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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 2737: Tying Up Loose Ends

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“A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls.”

If you are in the office today and tomorrow, it’s about tying up loose ends and clearing out what has been sitting on the desk for far too long.  Or maybe, just maybe, you are ahead of the curve and today and tomorrow are about laying out and planning the year and the first quarter.  Which are you doing? Either is fine and just as fine is that you are still spending downtime with friends and family.  There is a time for each of these and what is most important is that we know which we are needing to do and when.  Too many times we let the business (people, schedule, due dates, urgency, agenda) drive our calendars and not the other way around, which as we intuitively know, is the better way.  But, as long as we are trying, we are going in the right direction.

While we might be tying up our loose business ends, we can still be planning our upcoming spiritual strengthening for the year.  We can commit now, before the year starts, to our Bible reading and study plan, the devotional and prayer times that we can calendar daily and the scheduling of our service times at church.  Why is it important that we plan ahead in these areas?  Because, as we know, life serves us continuous loose ends to tie up, challenging our self-control, stealing away the invaluable time that we can never get back. We can’t control everything we have on our plate, but if we keep our focus where it should be, those loose ends will still be there, but they won’t be such that they take control over us.

Reference: Proverbs 25:28 (New Living Translation)