"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

Mr Micawber, from Charles Dicken's David Copperfield

in my mind, there is a stubborn little collection of neurons who secretly believe:

"Come on Jerry, who are you kidding? You can never speak Japanese fluently. First - you're too damned old. Second - you have never been good at languages. Third - your memory is almost totally screwed by all your years of drinking."

Would an affirmation help in countering all that garbage?

An affirmation is an invention - aspiring to become what isn't existing yet. It's an act of creation. So do I say:

1. "I will... as in "this is going to happen."

or

One of the last London participants to share is Paul Marsh.

Paul Marsh is a writer, an Editor of an Environmental magazine, and a ready-to-take-the plunge guy - to transform his life into full-time Alexscovery teaching in Glasgow.

He saw my London workshop as an opportunity to get his reboot happening.