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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 2840: Things That Matter

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“For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return.”

How do we determine what really matters?  All day long we have to make the decision on what does or doesn’t as how we expend our time becomes an issue. I’m a big fan of the “Sketch Guy” (Carl Richards) for how he takes complex stuff and distills it down onto a cocktail napkin. When I saw this one it reminded me of the truth that so little of the bigger picture around us really does matter as it relates to what we can do something about. We’ve been faced with big picture problems many times but it’s not until we we carve them up into digestible pieces that we can begin to find the part that really matters to us.  One way we can think about what matters and what we can control is the question to ourselves  on what can we do to help?  If we find that that we can then we are well on our way.

 

 

 

 

 

Paul, tells the Philippians about what really matters and that is the focus we are to have in our faith and upon Christ. When it comes down to it, there is so much we can’t control.  As I write this, we are in the middle of a wicked thunderstorm with lightening that seems right outside the window and thunder that you can’t hear yourself speak above. I have no more control over the storm as I do the beautiful weather that will likely be behind the clouds.  And so is our lives, our work and so many things.   Let’s keep our focus where it needs to be and let God take care of the rest.

Reference: Philippians 1:10 (New Living Translation)