An essential tool in Learning to Drive - your diary!

Intensive Driving Course in Peterborough

Keep failing the driving test?  Finding it really difficult to learn to drive?

You are not alone, this can be very frustrating for many people.  Take a moment to step back for 2 minutes, read this blog, I promise it will help you in your cause.

There can be several possible reasons why things are not working out for you, but a very common one is the method you are choosing to learn to drive.  The key word in that last sentence is “YOU”, this is all about identifying a strategy to learning that works for you personally.  Consider for a minute how you actually feel when you are in the car on a driving lesson; do you feel happy, comfortable, are you enjoying the experience?  If not, it’s a little bit like swimming against the tide; you are working hard, but not actually getting anywhere.

One little trap that many people fall in to is to not properly consider a time-plan for learning to drive.  As such, they tend to "bunny hop" around driving lessons in a very ad-hoc way.  Some people even repeatedly swap Driving Instructors maybe making the most of any promotions being offered along the way.   If there is one word that completely describes what you, me, all of us NEED when we are learning something, it is consistency.   By that I mean you need to take regular lessons at a duration that suits you, with the same Driving Instructor that suits you, in the same Driving School car that suits you. Taking a driving lesson one week for say an hour, then leaving it 3 weeks until your next is really not helping you to develop.  

It’s almost like you are 'designing in' failure to your strategy.  

The reason this is counter-productive is because you are leaving it too long between driving lessons to build on any progress being made.  Learning is all about making regular bite size chunks of improvement, and continually BUILDING on that success.   If you leave it too long between learning sessions, you have very likely forgotten what you learnt on the last session, so you spend half an hour, just trying to get back to the level you were at on the previous session.  Consequently, you get demotivated and frustrated at the lack of progress you are making.

What’s the answer to this problem?  Build a time-plan to success.  

Might sound a cliché, but it is essential to helping you achieve your goal of passing the driving test.  We are all busy people, with many commitments all eating in to our available time.  You need to sit down with a diary, and commit yourself to providing yourself with regular time slots to aid your learning experience.  One reason why many people choose Intensive Driving Courses to learn to drive is precisely for this reason, time pressure.  With one of my Intensive Courses in Peterborough or Grantham, you can set aside time to achieve your goal with minimal interruption to your lifestyle.

 

If you prefer to learn with say one driving session per week, it’s essential you fully commit yourself – both in terms of time and the finances required.  If you take a single 1hour driving lesson per week, then you need to be preparing yourself to commit in your diary to it taking about a year to learn to drive.  Now that might be fine with you, you may not be in any rush, but it’s essential you truly do commit to a session per week in your diary.

So the first step to designing in success...... GET YOUR DIARY OUT NOW, and start really using it!

Best of luck with making your dream come true.       

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