Author Archives: Rusty Rueff

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 2163: The Anxiety of New Goals

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“Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.”

The New Year and the new quarter can be exciting because in front of us sit the goals and objectives we have been given to achieve and hopefully exceed.  But, goals and objectives can be like New Year’s Resolutions in that they are exciting for the first week and then after that the newness begins to fade and what was exciting can begin to look burdensome.  Will I be able to get all of this done?  What if I fall behind?  How much margin for error, the unknown, even sickness have I left myself?  Have I over committed again?  These are all questions of doubt that can creep into our minds and then begin to weigh us down.  Goals can be achieved, if we are willing to break them down, measure our efforts and track our progress.  Once we begin to do that, we will find that the anxiety of new goals can be put behind us.

When I bring my anxieties and loads of worries to God, I can sometimes hear Him say back to me, “How come it’s taken you so long to give me those?”  That is what His Word promises us.  So, whatever the worry, whatever the anxiety, even the concerns about whether or not we can achieve what work we have been given this year, He is ready, willing and waiting to take them from us.

Reference: 1 Peter 5:7 (New Living Translation)