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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 1418: Learnings From The Camino (Final part): Slowing Down

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“Be still, and know that I am God!”

This is my last post on my learning from the Camino.  There are so many more that I could write, but we will let those show up when they are supposed to do so.  This final learning was the best of all for me. I needed it, so maybe that is why it was there to be found.

Something good happens when we slow down.  We see things we haven’t seen before, hear things that we normally wouldn’t and consider thoughts that are longer and more complex.  When we rush by life and all that is around us we not only miss important things, we also fail to connect with what is most important, and those are the people around us.  On the Camino de Santiago it is impossible to not find time of stillness, quiet and contemplation. Even on the days when the finish starts to look better than the journey, there is an ability to observe and converse in a way that we don’t in our everyday lives.  I talked. I watched. I listened.  I smelled.  I stopped.  If we slow down, just a bit, we will find that there is way more going on around us than we realize.  A pause or just a decrease of pace, for just a while, can open up new opportunities that are all around us but not obvious.  Slow it down for a bit and watch what happens.  The Camino teaches how good it can be.

“Be still and know that I am God” or  “Hey you, slow down and try a new way”. We can’t speed up God so why don’t we slow to His speed and see what it is like there?  We don’t because we either don’t trust or we don’t believe.  Today, we are going to be challenged in our work to speed up and solve problems and create ideas and plans. But, we also have some of those in front of us that we know we aren’t up to and don’t have the foggiest of ideas on how we will not only solve, but even survive.  This is God’s territory and time that we slow ourselves down to follow Him!  The way forward is always there, it is what we need to experience and know before we go that God has in His hands!

Reference:  Psalm 46:10 (New Living Translation)

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