An Olympic gold medalist was in Sarnia-Lambton Thursday afternoon to encourage local residents to have no regrets.
Bobsledder and multi-sport athlete Heather Moyse was at the Holiday Inn Point Edward for Enbridge Famous 5 Speaker Series.
Moyse, who's best known for her the two Olympic gold medals she won in Vancouver and Socchi, said success starts with believing in yourself.
"It's really just grasping onto the possibilities because really, there are no guarantees -- I mean, life happens," said Moyse. "So pursuing things should be about setting your goals high enough and kind of embracing and loving the challenge to see how close you can to get them. Without pushing yourself, you'll never actually discover what you're capable of."
The 40-year-old native of Summerside, PEI also represented Canada on the national stage in both rugby and cycling during her athletic career.
She told the hundreds of people in attendance that the qualities it takes to be a world-class athlete, are the same qualities that can help you achieve success.
"The successful industries and businesses, when we've had economic slumps or when things are going wrong, it's the ones who decide that they're going to embrace that challenge of finding a solution and most often become more successful because they thought outside the box," she said.
Moyse's speech covered a wide-variety of experiences she's had throughout her life-- she spoke about how her 4th place finish at the 2006 Olympics motivated her to her gold medals at the next two Winter Olympics. She talked about her challenge of climbing a mountain in Antarctica and related it to taking one step at a time to achieve your goals.
But what drew the biggest reaction was Moyse's story about a letter of inspiration she sent to the Canadian women's hockey team just before their gold medal showdown with the US in 2014.
The note Heather Moyse and teammate Kaillie Humphries delivered to the Canadian Women's Hockey Team.
Moyse said team captain Hayley Wickenheiser read the message aloud before the game, the note was taped to their dressing room door, and as they say, the rest is history -- the Canadians won 3-2.
Moyse said she lives her life with no regrets, and hopes you will too.
"I think if you make your decisions with the idea of having no regrets in mind, then at the end you'll have nothing to look back on and question whether you could've done more," said Moyse.
Heather Moyse in Point Edward. February 7, 2019.
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