Lately, while driving, I've noticed repeatedly that if I lived life like I am supposed to drive, I would avoid many life errors. I am learning that defensive driving techniques transferred over to life can help me to become more successful in this game of life.
According to the National Safety Council's Defensive Driving Course, to drive defensively is driving to save lives, time and money in spite of the conditions around you and the actions of others. What a great life goal! Everyday we begin our day on what many call the road of life. Let me ask you, are you defensive living?
You are in the driver seat of your life. It is up to you to learn the techniques of defensive living. Though other people may not understand how to live a happy helpful life, you must accept it. And quite frankly, defensive living is designed for that purpose. If done accurately, it will prepare you for situations when you must interact with those who aren't looking out for your best interest as well as when you find yourself in an atmosphere that can be considered difficult or maybe just a little out of the norm.
Accidents
Car accidents are easy to describe as detrimental, but do we ever view our words or actions towards other people in the same way? Sometimes we have social accidents. Life accidents where we have the option to do the right thing, perhaps save a life, save time and money in spite of our conditions. How about this, have you ever found yourself blaming another for bad moments in our life? How could you have prevented it?
Defensive Living, means preparing and understanding the people around you and appreciating the fact that most hiccups can be avoided if we take the necessary steps to avoid them. We must understand the dangers around us natural and unnatural so that we may prepare for them if they may ever occur.
Tickets
Tickets! Don't they just make you want to scream? We all hate penalties. We don't like when we hear, "You owe us." Especially when we are paying the price for something we don't even want...a parking ticket. Nevertheless, how do we avoid them? The easiest answer is to obey the rules. That is simple enough, and it's true, but there is more to it than that. Most people want to obey the law, or follow the rules. However, there is an additional step to avoiding tickets, you have to be able to read the signs.
And in reality, the first step to reading signs is to look for them. When you park you must look for the signs to read, when you are driving on the expressway, or even down the street you have to look for the signs to read so that you don't make a mistake that will reward you with a ticket.
So how does this apply to life? Very easy, look for the signs to read. When you are driving your eyes are supposed to be focused on the road, and when you are living you should also focus on the road of life. After a while, you begin to recognize situations. For instance, when you get into a residential area, you begin to look for Stop Signs. In life, scenarios can begin to become familiar as well, and at that moment don't ignore it, look for the signs, and suddenly you will know what to do. Because what do signs do? They direct you.
In reality, I can probably go through a hundred plus scenarios that demonstrate how driving can reflect life. I think the point is that when you are driving, for most of us, we get into a serious, focused mode. We begin to think defensively. We want to be safe. We want to make the right decisions. If we lived everyday with that mindset of a driver, I think we could be better prepared for life. Living like you are defensive driving, also known as defensive living is weighed in at 800lbs, not a ton in consideration of those who do not drive...yet.
Weighing Defensive Living
Submitted by: Jamees Wright
Weight Total: 800lbs Important
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