Category: Coaching

How a Beautiful Girl Humbled Me Last Night

Put on Your Uniform

On Halloweeeeeen Like many rituals in modernity the day has been washed into a consumeristic orgy. As houses and costumes get dressed up. Over $3.3billion sold in 2021. And for many adults its time to delve into fantasy and pretend and party. Sadly many so called adults use the dress up as a reason to […]

Building Kids For a Better Future

My friend Tony Petrozza interviewed me for his The Self-Help Coaching Podcast with Tony Petrozza. I share a ton of beliefs that have served me as a coach and entrepreneur. See full episode on The Self-Help Coaching Podcast: How Does Coaching Football Relate to Life? What is a skill stack? Why mix Coach Tim football […]

Get Your Superman on!

Building a Better Mask For a Better You

Tim O’Keefe Psychology Masks What if you can put on whatever role you want so that you feel safer to own that role? My ex players know that as the “Put your superman on” install I do before every practice. Such that they take on personal identities larger than whence they started. This talks about […]

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How Does a Trainer to the CIA Help a Football Coach?

Chase Hughes teaches you military grade persuasion skills A football coach, hopefully you know that you are a salesman. And everything you do is to get your players to buy what you are selling. Hopefully what you are selling is worthy of their attention. But that is a talk for another day. This talk is […]

How to Positively Motivate a Team

? Positive football coaching positive motivation Coach Tim  [auto-iframe link=https://www.facebook.com/Tim.OKeefe.Page/videos/2287232094635349/ width=640 height=360 autosize=yes] Don’t do that is a sure path to someone doing that. There are many reasons why. I have found from 15 years of coaching that people operate better from good feelings. So as a coach I have transformed from you did this […]

Anthony Bourdain and Lots of Pain

“Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” Shakespeare’s Hamlet As they were burying a dear friend yesterday. One week after his suicide, I was once again reminded by the news of the horrible pain that we humans can put ourselves through. I know that mental realities can cause us pain that manifests […]

Are You a Transformational Coach?.. its easier the other way.

I brought back the Sunday Sermon. Did you know that great football coaches are better businessmen than most people in business? Also learn if you are taking the easy way out as a transactional leader , or are the more difficult , self aware- transformational leader. All the thought leaders mentioned are on the podcast […]