Aligned AF: I Had to Get My Sh*t Together

by Brian Turner

You can’t build the life you want if you’re out of alignment.

For years, Brian B. Turner did all the “right” things. He hustled. He launched brands. He hired teams. He posted, prayed, and pushed. On the outside, it looked like progress. Inside, it was chaos.

Aligned AF isn’t a polished success story. It’s a raw reflection on what happens when effort outpaces clarity, and on the discipline it takes to rebuild from the ground up.

This book is for anyone who has ever

Scattered by too many ideas

Burned out by constant hustle

Overlooked, underpaid, or stuck

Tired of posting, proving, and still not progressing

Through honest stories and hard lessons, Brian reveals why alignment is not a vibe or a mood. It’s a discipline. It’s structure. It’s the daily choice to stop performing purpose and start protecting it.

If you’re ready to reset, rebuild, and finally get your sh*t together, this book will meet you where you are , and show you what alignment really looks like.

50 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 4, 2025

About the author

Brian Turner is the author of a memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, and five collections of poetry— Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise; with The Wild Delight of Wild Things, The Goodbye World Poem, and The Dead Peasant’s Handbook due out from Alice James Books in Fall, 2023. He’s the editor of The Kiss and co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres. A musician, he’s written and recorded albums with The Interplanetary Acoustic Team, including 11 11 (Me Smiling) and American Undertow with The Retro Legion. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, and Harper’s, among other fine journals, and he was featured in the documentary Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, nominated for an Academy Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, he’s received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Orlando with his dog, Dene, the world’s sweetest golden retriever.