It’s all about reprogramming the mind!!

Hello, I’m so happy to say the I had passed today FOURTH time round. For a little bit of context, my main issues when driving where my anxious responses, I would constantly be inflight mode when driving, speeding round corners, taking risks etc not because I was overconfident but really because I was anxious.

Aside from the usual tips about breathing, eating a banana, remedy drops etc I would say the biggest tip that helped me when preparing for my lessons and also going into my test is reframing my negative thought which were mostly ‘I’m a bad driver’, ‘I’m always making mistakes etc to instead ‘I am a safe driver’, ‘I am a confident driver’, ‘I take my time’, along those sort of lines, and as corny as it might sound, I genuinely had a day and night difference of the quality of my driving.

For the actual test, luckily I did have quite a nice examiners as he was very chatty, but I would also say speaking out really does help and also make the examiner aware of what is going through your mind.

I also passed with 0 minors which is crazy considering my first 3, the examiners had to take control of the car!

Also another thing I will add is don’t be afraid to switch instructors, I had the same instructor for the first three times and it’s not that he was a bad instructor, it’s just after you spend so many hours with one instructor they can sometime become more lenient with you, look over certain mistakes o a fresh pair of eyes is handy. It can be hard since it almost feels like you have a loyalty to your instructor but having a new instructor definitely also played a part.