Keepin’ It Real with Cam Marston® are weekly commentaries airing at 7:45AM and 4:45PM on Fridays on Alabama Public Radio since 2018. Each tells a story designed to deliver motivation, inspiration, or humor. The commentaries have won both state-wide and national awards.
The Keepin’ It Real with Cam Marston® videos are 26 short (3:30s+/-) videos designed to deliver motivation, inspiration, and awareness around important workplace topics. Workplaces utilize the videos to build teams, develop a positive and inclusive workplace culture, and become a common conversation topic for employees, teams, and workplaces. The videos are branded for the organization and each video comes with a Learning Supplement to help team leaders debrief the video.
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My three million miles of airline travel have taught me some things about travel and how to take it all in stride, especially during the busy holiday travel season. Bottom line: Smile. Let it roll.
We create terms and phrases to insert into our lives to disguise the fact that what we’re really doing is just having fun.
I wish I could remain immune to Christmas stress but memories of past Christmases make me go overboard. And I probably will again this year.
My clients ask me to stimulate their thinking. To push them to identify a new paradigm that will shape their business in the future. I introduce them to the idea of lanterns and candles. And turntables. And horses. And travel agents.
I’m an OK guy at most things I do. But from time to time I spot folks and I know immediately that I’m better than those people. And it seems I’m always in my car when I see them.
It was my wife’s repeated trips from the back of the house to the full-length mirror in the hall that caught my attention. Each trip she wore something slightly different. They were all minor changes from the previous trip. She’d do a quick glance up and down, a quick turn to check out the back, then a hurried return trip to the back of the house for a change.
The economist went on to observe how the top ten percent of people who earned the most wanted less stuff. And the bottom ninety percent of earners want more stuff than they can afford. There is a lesson here. And if you knew me well, you’d know that I’m a hypocrite of this very lesson.
I commit more sins on Sundays in the ninety minutes leading up to church than I do in the entire rest of the week. Getting my kids out of bed, dressed, and into the car by 9:45 on Sunday mornings is work. And while I try to be a being that functions at a higher level, who inspires people to pursue behavior that is good and right, on Sunday mornings I sink down into the mud and throw slop with the hogs. It’s awful.
Then he took questions. And a couple questions were about topics he had just covered. Others asked questions that the coach felt related to some of his previous comments. And each time the coach felt the question was not up to par or was something he was unworthy of discussing considering how popular and how busy he was, he belittled the person asking the question with a rude comment.
The primary pet owner today is the Gen X family which means the parent or parents are between their early forties and mid-fifties. Households where the oldest child is between 6 and 17 years old spend the most on pets, at a smidge of just over $800 per year. About seventy five percent of that amount is spent on pet food and vet bills. This is, exactly, my house.