Exploring your initial motivation

The starting point is to explore your reasons for choosing a new career as a driving instructor. With this in mind I want you to take a brief trip down 'memory lane'.

• Take a little time to remember when you first had the idea that driving instruction might be good a great career for you.

• Identify that exact moment when you made your decision and recall just how you felt right now.

• This moment is very important because it was the all-important first step in deciding what you want and in the journey towards getting it for yourself.

There are many different reasons for deciding to become a driving instructor. My guess is that you can relate to some of the things listed below and perhaps you can think of lots of other things that helped with the decision about your new career.

Whatever your reasons for getting to this point – spend some time to think about them now, and how they are about to start changing your life for the better.

• My current job is boring

• My current job is badly paid

• There must be an easier way of earning a living than what I am doing now

• I have been made redundant

• I am at an age when it is unlikely that I will get another job doing the work I used to do

• I am fed up with being ordered around by other people

• I need a change

• I want a challenge

• I want more job satisfaction

• I want to earn more

• I want to be my own boss

• I want more freedom in the way I work

• I want a job training people because that is what I have done before.

• I want a job that I enjoy doing

Next: After thinking about the reasons that you have decided to become a driving instructor move on to Step 3 to find out about self-motivation.