Bridget Marsh

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."

Frederico Fellini

I grew up in Northland New Zealand and had an idyllic childhood climbing trees, performing in plays, riding horses, camping, sailing and travelling.  I moved through school without too many hiccups and found myself at university where I did not excel first time round.   So I set off on the big OE.  13.5 years later after many adventures, 25,000 nautical miles in yachts I returned to New Zealand where I found ample opportunity to work and explore what life had to offer next. 

After I turned 40 I began serious personal development work and started to be coached, to attend workshops, write a journal, meditate and reflect. I expected to see changes, to notice differences in the world around me.  What I experienced was quite the opposite in many ways.  What I learnt and continue learning every day is the experiences don’t change, life continues to throw challenges my way on a regular basis. It is only what I do with the challenges and experiences that is changing.  It is the way I choose to respond that makes the experience valuable and useful; it is in choosing responses and actions that I move towards my true goals and objectives.

I have learnt that the choices I make come from my values and beliefs.  Sometimes these choices move me toward my goals and sometimes away from them.  And as I learn to respond more and more with the question  “what can or do I need to learn here?”  I find that I am increasingly grateful for every challenge, every opportunity.  When approached in this way each decision is a valuable experience supporting my growth.

And now it seems that the world is a different place – kinder, more forgiving and more giving. I get more of what I want – everyday.

I have had wonderful adventures so far in my life, spending many years living on a yacht and sailing the oceans of the world, returning to New Zealand and building a school for the performing arts, creating and running my own businesses, being married and having two loving caring sons, living the lifestyle I desire on a small block of land with nature as my inspiration every day. 

But the thing that gives me the most fulfilment is knowing that I make a difference in the lives of the people I work with.  And that difference is helping make the world a better place.

 The only thing that matters - are the actions we take.  Thoughts never changed the world.