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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 909: Tuesdays

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“And evening passed and morning came, marking the third day.”

Tuesdays are interesting days.  In fact, Tuesday is the day that doesn’t have much to mark it in the week. Sunday is the first day of the week.  Monday is the first day of the workweek.  Wednesday marks the middle of the week and the hump day of work.  Thursday is the day before the end of the workweek and begins a feeling that the end is near.  Friday is the end of the workweek and Saturday is the first day of the weekend and then we start all over again.  But what is Tuesday?  Actually Tuesday is a great day to get things done.  It’s a great day to set meetings because Monday is out of the way and if someone is going to travel they may not go out on the road until mid-week.  I read a research report once that said that 10:30AM on Tuesday morning may be the best time of the week to gain someone’s attention for an interview of sale presentation.  Today is Tuesday, so let’s see how productive we can make it this week!

As believers we can use Tuesday as an ongoing marking day for us.  Tuesday is the “Third day” of the week.  Part of our Christian life is recognizing that for God there is great and significant symbolism of the third day.  So, for nothing else, let’s take the productivity that may be natural on Tuesdays in our workweek and use this day to focus on the glory of the third day and let’s triple down with our efforts to live and work for the glory of Him as our purpose.  What can we do today differently to be a magnifying reflection of Jesus?  Let the “third day’ be His day in your life!

Reference:  Genesis 1:13 (New Living Translation)