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About Rusty Rueff

Rusty Rueff, author of purposed worKING. Rusty Rueff is the former Chairman Emeritus of The GRAMMY Foundation in Los Angeles. He most recently completed the successful 16 month leadership role as Coordinating National Co-Chair for Technology for Obama (T4O) for the reelection of President Obama and ten-years of Board service and President of the Board of Trustees of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Corporately, most recently Rueff was the Chief Executive Officer at SNOCAP, Inc. until the acquisition of the company by imeem, Inc. in April 2008. Before joining SNOCAP in 2005, he was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Electronic Arts (EA) from 1998 until 2005. He was also with the PepsiCo companies for more than ten years, with the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies for two years, and in commercial radio as an on-air personality for six years. Rusty holds an M.S. in counseling and a B.A. in radio and television from Purdue University. In 2003 he was named a distinguished Purdue alumnus, and he and his wife, Patti, are the named benefactors of Purdue’s Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts. He is a corporate director of Glassdoor.com and runcoach. He is the co-founder and Executive Committee Member of T4A.org, serves on the Founding Circle of The Centrist Project and a founding Board Member of The GRAMMY Music Education Coalition. He is also the co-author of the book Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business. Rusty and his wife, Patti, reside in Hillsborough, CA and Charlestown, R.I.

day 2231: Summer Break

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 “So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.”

It’s almost summer, isn’t it?  Technically, Summer doesn’t begin until next month, but since here in the U.S. we have crossed Memorial Day, it’s time to start thinking about what are our summer plans going to be?  Yes, it’s time for road trips, vacations, beach time, and long weekends.  It’s also time for those who have been burnt out all year long to get their well-deserved R&R.  But, will we really let those around us (and will we ourselves) take a real vacation?  A real vacation means to “vacate” our work, if even for a few days.  We are in a never-ending, always on and always accessible world.  Or as I once heard it, A.O.R.T.A – -Always On Real Time Access.  However, we know, whether we admit it or not, that this is not sustainable forever.  We all need downtime and the best way we can get our own downtime is to respect the vacation time of others.  If we don’t send others emails while they are on vacation, then they won’t feel the need to check their emails or peek at their phones over dinner. It’s an easy change really…we just make vacation what it once was…vacation time, not part time work time.

God knows us so well.  He knows that we tire and as such He gives us encouragements and promises to keep us going and to not let our weariness get in the way of the work we are doing for Him. I also believe that God wants to keep us fresh because He has seen how we slip and fall when we allow ourselves to become exhausted. Let’s hold to God’s promise that we should never tire of doing good because what He has stored up for us to gather will be special.

Reference: Galatians 6:9 (New Living Translation)