Who Do You Want to Be?: 8 steps to discovering your deepest desires and creating a joyful and successful life
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Book Overview
Who Do You Want to Be? gives you an 8-step path to create a life you genuinely love, no matter where you are starting. It shows you how to use your mind, your habits, and your environment to design a life filled with clarity, joy, success, and abundance. Most of us were never taught how to prepare for life or how to think in ways that support our deepest desires. This book fills that gap with a simple and practical formula that helps you become the person who naturally attracts the results you want.
Alina Shahnazari was born into an Armenian family in Iran before moving to the United States after earning her software engineering degree. She has worked at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Snapchat, and the Motion Picture Association of America. She is a mother, an avid reader, and a lifelong student of personal development and healing.
After leaving NASA in 2018, Alina began researching what creates fulfilling and sustainable success. She studied people across industries and income levels, asking one central question: what are the most aligned, joyful, and successful people doing differently? With the curiosity of an engineer and the heart of a guide, she distilled years of research and real-life experiments into a clear and minimalist framework that anyone can follow.
Her mission is rooted in integrity and love. She wrote this book for readers and also for her daughters, Myla and Adella. That choice shaped her commitment to make the work honest, grounded, and genuinely useful. She rejects the belief that constant hustle is the path to success and shows you how to remove internal blocks, reshape your identity, create supportive environments, and use imagination as a tool for transformation.
What makes Alina's work stand out is the combination of engineering clarity, personal insight, and practical tools. She teaches how thought, emotion, and environment shape behavior and how shifting your identity first allows your subconscious to guide you toward the shortest path to your goals. Her writing is warm, direct, and easy to follow. You will feel supported and encouraged rather than overwhelmed.
In this book, you will learn how to:
- Decide who you want to be and embody that identity now
- Use imagination and visualization to prepare your mind for the results you desire
- Build environments that naturally pull you toward your future
- Release limiting beliefs with simple and reliable tools
- Focus on the few actions that truly create progress
- Let go of over-control and move with clarity and confidence
If you are driven but tired of feeling stuck or stretched thin, this book will feel like a reset. It helps you gain clarity without overthinking, build momentum without burning out, and create results without losing your values. You will walk away with a compass you can return to whenever you want to realign, simplify, and move with purpose.
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