Heard Tommy Woodard’s stuff getting hyped online lately – all these posts screaming “life-changing success secrets!” Honestly felt sketchy, but my own routines weren’t cutting it anymore. Figured I’d give his methods a real test run. Grabbed a notebook, brewed coffee, and committed to seven days straight of mimicking his core strategies.
The Daily Grind Breakdown
Started with what Tommy calls “punching the clock on yourself.” Monday morning, woke up at 5:00 AM dead tired. Alarm felt like a personal attack. Stumbled to my kitchen table and wrote down one massive priority for the day – no wishy-washy to-do lists. Mine? Finish overdue client proposal by noon. Felt brutal ignoring emails screaming in my inbox, but left ’em on read until lunch. Wild how much got done without distractions.
Mid-week slump hit hard Wednesday. Tommy talks about “micro-pivoting” when stuck. I’d been grinding on spreadsheets for hours, totally fried. Instead of pushing harder? Switched locations immediately. Drove to a greasy diner down the street. Ordered burnt coffee and scribbled project ideas on napkins like a weirdo. That shift unlocked three solutions I’d missed at home.
Truth Bombs & Reality Checks
By day five, noticed something sneaky happening. His “noise filter” method saved my sanity. Tommy insists on blocking 20 minutes daily to consciously dump mental clutter. Did it right after dinner – wrote pages of stupid worries like “Did Steve notice my typo?” or “Will client pay late?” Closed the notebook and left it rotting on the counter. Woke up feeling lighter. Who knew brain trash pickup mattered?
Friday exposed a gap though. His advice on morning routines? Not for mortals. Wasted 20 minutes trying to meditate like he showed in videos. My legs cramped, mind raced about dry cleaning. Ditched it cold turkey. Swapped meditation for blasting punk rock while sprinting around my backyard. High energy chaos worked better than forced Zen.
Endgame Real Talk
Final results surprised me. That proposal finished Tuesday? Landed the contract yesterday. Cleared 12 nagging tasks just by protecting mornings. Still skeptical of gurus… but tracking exact inputs changed everything. Wrote down hours spent, energy levels, dumb distractions. Saw patterns screaming: phone scrolling murdered momentum, client calls after 3 PM tanked focus.
Massive shoutout to Tommy’s rule: “What got measured got fixed.” Not magic – just brutal self-accountability. Would I follow every step forever? Hell no. But cherry-picking his scrappy methods? That’s sticking around. Found weird power in telling my own brain “shut up, we’re working now.”