You Are the Designer of Your Life: Choosing the Path That Feels True

Linda Binns

Published on: 08/04/2026

Many of us have been taught to pursue a version of success that is structured and linear. We pursue this version of success often before we’ve had the chance to truly define and understand ourselves. Until there comes a point where we have a sense that the way we move through our lives matters just as much, if not more, than what we build along the way. In my recent conversation with Dr. Rebecca Kochenderfer, we explored what it really means to lead ourselves – from awareness, rather than from pressure or expectation. What unfolded wasn’t a conversation about achievement in the traditional sense, it was a conversation about relationship. The relationship we have with ourselves while we are building anything at all.