As a student of personal development for over 30 years now, I've read well over a thousand books, attended dozens of seminars and masterminds, and worked with coaches and mentors whenever I felt stuck. And in a lot of cases, that help to improve things.
But in a lot of cases I found that learning to be your own “Life Coach” can be just as powerful or even more powerful than working with others, for a number of reasons. However, in some cases I felt stuck in certain areas of my life regardless whether I tried to be own life coach or working with someone else.
Then over the past year or so I started experimenting and building a system of AI powered coaching assistants that has helped me to essentially have “Superhuman” abilities as my own Life Coach.
I now use this system on a daily basis and it’s helping me a LOT, and I wanted to share three very specific and deep examples of how it’s been helping me in a few different categories of my life.
I also recorded a video covering this as well, which you can see here if you prefer to watch or listen instead of reading:
Here are the three examples I share in the video:
Example #1 - The Supplement Block I Couldn't Break for 20 Years
About 25 years ago, in my mid-20s, I got serious about nutrition. I read a stack of health books, got confused because every author had a different opinion (and half of them just wanted to sell me something), and eventually enrolled in an advanced sports nutrition program at a local college. I studied it for two years and got certified, not to become a nutritionist, but so I could finally build a supplement stack for myself and stick with it.
What I discovered is that knowing what you should do and actually doing it are two completely different things. I'd start taking a multivitamin, get excited about some new supplement I'd researched, take it for a week or two, then drop it and move to something else. Starting and stopping. For 20 years.
I didn’t know why I could stick to it, but one issue I did notice was that the results I would get were ambiguous. For example, I'd mention or recommend omega-3 EFAs to friends with dry skin issues and if they tried it, it would work great for them.
But, I might have same dry skin or dry elbows and I’d take EFAs as well and ... nothing. That kind of thing would happen and it would plant little seeds of doubt in my mind —- and doubt is like a poison, it has to get rooted out or you'll keep self-sabotaging.
Then about a year ago, a routine blood test showed I was deficient in vitamin D, despite supplementing it. That was the wake-up call. So I built myself an AI nutrition coaching assistant and started digging into why, after two decades, I still couldn't stay consistent.
Mental Block #1: My Subconscious Couldn't See the Benefits
My AI assistant helped me realize my conscious mind trusted the research completely, but my subconscious mind couldn't visualize what any of it was actually doing. Supplements are easy to take, and just as easy to skip, and if your subconscious can't picture the benefit, it decides there isn't one. So with AI, I built a visualization tool that breaks every supplement down into its individual ingredients and maps out, as a percentage, how much support each one provides to different parts of the body, over 3 months, 6 months, a year. Seeing that on my screen every day finally got my subconscious mind on board. I've been fully consistent with my supplements for three months straight now. First time in my life.
Mental Block #2: I Was Missing a Layer of Nuance
The second block was that doubt from the EFA situation. So I went deeper.
I got the idea to download my raw DNA data from one of those genetic testing sites and had AI cross-reference it against publicly available research on genetic variant markers, basically how specific DNA variants affect the way your body absorbs and utilizes different nutrients.
What I found blew my mind. I have variants that limit my body's ability to convert plant-based omega-3 (ALA) into the EPA form that actually helps with skin issues. And for 20 years, every omega-3 supplement I bought was the flax-seed, plant-based kind, because I assumed it was the "better" option.
I had the wrong form of the supplement the entire time, which now explained why it didn’t work. I switched to a fish-based EPA source, and within a few weeks my elbows went from dry and scaly to smooth.
I also found variants affecting my vitamin D absorption, which explained the deficiency, and adjusted my dosage with my doctor accordingly.
To be clear, I'm not a doctor and none of this is medical advice, talk to your own doctor before changing anything. But the point stands: that research existed in the public domain the whole time. It just would have taken me years to manually cross-reference hundreds of studies against my own DNA markers. AI did it in days.
Example #2 - Trading: Superhuman Memory and Pattern Recognition
Now, here's my point with this, it's not just about supplements. About 5 years ago I started day trading as a hobby, and for years I got mixed results because I couldn't consistently spot my own patterns across hundreds of trades.
My AI trading coach assistant does two things. First, it acts as an accountability partner, making sure I actually log the data on every trade instead of skipping it when I'm lazy or busy. Second, it gives me something close to superhuman pattern recognition.
A few months ago I took a losing trade on Microsoft. I'd taken a nearly identical losing trade six months earlier, followed by a winning trade an hour later on the same fake-out-then-breakout setup, but I'd completely forgotten about it.
My AI assistant pulled up both old trades when I asked it to review my recent activity, and now I recognize that Microsoft pattern the moment it starts forming.
AI isn’t trading for me or telling me what or how to trade. I’m still doing the trading myself, but AI is acting as my accountability partner and essentially giving me unlimited memory and pattern analysis abilities to make sure nothing slips through the cracks.
Example #3 - Content Creation: Killing the Excuses
The last example is the reason this article exists at all. I used to blog, make videos, and stream on Twitch for six years, then life and business got busy and I stopped.
I wanted to get back into it, but I kept procrastinating, partly because I'd torn apart my old camera and lighting setup during a basement renovation and had no idea what still worked. Being your own accountability coach is genuinely hard. It's a lot like how a great hair stylist can't cut their own hair.
So I set up an AI assistant with one job: identify every excuse I was hiding behind and break each one into a tiny, doable step, then call me out when I stalled. It helped me figure out what gear to reuse, what to upgrade, how to set up lighting and audio, and most importantly, it didn't let me off the hook.
The result was that I’m now back to producing content both in terms of blogs posts and videos.
The Real Takeaway
Don't get hung up on the specific examples I gave or the categories of life they fall under. What I'm actually trying to point at is the ability itself: AI can help you dig past surface-level advice into the actual mental blocks underneath, and it can hold you accountable to yourself in a way that's brutally hard to do alone.
As a human, you've still got gifts AI will never replace. But used the right way, AI can supercharge your ability to coach yourself instead of staying stuck.
If you're already using AI this way, I'd love to hear what you've built. And if you haven't started, I hope this gives you something to dig into, and remember to have some fun with it!
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