Stay Motivated
What would I tell myself if I could go back in time and speak to myself when I was at school. And what do I wish someone told me. I have 3 very important things that I’m going to tell you that if you listen to and act on will change your life. You can achieve your dreams as long as you’re willing to keep learning and put in the work that is required.
The people you surround yourself with, the videos you watch and the books you read can either help you achieve your biggest goals or drag you down a lifetime road of hard knocks bumps and bruises
No matter what you choose to do in life you’re going to use maths and English. So don’t waste your time while you’re at school try your best and it will give you a head start in the world. Actually why not start working on your dreams while you’re at school or at least try to find out what those dreams might be.
I didn’t like school or get the point of it. I knew I wanted to become a professional Freestyle Motocross Rider, so why did I need maths and English. What I discovered was I need them both a lot. As soon as I left school that was confirmed for me, I needed maths every day from designing and building the ramps we jump to working out budgets for events. I’m very lucky maths is something that came easy to me.
English is one area of school I wish I tried harder in. It definitely was not something that came easy to me plus I couldn’t understand how reading novels about Romeo and Juliet was going to help me later in life, so it is an area I fell behind in.
Now I require the skills learnt in English regularly. Ranging from sending and reading daily emails to drafting proposals and contracts. I didn’t know I was going to need the skills learnt at school when I became a professional motocross rider I’m very thankful for the skills I did learn there.
One thing I will promise every person here. The skills you learnt at school will make catching your dreams much easier.
My Name is Brodie Carmichael, and I had a dream.
As a kid I was lucky in the sense I found something I loved to do when I was 12. I loved riding motor bikes; The only problem was I didn’t have a motor bike and my parents couldn’t afford to buy me one. This didn’t stop me, I asked every person I knew for a job until I was working every weekend and I saved every cent. For my 14th birthday my parents and granny and grand par chipped in and with all the money I had save we brought my first motorbike. It definitely wasn’t brand new but it had an engine and wheels so to me it was the best thing in the world. To this day a memory burned into my mind is when mum bought that bike home.
From then on all I wanted to do was ride.
If only it was that easy, I quickly learnt to keep a motor bike running wasn’t free and either was petrol. By this time I had a reputation in the area as being a young hard worker so as when a job became available at the local motocross track I got the call up for the job. This Job played a major part in my life as the encouragement from the business owner reinforced my belief in myself because if he thought I could make it as a professional rider then maybe I could.
He also gave me a lot of guidance when I first stated the sport as I went from a farm kid never touching a bike to competitively racing within two years. This kept me busy, outdoors and away from trouble. I was so focused on what I wanted to do, I will always be thankful to Blair from emu creek motocross park for this opportunity and support.
I didn’t have time to get into trouble like a lot of other kids my age. Every spare moment I was either riding my bike or working to make money to ride my bike and I loved every moment of it.
Boredom plays a big part in stupid mistakes and bad decisions.
I still did dumb things like most teenagers but most of those involved trips to the doctors after coming off my bike. Like most sports or anything for that matter, you need to practise. So, I became a student of the sport trying my very best to find new ways to get that bit better.
I didn’t always have the opportunity to ride motorbikes. But I remember not letting that hold me back. I learnt to backflip my pushbike into the dam at our property so I was ready for the day I did have a motorbike.
What I am trying to say is you can still work towards your goals without money. Find out everything you can about what is required to do what you want to do. Read a book about, what a YouTube video, listen to interviews from people doing it as they often talk about how they started and what was needed.
Start with what you have where you are.
Ask lots of questions look everywhere for answers and surround yourself with people who encourage you.
I want to help other kids achieve their dreams. We visit the schools and put on a demonstration, and we can see how inspired they are but that goes away after a few days if they didn’t have someone to support them and encourage them to keep going. I want to provide a place they can go and get that inspiration to stay motivated and to share tips that may help. We will add links to books, videos, podcasts and other websites that may be useful.
Riding dirt bikes for a living is a pretty good job to have
Riding with your mates, while getting to see the world and entertaining packed-out events and getting to meet some awesome people on the way, just makes it better.
Our calendar has been so full this year with events every weekend but we wouldn’t have it any other way.
