Doaa Bazan

You don't need another book telling you to "just be more disciplined."

If that had worked, you wouldn't still be struggling with the same habits.

Before the Habit was written for a different question.

Not: "How do I force myself to change?"
But: "What happens before I decide not to?"

If you've ever blamed yourself for not starting... for stopping... for knowing exactly what to do and still feeling stuck...

This book was written for you.

Because lasting change doesn't begin with the habit.

It begins before it.
Before the Habit: Where Change Begins is available now.🌸🌸

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H85DCR6N

كل شوية كنت أسمع نفس الجملة.
"أنا عارف المفروض أعمل إيه... بس مش عارف ليه مش قادر أبدأ."

الجملة دي كانت بتفضل في بالي.
وأفضل أسأل نفسي...

هو إيه اللي بيحصل قبل العادة؟

قبل ما نلوم نفسنا.
قبل ما نقول إن إرادتنا ضعيفة.
قبل ما نقرر نبدأ من أول وجديد.

السؤال ده هو اللي خلاني أكتب Before the Habit.
مش علشان أضيف كتاب جديد.
ولا برنامج جديد.
ولا أقول للناس يعملوا إيه.

كنت بدور على إجابة.

إجابة لسؤال سمعته من ناس كتير... ويمكن سألته لنفسي كمان.

Before the Habit هو أقرب حاجة أقدر أقول عليها شغل عمري لحد دلوقتي

لو الجملة دي عدت عليك قبل كده...
ولو حسيت إن البداية بتبقى أصعب من المفروض...
أتمنى تلاقي بين صفحاته حاجة تخليك تبص لنفسك بنظرة مختلفة.

فيه عينة مجانية على Kindle تقدر تبدأ بيها، والكتاب متوفر بنسخة Kindle ونسخة ورقية.
📖 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H85DCR6N

يمكن البداية مش هي أول الحكاية
🌸

From the first cohort of "Before the Habit". 🌸

A participant from the first cohort of "Before the Habit". 🌸

"How much trial and error did it take to get the input that was consistent?"

A coach friend asked me this after trying Before the Habit.
It's one of the best questions I've been asked.
People often think the work was writing prompts.

It wasn't.

The work was designing conditions.

Months of development weren't spent trying to make AI smarter.
They were spent trying to create a reflective space that remained consistent, restrained, and respectful of the person's own perception.

One sentence could change the entire conversation.
One assumption could quietly replace what the person was beginning to notice.
That was the challenge.

People already use AI as a reflective surface long before they seek a coach, therapist, physician, or another professional.
If that reflective surface is becoming part of everyday life, then how we design those conversations matters.

Before the Habit is one application of Gentle Emotional Engineering™.

It is based on GEE, but it isn't GEE itself.

Just as some AI mental health tools are built on CBT without being CBT, Before the Habit is built on GEE principles to create a particular reflective experience.

Developing it also taught me something unexpected.
Behavior isn't always the best place to begin.
Sometimes the most important work happens before behavior becomes the reasnoable focus.

Sometimes people first need conditions that help them regain access to what they already sense. Their emotions, body signals, perceptions, and the influence of the environments they live in.
Only then does change begin to feel like a reasonable invitation rather than another demand.

The more I work on GEE, the less I see it as another behavior change method.
I see it as another dimension that can sit alongside existing approaches.
Not replacing them.
Helping create the conditions in which they can do their best work.

That question is becoming much bigger than AI.

And I'm still exploring where this leads.

From a participant in the first cohort of "Before the Habit". 🌸

One word. 🌸

That was the intention. I'm grateful it gave you that. 🌸