American crooner Andy Williams had a 1960s hit with Almost There.
It could have been made for Joe Hockey with his G20 hat on.
Although the G20 is falling short of its target to lift global growth by additional two per cent with just a few months until the leaders summit in November, the fact that it's in a cooee of it is quite an achievement.
As a figure, two per cent doesn't sound a lot.
But as a proportion of world economic growth it's huge, amounting to trillions of dollars.
Corralling a broad range of countries to agree on anything is something in itself, and when there is a score of them ... the mind boggles.
So there is still a lot to cheer about, even though last weekend's G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers discovered that the near-1000 growth initiatives so far put forward by the world's richest nations amounts to 1.8 per cent.
"We are 90 per cent there," the Australian treasurer boasted after the two-day meeting in Cairns, the last big G20 gig on home soil prior to the Brisbane summit.
Hockey is the first to concede there was a reasonable degree of scepticism about Australia hosting the G20 when it was announced by the previous Labor government.
But he now seems pleased that Labor did.
"At the beginning of the year there was no global growth target for the world," he told parliament.
"We laid down, at some risk, a two per cent global target to increase economic growth, to increase the size of the global economy by $2 trillion, to create 20 million new jobs."
The carefully crafted, two-page communique - brevity being Australia's commitment during its 2014 presidency - contained 10 discussion points.
These include the five-year growth plan, a global infrastructure initiative, progress on financial regulation and a strong commitment to stamp out tax evasion by multinational companies.
At face value, Hockey, as G20 co-chair with Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens, seems to be steering the group in the right direction.
But oh to be a fly on the wall at these closed door events.
You do get the sense that it's perhaps not all back slapping and high-fives, even though they appear to be working together as a cohesive unit.
Take the comments of US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew after the meeting: "I think the discussions over this weekend have showed a growing recognition that Europe is going to need to do more to get its economy where is should be."
It needs to boost demand in the short term, while making structural changes for the long run.
It shouldn't become a choice between the two, Lew believes.
To some, that's a bit rich coming from a nation only just getting back into stride after being at the core of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis.
The term "fiscal cliff" was also born in the United States after the crisis and political congressional wrangling over it nearly sent the world into another recession.
But Lew went on.
"Europe is going to need to solve its problems, resolve the differences it has internally," he said.
After a thousand years of differences, that is definitely easier said than done.
But European countries are equally concerned about their subdued growth and high unemployment.
On the sidelines of the Cairns meeting, French finance minister Michel Sapin was asked whether Germany should be doing more to support the Euro area given its economy is in surplus.
"Germany never boasts about surpluses, they just mention them," Sapin replied, which was either a witty response or something lost in the English translation.
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