Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Heather Moyse on How to Create a Gold Medal Mindset | EP 538
Tue, 26 Nov 2024
In this episode of Passion Struck, John R. Miles welcomes Heather Moyse, a four-time Olympian, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and World Rugby Hall of Fame Inductee, to discuss cultivating a resilient mindset. Heather shares her transformative shift from a "Can I?" approach to a "How can I?" approach, empowering individuals to focus on solutions and embrace challenges as opportunities for growth.Reflecting on her upbringing in Prince Edward Island and her unexpected leap into bobsledding at 27, Heather highlights the importance of setting ambitious goals, overcoming self-doubt, and redefining what’s realistic. Drawing from her book Redefining Realistic, she inspires listeners to confront self-limiting beliefs and take actionable steps toward their dreams. This episode is a powerful reminder of the potential within all of us to achieve more than we imagine.Link to the full show notes: https://passionstruck.com/heather-moyse-how-to-create-a-gold-medal-mindset/Call to Action: Don’t let self-doubt hold you back from your full potential. Resilience starts with shifting your mindset from "Can I?" to "How can I?" What’s one challenge you’re ready to tackle with this new perspective? Share it in the comments and take the first step toward turning obstacles into opportunities. Let’s inspire and empower each other to redefine what’s possible!Sponsors: Mint Mobile: Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at “MINT MOBILE dot com slash PASSION.” Hims: Start your journey to regrowing hair with Hims. Visit hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK for your free online visit. Quince: Discover luxury at affordable prices with Quince. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at quince.com/PASSION. In this episode, you will learn: Shift from "Can I?" to "How can I?": Changing the question from a binary "Can I?" to an open-ended "How can I?" encourages a focus on solutions and possibilities rather than limitations. Embrace Challenges: Viewing challenges as opportunities to learn and grow can foster resilience. Instead of fearing failure, approach goals with curiosity about how close you can achieve them. Visualization and Goal Breakdown: Breaking goals into smaller, manageable steps and visualizing the process can help maintain motivation and clarity on the path forward. Support Systems: A strong support system that values you for who you are rather than your performance can provide a safety net that encourages risk-taking and exploration. Gamify the Process: Treating goal achievement as a game—asking "How close can I get?"—can make the journey enjoyable and reduce the pressure associated with high-stakes outcomes. 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Chapter 1: What mindset shift does Heather Moyse advocate for?
For example, can I become the number one podcaster in the world?
whatever it is that goal might be if it's a can I that only leaves a binary option of answers yes or no and if it's something that someone really wants and it's just seems just so enormous then they're probably going to be like well if my choices are yes or no then if the answer is going to be probably not so then why bother trying whereas if you don't even ask that question can I but you say how can I it immediately turns shifts your focus into solutions it immediately is
You're not even thinking about whether you can or not. You're just thinking, how would I be able to do this?
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Chapter 2: What role does family play in Heather's upbringing?
They would say, oh my goodness, that would be so amazing. How do you think, what do you think it would take to get there? Or what are the, what do you think an astronaut would need to know? Or how do you think you could actually become an astronaut? And it starts getting you thinking at the age of four, five, six, seven, eight. you start thinking about how, what are the solutions to get there?
How could this be possible? What are the different ways to get there? And so it automatically shifts that focus. If it's something like my sister, for example, and I wrote this in my book with her restrained permission, my sister, when she was little, wanted to grow up to become a chickadee. Okay. So she's obviously not going to transform herself into a physical bird.
But again, my parents, I mean, do they really need to tell her she's not going to do that? There's no point in doing that. There's no point in squashing that dream or that vision or that fantasy. And so all they said was, wow, that would be so cool. What's the first thing that you would do if you were to become a chickabee? All that's doing is filling out your imagination.
All it's doing is visualization. All it's doing is creating these skills when you're young that you will automatically apply later when you're older. And so a lot of people didn't have that benefit. And I feel almost a huge sense of responsibility for
to help be that person for other people, to help show them different ways of thinking or different ways of looking at things because they didn't have the benefit of having that automatically growing up when they were younger. And of course, when you're young and you're playing sports all the time, injuries happen, like little injuries and whatever injuries and all that stuff.
And so it's from early on, it was like, well, what can I do in the meantime? What are the, like, how can I still keep up my strength or my power or my,
how can I still do all of these things how can I still work on this skill while I can't do these things and so that stuff I it's hard to pinpoint because it just came naturally I think growing up or I wouldn't say naturally but it came from the environment I grew up in and that stuff has now I feel lucky to be passing that on to other people different ways of looking at things or would I mean I started work I worked with people with disabilities for years and part of that was
well, I also have my master's degree in occupational therapy. So working with clients or with patients, it was, you've just had a stroke. So you can't do those things right now. What can we do in the meantime?
Or what can we, if this is your ultimate goal, you might not be able to do it the same way you've always done it before, but how can we find a way for you to still get the enjoyment out of what used to bring you joy before? How can we still find that joy in that, just in a different way? I don't, John, that's not a very straightforward answer, but I hope I touched on it a little bit.
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Chapter 3: How did Heather transition to bobsledding at age 27?
I think my purpose, I actually think that my athletic gifts were almost a means to an end, almost like a, I think they just afforded me a platform from which I can now empower other people. And I think that's what I was meant to do is help others see the possibilities in their lives, regardless of whatever challenges they're facing.
And I think that is my purpose, helping other people see the possibilities and empowering them. And what's interesting is that that actually didn't just come after my sports that actually came in the middle with bobsledding. I almost stopped competing because I was tired of the small P politics and the mind games and all of these things happening behind the scenes that
I just didn't, I didn't agree with, and I didn't enjoy. And it was just very frustrating to be in the middle of all of that stuff. And so I just, at one point I said, you know what? I was, my dad had a meeting in Toronto and he was, we were going out for dinner, picked me up and I was pretty emotional. And I just received an email from someone, not a great email.
And I just, I was just like, you know what? Winning a medal is not worth dealing with all this stuff. I don't care. It's not worth it. I'm done. Like I'm, it's not worth it. And my dad who would support me in any of my decisions at all with respect to sports, he just said, Oh, well, I mean, if that's the best thing for you, then absolutely. We'll support you a hundred percent.
But it's funny that you said it's winning a medal is not worth it. I said, what do you mean? He goes, well, I guess I just never thought it was about winning a medal with you. I just always thought about the amount of people you'd be able to inspire and empower just by doing what you're doing, just by being part of this.
And he right in that moment just switched my, he basically changed my why from winning a medal to further down the spectrum, which was empowering other people and inspiring other people. And so this is the importance of your why. Simon Sinek talks about your why mostly in business, but when you're talking about it for your personal self,
In my book, I talk about your root why, and that's asking the question of why do you do it? Okay, well, why is that important? And why is that important? And why is that important? And it gets you further along. And the whole point of that is that the further down you can go to getting out what your actual reason is, the further along the spectrum you can go, your breaking point spectrum.
So at first, winning a medal was not worth it. My breaking point was right here. But as soon as I realized... what another why was, and something which was much more profound for me, all of a sudden my breaking point got further and further along. So I was able to handle all those other things.
I was able to become a bit more resilient to that stuff because I knew what was waiting on the other end, or I knew what was possible on the other end. So I think that's where I discovered what my purpose was. Now, after sports was done, finding out for sure my means of delivering that purpose and continuing that on, that's,
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