YOUR GOAL IS CLOSER
THAN YOU THINK!
By
JAMES T. MANGAN
Because it is a goal and diffi
cult to reach, you have convinced
yourself your goal is far, far
away. So far away that you
can’t even see it as you now start
staggering toward it with your
burden. Immediately the burden
becomes far more important,
more powerful, than the goal.
For the burden is with you,
pressing you down, begging, in
sisting that you stop your foolish
march toward the goal. How can
that imaginary thing, your goal,
justify all this misery, this pain,
this idiotic expenditure of good
energy when it is so impossible
for you to get there? If your
goal were only close by, if it
were visible, then the burden
could be endured. “But why
fight a losing battle,” says your
burden; “save yourself, retire,
call it all off,” pleads your bur
den, “and we’ll all be relieved
and happy!”
Even while your burden has
almost proven to you that your
goal is so far away it has no real
existence. Something in your
character, your manhood, keeps
repeating softly: “Don’t quit!
Keep going! Suffer, stagger,
stumble, but keep advancing!
Maybe you’ll get there in the
end!” So if you are a man, you
keep going, even while you be
lieve that the goal is practically
impossible of attainment.
But your goal is closer' thayi
you think! Your goal is a l w a y s
closer than you think. Because
it is a new thing, a hard and
strange thing, you have men
tally removed it too distantly
from your grasp. And the far
ther away you have placed it, the
harder it is to attain. You want
to quit even before you start
because it seems so impossible.
JAMES T. MANGAN, advertising mana
ger, Mills Novelty Co.
And the only thing impossible
about it is the imaginary inac
cessibility you yourself have
given it.
As you stagger and groan, as
temptation to quit overwhelms
you, say to yourself: “My goal
is closer than I think! It may
be just around this corner, over
this hill, right behind this im
posing obstacle!” Sweat and
despair may temporarily blind
your eyes, but keep going! Sud
denly your sight clears, you
wonder how you could have
traveled so fast, for here— right
within reach of your arms— is
your goal. It wasn’t hard at all
—it was close by all the time—
the real burden you were carry
ing was the product of your own
dreadful imagination.
Your goal is always closer
than you think! The very fact
that it is a goal, that it is your
goal, proves you have already
embraced it, that it is mentally
achieved, and therefore actually
nearby. You never could have
recognized it in your mind as a
real goal unless you knew your
heart, soul and body were able
to reach it.
You have started— don’t quit,
and see how fast you get to your
goal. It is closer than you think.
Quit— and infinity separates you
from it. Continue—and before
the fever of your desire burns
out you will have reached it.
In your past, every goal you
ever achieved you proved to be
much closer than you thought.
Immediately on reaching it, you
surprised yourself at getting
there so soon, with so much en
ergy and courage left in you. No
goal you ever reached was far
ther away than you figured. The
only ones that were far away
were those that you deserted
entirely!
GUARANTEE SHOWS TO BIG CROWD IN LOUISVILLE
Typical of the crowds that thronged all Wurlitzer distributors on National Wurlitzer Days
is this group snapped at Guarantee Distributing's Louisville showrooms. Here, as everywhere,
the Victory Model 950 received the lion's share of the attention. Wurlitzer's new speakers
also won a world of praise. All agreed Wurlitzer had scored a ten strike in combining low
current consumption with a new high in eye appeal.
AUTOMATIC AGE
February, 1942
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