You are listening to the Driving Confidence Podcast for drivers who want to be calm and confident on the road. We will be sharing tips, stories, and advice to beat driving nerves and anxiety and build your driving confidence whether you are just starting out as a learner or have had your driving license for years. If you want to transform how you've. Feel about driving this podcast is for you. The very first thing we want to say in this episode is happy new year. Happy new year to you all. So with it being new year's day. It's the time that lots of people decide to make new year's resolutions. We wondered, how many of you were thinking about making your new year's resolution about getting back to driving or getting back on the road. We thought that maybe we could help out by sharing some small, simple steps. That we think will help you with your driving goals. Step one is actually having a think about. How important this is to you. Is the idea of getting back behind the wheel, getting back on the road or getting back to driving lessons. Is this a real goal? Is this something that you really want to. do Yeah, because we know some people start new year's resolutions. And by the end of the first week, they've broken them. So we wanted to break it down. Give you easy steps for you to follow so that you can actually achieve your driving goals. Yeah. And let's face it for any new development, any areas that you're looking to make a change. This takes effort. Definitely. And you need to recognize what your motivation is. And be able to reflect back on, always have that. That mental image or that bit of paper that's pinned to the fridge. So you see it every day that gives you that goal and keeps reminding you. Of what your goals are. The motivation is staying there with you. Yeah. So it really is thinking about. Is that something that would just be a nice to. Are you actually really hoping that there's a magic wand and you're suddenly going to materialize overnight into a brilliant driver. Or is this something that you genuinely, uh, prepared to put some work in? Put some effort in, because if you listen to any of the real life stories, the one theme. That comes through for me, each of our guests. Is that they had to put the work in. They had to put some effort in. And it didn't just happen all on its own. No. And we've come up with three questions that are help you find what's going to motivate you and stay on track. To get you back on the road, driving. So question number one is what does getting back driving give you? Question number two. Where will you be able to go? And question number three. Who else benefits from you getting back on the road, driving. So three, simple questions. What we'd like to do is write them down, keep them somewhere handy. And then over the course of these simple six little podcasts that we've done. Your buildup, your driving goals and be able to stay on track with your motivation for getting back on driving. Hopefully with those questions and that idea of how important is this really? To me. Hopefully that will get you thinking. And deciding whether this is really the goal for you this year. Now, if it is, later on in the year, we're going to be running a free event. To help people get back on the road. So if you'd like to register your interest, you can find the link in the show notes. And of course you can find all the information about other ways that we can help. On our website. And so we'll be back tomorrow with our next step. Thank you for listening. Find out about the different ways that you can work with us on our website, www.confidentdrivers.co.uk, and begin to transform the way you feel about driving.