It’s amazing how often this happens. You are desperate to get a certain something achieved so you slog your socks off for what seems like an eternity - yet it just doesn’t seem to be going your way. You follow expert advice, you brainstorm, you do your warm-ups, you practise like hell. You do all the right things, in fact. Eventually, after a superhuman effort, the thing you are working at reaches a stage where it’s sort of OK - but still, it’s not really there. Something jus