We can choose to react to our life or create it by proactively mapping out our goals and priorities.

The keys are defining what gives you purpose, your values, and imagining your ideal everyday life.

The challenges are avoding these questions by being passive, distracting yourself, or accepting what you get,

You’ve undoubtedly heard the phrase, “Life is what you make it.” At first glance, it seems to be about responding to and accommodating the challenges and opportunities, problems and hardships that come with being alive. But you can also hear it as a call to be proactive—the making—where life is less a workaround and more like a lump of clay you can shape and mold as you see fit.

Here are six questions and their challenges to help you design your life:

1. What do you want to invest your life doing?

This is the question you likely struggled with in high school or at the start of college—essentially, what do you want to be when you grow up?

The challenge is to think outside the box—not be constrained by family or cultural expectations—and tap into your potential: your talents........

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