It was over wine with a friend from college that I was asked about 9 Clouds.

“What do you do?” she asked.

“Well, we teach people to use technology so they can find customers and grow their businesses. We call it digital literacy.”

“That’s so great. You always said you wanted to connect people and now you get to do that as your business.”

I’ve reflected on that comment from someone who knew me 10 years ago. It’s true, when I was in college I was a connector. I loved getting groups of different friends together and introducing good people that I thought should know one another. This continued as I travel across the ocean and forged relationships with friends from around the globe. It seemed wherever I went, I wanted to meet and connect.

Somehow, this goal faded in my mind. I started to focus more on learning and creating a company that educates and inspires others. Now with the mirror held up I realized I am doing what I always said I wanted to do. And I didn’t even know it.

We all had that response. What we truly wanted to do. Maybe it was when we were young and too naive to kill a dream (I want to be a baseball player!). Or maybe as we grew up and went through school/work/life we mentioned to our close friends what we would love to spend our time doing.

Most of us could not even imagine 10, 5, 1 year ago what types of jobs are possible today. However, despite the change of titles and roles, the goals remain the same. You may want to connect people, like I did. You can do that in innumerable ways. Maybe you want to teach people, or help people, or excite people or entertain people.

Whatever your goal, you can find a way to do exactly that. It might be in your current job, it might be on the side or it might be sometime in the future. But every now and then, don’t forget to hold up the mirror and look back at that younger version of yourself and ask, am I doing what I always wanted to?