Driving Lessons For Life

Driving Lessons for Life is a collection of short and inspiring stories about change, self-improvement, leadership, and becoming a better person. It is about strengthening individuals, marriages, families, the workplace, and all of our relationships. Author Jim R. Jacobs takes the common experiences of car drivers and applies them to our daily lives, asking readers to rev up their hearts and minds to achieve a smoother ride, whether you're already sailing along with your cruise control on or maneuvering life's potholes. Filled with car metaphors, hot rod memories, deep insights, and rear-view mirror humor, this book will teach you what your driving instructor never did, from what not to do in the car wash to the history behind giving someone the bird. Best of all, the car metaphors will make you recall the lessons in these pages every time you get in a vehicle and drive down the road.

Just when you thought you had it all figured out . . . "Alex Peter Gregory, you are a moron!" Laurie slammed her palms down on my desk and stomped her foot. I get a lot of that.One car crash.One measly little car crash. And suddenly, I'm some kind of convicted felon.My parents are getting divorced, my dad is shacking up with my third-grade teacher, I might be in love with a girl who could kill me with one finger, and now I'm sentenced to babysit some insane old guy.What else could possibly go wrong?This is the story of Alex Gregory, his guitar, his best gal pal Laurie, and the friendship of a lifetime that he never would have expected.

Traces the journalist author's efforts to understand his father's life by learning the sport that once drove them apart, describing how his father's passion for golf compromised his family relationships until the author asked his father to teach him the game. 40,000 first printing.

Road Warriors Life Lessons is an inspiration. It is based on personal knowledge of experiences learned in driving lessons taught the author by her father. Power dominates the driver of a vehicle as he takes the vehicle out onto an open road. The sense of command and control equally affects males and females. Maneuvering a vehicle skillfully is not a child s experience to be taken lightly. There are lessons gleaned from the narrator of this book of real-life ventures. Schoolinstructed driver s education courses combined with parental supervision mold preteen and teen lessons. This book demonstrates safety and guidance through actions bent toward humor and realism. Driving is a privilege offered during teen years. That privilege comes with responsibility to be viewed seriously by all drivers. The humor illustrated in the storyline is easily adaptable to the readers everyday life involving the world of driving a vehicle. It is much easier to grin or laugh at another person s errors or mishaps than own them. Better to experience through third-party humor than actually feel the effects of any of the book s scenarios. Driving defensively is an art. Safety first does not mean much until driving students think of that safety in terms of his life and the lives of others on the road. One Life Lesson -- Remember sheet metal can be replaced; body parts are not easily repaired. Vehicles roll off an assembly line, not your body. We encounter so many experiences up close and personal when learning to drive a vehicle. Let those experiences be due to safe, defensive driving techniques.

Imagine lying awake in bed, waiting to hear the front door open so you’ll know your teen is home safely. But instead, tonight, the doorbell rings. Your heart stops when you see the police officers in the doorway, and you know instantly that your life will never be the same again. Wouldn’t you do ANYTHING to go back and change things? By then it will be too late. The time to prepare your teen to drive and survive is NOW! "3 Keys to Keeping Your Teen Alive" provides a simple step-by-step plan to prepare teens to become safe, responsible drivers. Parents can use it to teach their teens to drive or to make sure they cover all the bases in their practice sessions after the teen has taken a professional driver training course. "3 Keys to Keeping Your Teen Alive" includes: 25 structured driving lessons, great advice from top experts, checklists to follow and other useful tools. There are true stories, quizzes and puzzles to keep your teen interested and reinforce the learning. The companion website (TeensLearntoDrive.com) has additional resources and links to great instructional & informational videos that complement each lesson. The program works with Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) Programs. "3 Keys to Keeping Your Teen Alive" is straightforward and easy to follow but will take a lot of time, patience and dedication from both of you--parent and teen. Isn’t it worth it?

The definitive guide for driving instructors - packed with practical tips, tools, techniques, questions and scenarios to implement in your driving lessons straight away. Written specifically for driving instructors who want to gain a better understanding of coaching and client-centred learning techniques, Who's In The Driving Seat? is written by industry experts and coaching specialists, Ged Wilmot and Claire Wilmot. Written for trainee and fully-qualified driving instructors in an easy-to-follow format Fully explains the concepts of coaching and client-centred learning Step-by-step guide to structuring a fully client-centred driving lesson Packed with practical examples of coaching conversations in action Personal anecdotes help bring all the concepts to life Packed with practical tools and techniques, questions, scenarios and guidance Exclusive interactive features - access additional online content, downloads and extra resources related to the section you are reading Readers also have access to an exclusive 'members only' Facebook readers group, where they can interact directly with the authors and fellow driving instructors if they need further advice or guidance Husband and wife team, Ged Wilmot and Claire Wilmot have combined their 40+ years of driver training experience and backgrounds in Psychology, NLP and coaching, to devise a deep-dive, practical guide to becoming a more effective driving instructor. Taking the mystery out of client-centred learning and coaching, Who's In the Driving Seat? is an invaluable resource for all trainee and qualified driving instructors, regardless of age or experience. By the end of this book, you will have an excellent understanding of coaching and client-centred learning and you will be equipped with dozens of techniques to help your learner drivers become safe and responsible drivers - for LIFE. ------------------------------------------------ "A must-read, easy-to-follow masterpiece on client-centred learning and its application to the driver training industry. I can't recommend it highly enough. This will be essential reading for my PDIs and ADIs in the future. Brilliant!" -- Phil Hirst MCIPD (ADI Trainer) ------------------------------------------------ "This book is a step by step guide to client-centred learning. With easy to implement tools and techniques, example lesson scenarios and comprehensive references, this book will be a firm favourite on any conscientious driving instructor's reading list." -- Lou Walsh (ADI Trainer) ------------------------------------------------ "This book demystifies the art of client-centred learning and is invaluable if you wish to learn how to do it properly as a PDI or to make the switch if you are already an ADI. A great read!" -- Bob Morton (Training Director - Learner Driving Centre) ------------------------------------------------ "An invaluable resource for any ADI or PDI. The interactive element is useful, and I like the way it challenges the reader to self-reflect. An interesting and thought-provoking read." -- Lynne Barrie MA Driver Training (ADINJC Chairman) ------------------------------------------------

The Road to 'L' Do you remember your driving instructor? Well, they sure remember you. This is My next book and its title is The Road to 'L' I have just completed this my next book which is a humorous memoir. Set in Central London during the period 1981 to 1983 when I was a driving instructor in London working for The British School of Motoring. Pitched somewhere between the old English classic carry-on films and a series of sexy films called Confessions of... It is a humorous memoir of my time as a driving instructor; I reveal the stories of what can happen on a driving lesson, the offers of sexual favours and the actual driving routes I used all around the famous and historic landmarks of London. My books are all humorous memoirs hopefully in the style of Terry Pratchett They should appeal to anybody who likes anecdotal tales, I have tried to write in the style that would make you believe you are in a restaurant and I am with you just recounted episodes of my life or in a pub having a drink with friends, and I'm relating anecdotal stories about my life to you. The Road to 'L' is an eye-opening poignant and often hilarious romp through my years as a professional driving instructor in Central London back in the early 1980s. I reveal people's behaviour, conversations and downright dangerous things that happened to me during their lessons and their time learning to drive in my tuition car. I reveal the amazing tales of some of the things that could have come straight out of a Bond movie, the inappropriate offers of sex, and you will meet the amazing sister Mary Clara and her meeting with one of the famous Beatles back in the day. Travel throughout London and all the amazing sites this city offers and all on a driving lesson, or be part of being bombed twice in one day on two separate lessons, by the IRA. Learn about the Falkland Islands war, from the perspective of both sides. My book is a journey through the eyes of a professional driving instructor that will amaze you and also amuse you. It gives you a chronological history of the world events that affected London during this period, and of course about learning to drive a car. But in reality, the book is about people and how they can reveal so much about themselves whilst in the company of their driving instructor. With some amazing stories, and some scary situations, but above all humour. This book is a prequel to my first two books and a further look into the story of my life and my search for my own El Dorado. My first book published back in 2011 is called A Turnkey or Not? It is a biography of my 25-year service working in Her Majesty's Prisons and my second book El Dorado? No! Heathrow Airport is a follow on from the first book and continues my working career as a security officer working at one of the busiest airports in the world and people's behaviour when confronted with modern-day air travel.

With the exception of modern warfare, no other human activity has destroyed as many lives as driving a motor vehicle. Traffic crashes kill and injure thousands of Canadians every year at an incalculable financial and emotional cost to society—but rather than rush to stem this tide of human carnage, policy-makers seem to accept the ghastly toll as the price we pay for mobility. Driving Lessons takes a fresh look at the complexities of the road transportation system in depth, going far beyond the symptomatic, linear, reductionist approach. It challenges current traffic safety paradigms that simply blame the driver or target "villains and scapegoats" like impaired or high-risk drivers. It takes issue with road transportation system management that sometimes puts mobility ahead of the safety of road users. As one researcher notes, human beings will make mistakes, and accordingly, "the road transportation system must be designed so that people’s mistakes do not have disastrous consequences."