Managing Change is one of the most requested topics for guest speakers. The emergence of new technologies is continuously shifting the way we navigate our personal and professional lives, and these shifts are happening faster than ever before. Change can be overwhelming but by altering our mindsets we can learn from it, manage it, and use it to become better, more effective leaders. Here are 5 quotes to get you excited about the future and the possibilities that Change can bring:

“Researcher Richard Wiseman, in his article “The Luck Factor,” says that if you are an apple picker and you keep coming back to the same trees every day, eventually you’re going to run out of fruit.”
– Shawn Achor, Before Happiness: The 5 Hidden Keys to Achieving Success, Spreading Happiness, and Sustaining Positive Change

“When you are focused on growth you look forward to change and all that the change entails because you know that there is ‘richness’ on the other side of the change. You are willing to do what is necessary in the moment to get to the goal.” –Cheryl Cran

“Adversity and challenges are life’s way of creating strength. Adversity creates challenge, and challenge creates change, and change is absolutely necessary for growth. If there is no change and challenge, there can be no growth and development.” –Willie Jolley from A Setback Is a Set up for a Comeback

“Fly through life at the edge; the middle is crowded and grey. Whether you are leading a company or a team, or building and expanding your own business, success today means thinking and leading others in new and unexplored ways, out at the edges.” – Janet Lapp

“Every improvement is a result of change; not every change is an improvement. The past still has value; it just can’t have a veto. Leaders at all levels must be decisive, action-oriented, open and flexible as they take the best from the past and the future to help form the ‘new good old days’ in their organizations.” – Terry Paulson