Day Three: Get on 1,000 Rocket Ships

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" If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat. Just get on." - Sheryl Sandberg

Perri asked me a really great question for today's blog post, "What advice would you give your younger self about life?"

Senior year is a pretty over overwhelming but extremely exciting time. I am thinking about whats next while reflecting what has occurred during my college career.

If you were to go back and ask freshman year Courteney what she would be doing as a senior at Arizona State, you would have gotten a completely different story from were I am currently.

I probably would have said that I would have just come back from a sales internship at a major american company and would be on track to graduate with a degree in Business Management. I never really planned on being a triple major or studying abroad multiple times or working as an intern with a venture fund. I would have defiantly never guessed that I would be attending Draper University my senior year simply because the opportunity didn't exist yet.

That's the best part of my college career is I never planned those opportunities I just got on a lot of rocket ship and some of them just happened to launch.

However, in order to be able to hop on a ship at any given moment, you have to have your ducks in order. So by having a open mindset, being willing to ask lots of questions and not being afraid of getting rejected, I was able to find opportunities that opened a lot of other doors.

Through out college I always had the mindset of "its worth a try and the worse that could happen is they say no". Which lead me to a variety of different things, which opened up different passions along the way. These golden nuggets I found have lead me to a better place in my career then I had a originally planned.

So the advice I would give my younger self or to others would be, it's Okay. It's okay, that you changed your mind on what you wanted, or it's okay that you didn't get into a certain program. Allowing yourself to try big scary ideas and also allowing yourself to fail is the best way to find the best path for you.

It's okay if they first ten things you try from don't work out because as long as you keep at experimenting your bound to find the rocket ship that takes you to the moon.

Cheers,

Courteney