Change is upon us, learn to embrace change and you can thrive in your life.

Five Ways to Start Thriving in Your Life

We are not made to merely survive, we are made to thrive. We're meant to be the creators of our lives. Anything we can dream about, we can create.

What does it take to start thriving in your life and to get back to being the creator of your life?

Here are five ways you can do that for yourself.

1. Turn uncertainty into action. Uncertainty often gets in the way of taking that first step towards our goals. If you're going to make progress this year, allow yourself to feel that uncertainty and take action anyway.

You can get to a place of certainty by changing your physiology. Take as much time as you can spare 10 minutes a day, an hour three times a week and focus on what your excited about, what you want to create, and what you want to bring to the world. Concentrate on certainty in the way you move and the way you breathe. Make this your ritual, and you will feel a change in your state of mind and in your levels of certainty.

2. Focus on your vision. What we choose to focus on has a massive effect on how we feel. If you focus on the things you can't control, you feel stressed, overwhelmed and depressed. Leaders focus on what they can control: what they have, and what they want.

To thrive this year, focus on creating compelling future. Pick a goal or dream that you want so much, you're going to be compelled to make it happen.

Focus equals power. If you want to thrive, you have to focus on the things you can control. You'll discover the difference it makes.

3. Be decisive. Nothing changes through life like real decision. When you make a decision and commit to it, it's amazing what mountains you can move.

Decisiveness is the ability to make a decision even when you're uncertain. Most people don't have the guts to make tough decisions because they want to make the right ones so they make no decision at all. If you're going to be the leader of your own life, you're going to need to make decisions. Whether those decisions are right or wrong, you're going to find out a lot quicker than if you do nothing.

4. Commit to change. Don't like your body? Your relationship? Your job? Change it. We all get caught up in our own self-doubt. If you don't act, your dreams will die in your mind when you make a decision, commit yourself to it but taking the first step toward it right then and there. Otherwise, you could click up in other things and he won't make any headway.

What's one small decision you could make right now that would take you in the direction you need to go? What's a big decision that might be real tough but will take you in the new direction in your life? Make them both and take commit to those first steps right here and now.

5. Give back. The key to thriving in your life is remembering that the secret to living is giving. This doesn't always mean volunteering in the soup kitchen. It's also about the choices you make in your day-to-day life putting down your phone to talk to your kids or kissing your spouse with the same fire you had when you started dating. 

Most of us are moving so fast. As a result, we are thriving. If you want to thrive, you have to remember that it's not about me, it's about we. We're here for more than just ourselves.

The next time you're feeling uncertain, remind yourself that you're the creator of your life, not a manager of circumstances. Put yourself in a place of giving, certainty and decisiveness, follow the steps above and nail down your vision for what you want. Before you know it, you're going to find yourself thriving.