Charlotte Auto Accident Prevention – One New Skill at a Time
Reducing your risk for a Charlotte auto accident can be a formidable task, in that your current “driving game” may have many issues and constraints.
For instance, maybe you are constantly driving while fatigued. Or maybe you have a tendency to get angry at other drivers who cut you off. Or maybe you simply have failed to get your car inspected and “tweaked” for optimum road performance.
Given all of the other “stuff” in your life, it’s easy enough to let your bad driving slide.
You know you probably need to do something about it. But you are not sure what you should do or how you should do it. Furthermore, how should you prioritize the “something you need to do” against all the other stuff that seems urgent and important in your life?
If you have recently been in a car accident in North Carolina, the experience was likely something of a wake-up call. Even if the accident was someone else’s fault – and you get good help from the team here at DeMayo Law or some other firm to obtain compensation and justice and closure with respect to the crash – you still need to manage your personal driving issues.
Think of improving your driving as like improving your golf swing.
As any professional golfer will tell you, the simple act of swinging a club is actually not so simple at all. Indeed, it can be a terribly complicated act, even for the pros. Fixing your golf swing cannot be done overnight. You need to focus on one kind of improvement at a time. For instance, your teacher might tell you to keep your head down when you swing. And then you practice that skill again and again and again, until it becomes “grooved in” and automatic and intuitive. Then you move on to the next skill, and then the next one, and so forth.
But if you try to tackle everything at once, you get overloaded and you get better at nothing.
Likewise, if you’re trying to improve your driving skills, pick one current constraint that’s holding you back from being a better driver and work on that. For instance, maybe you’re constantly slightly fatigued when you get behind the wheel. If that’s true, think about what you can do to improve your level of general alertness. Can you get more sleep? Can you ask your boss if you can come in half an hour later? Can you drink a little more coffee? Can you improve your diet or exercise routine a little bit?
Focus on one thing – for instance, making sure that you’re more alert when you drive – and then “groove in” that habit and then focus on the next habit down the line and so forth.
This might seem like a tedious, seemingly inconsequential exercise. But think about the profound impact this exercise might have on your chances of lifetime safety behind the wheel. It suddenly becomes far less trivial. Doesn’t it?
