands on that cause. I think many if not
all of them are really legitimate. But to do one thing really well you have to just
do one thing or do as close to that one thing as possible. For us and for me, it has been
a challenge to just be really clear, focused, and disciplined about that one goal and not
get too distracted by the many other things that are totally legitimate that demand our
time and energy, my time and energy. Right now we are at that point where we can start
to imagine doing more than we have done in the past and it is a really exciting moment.
I think we have to stay very clear on what it is we are going to do and what it is we
are not going to do. It is always harder to say no than it is to say yes so I think that
is a constant challenge in this work.
>>Erik: How do you go through setting those priorities and following through with them?
>>Louise: We try to just be really clear in our mission and our work what we are trying
to achieve and we map every opportunity directly to that mission. If it does not have a direct
map, we don`t do it. We try to be really clear about that.