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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 3K187: Earlier and Earlier

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“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard.”

You might have already noticed that in some retailers, you already see Christmas trees and decorations being sold.  It’s in line with Pumpkin Spice Lattes being sold in August.  Retailers are trying to spread out these holiday purchases to get the most from the seasons of spending on specific items.  It also might help consumers to not have to buy everything in one month and having it hit their expenses all at once.  Regardless, we are in a world of earlier and earlier in many areas, which is forcing all of us to plan ahead and think ahead of the curve.

We know that we can receive all of God’s love early or late in life.  He doesn’t withhold any of Himself from us because we come to Him late, or later than we should.  However, why would we want to wait?  I once met a member of Augusta National (the golf club that puts on The Masters) and I asked him if there was anything he would change about Augusta?  He thought for a moment and said, “I’d have had them invite me to be a Member a lot earlier than they did.”  Like he desired, we should desire to be in the presence of the Lord and surrendered to Him as early and as long as we can.  So, let’s come to Him earlier and earlier with all that we have.

Reference: Matthew 20:1 (New Living Translation)