Welcome to the Shalene Show. Shalene is a New York Times best-selling author, celebrity fitness

trainer, and obsessed with helping you live your dream life.

So it's time for some change. And not change ourselves, but change of somebody else. I mean,

why would we need to change for so perfect?

Absolutely perfect. And that's why we're listening to this program so we can help other people in our lives

become more perfect just like us. I'm just kidding, but you know, I mean, let's face it,

the people who we love the most are the people who drive us crazy sometimes. And that's just the natural

tug that natural ebb and flow of important relationships. It's the people who you care about the most

are the people who you sometimes struggle with those relationships. And it's because you care

about those relationships that we spend so much time trying to perfect them, trying to make those

relationships better. So I congratulate you actually for listening to this podcast because I do believe

it is a way to improve yourself, even though we're talking about how to get somebody else to change.

I'm going to do a little bit of bait and switch in this program and teach you that the best way to get somebody to change

really is to perhaps change your approach, at least your way of thinking about it.

So before we get started, I want you to think about somebody you have in mind,

someone who's really important to you because you love them, you care about them, you want to be around them.

And then of course, there's those people who you wish they would change not because you love them,

but because you kind of have to be around them all the time. And the principles I'm going to share in this

brief podcast are really going to apply no matter who you're dealing with, whether it's your teenage

daughter, the annoying guy who works in the cubicle next to you, your sister or your,

your significant other. But before we go further, I want you to know this.

It does take work. And in fact, the more valuable the relationship, the more important it is that you work for these things to happen.

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