Welcome to this edition of the Shalene Show. Today, we're going to talk about what it takes to be a finisher.

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.

I know, normally, on Fridays, I do a car smart edition, but today's a little different. And that is because I was never in my car today.

I was never in my car today because I spent the entire day doing something I didn't really feel like doing, but I had to finish it.

Now, before I go into that, I want to kind of go way back because I'm hoping that you're listening to this, realizing that there's certain things you're not great at finishing.

Maybe you just never finish anything. You're really good at starting things, we just never finish anything.

Or maybe you're a pretty good finisher, but there's some areas we'd like to improve.

I can tell you that this is something all of us can improve upon. If you're someone who's like, you're so bad at finishing things, you just jump from one thing to the next thing to the next thing, you can change that. It's a habit.

So I want to go back to a time when I didn't know how to finish things. And that was pretty much all my life.

And I'm not blaming my parents because my parents are awesome. We've heard them on the show before, but I didn't have to finish anything.

They didn't make me finish anything. If I didn't love doing something, if I just started it, if they had paid for six months with the piano lessons, and I went for a couple of weeks and hated it because what kid doesn't hate piano lessons when they're little and want to just play, they'd let me quit.

If I joined softball team or you know, playing on a sports team, and I wasn't a starter or if I didn't have the coach's attention, I would want to quit.

And sometimes something got difficult or challenging or boring, or anytime I felt like I wasn't going to get the attention or I wasn't going to be the best or it was going to be a struggle, I quit because it was uncomfortable.

And I was allowed to do that. And in my mind, I thought, well, I'm getting decent or okay at a bunch of things. I knew I wasn't ever going to be great at anything, but I just didn't like that uncomfortable feeling when things got boring, when it was challenging.

So I always just quit and I was allowed to. But as I got older and was on my own and married, I just realized like, I'm going to live this life of mediocrity, like all these things that I want to accomplish, the house I want to live in, the way I want to be able to raise my children, the car I want to drive, the money I want to have my bank account, like I'm not going to have any of those things.

Unless I learn how to finish something, there's a lot that goes into finishing. But today I want to share with you the story of something I can't even tell you right now that I'm finished with it, but I can tell you with 100% certainty, I'm almost finished with it.

And I've celebrated the finish of it prematurely several times. And that is my book. I mean, you've been hearing about it for almost a year now.

This is my second book. The first book I wrote was called Push. It's about goal setting and how to accomplish a healthier, happier life by learning how to get focused, how to finish, if you will, how to have a plan, how to create a vision for yourself for the life that you want, the life that you desire, how to create that plan and how to develop a plan that fits with your own priorities and your lifestyle and your belief.

And then how to make it happen using a to do list, a 30 day to do list. That was my first book. It did in fact end up becoming a New York Times best seller, which is amazing, unbelievable, so cool. But that wasn't 2011.

And it wasn't the funnest thing I ever did. I have to tell you, you've heard me say this on the show before I'm a slow writer. I would much rather talk to you when it comes to writing, I reread and rewrite and I just, that's one area I'd say I tend to be a perfectionist. And I'm not a perfectionist in any other area.

And I don't even know if I could say I'm a perfectionist because now you're going to expect me to be a really good writer. I'm not. I just, I think about it and it wasn't fun. It was challenging and it was difficult. And I had to be super focused and I had to finish it. And I did. And that felt really, really good.

But I also vowed that it would be a long time before I wrote another book. And then along came my own health scare where I had an issue with my brain, my health started to decline. I was struggling with my hormones and brain fog and leaky gut. And that of course led me to do the research I started on that eventually resulted in the one through one method, which, you know, as you know, I was struggling with my hormones and brain fog and leaky gut.

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