Back before they had a name, before a generation crowned such things as “vision boards” and started talking about “manifesting” their dreams, Cherie DeVaux wrote down her goals and pinned the notes to her bedroom walls.
Sports, grades, life – whatever it was that the self-described Type A personality was seeking that year, she’d jot it down.
DeVaux got so invested in setting her standards that her mother, Janet, worried she might be aiming a little too high. “Don’t you think that’s a little lofty?” Janet once said to her daughter.
“And then as I pulled down one by one, I was like, ‘OK, mom. Tell me what else I can’t do,’” DeVaux said.
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