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You are cordially invited to join the Practice Accountability Challenge - Team 2025 (that's PACT2025)! The challenge starts January 1st.

This is a team-oriented accountability challenge designed to energize and support everyone's piano practice. PACT tracks any amount of time on your piano practice (that can be 5 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour - that's completely up to you!)

There are no PACT police. The challenge is based on the honor system. You get to choose which instrument to use, and what activities effectively and meaningfully support your practice. PACT is meant to be flexible, welcoming, and encouraging rather than competitive. Ideally, everyone thrives and completes the challenge!

CHALLENGE GUIDELINES

  1. Join this challenge by adding a comment to this thread with your pledge to participate.

  2. Signing up is your pledge to engage in activities that effectively and meaningfully support your piano practice for any amount of time, every day, for the whole year.

  3. We have no means to distribute a forum award, apart from a pat you can give yourself on the back when you complete the challenge. We'd love to hear about your accomplishments and challenges throughout the year.

  4. You may join the challenge at any time, but anyone who joins after August 1st of the challenge year will be considered a late starter.

  5. Unexpected events happen that derail even the best laid plans. By signing up, you also pledge to report any absences by leaving a comment in this thread. If you want to explain why you've missed a day (make us laugh, make us cry, make us cheer), you may be as dramatic as you want, but only the date(s) that you didn't practice are mandatory for the report.

  6. We will see your comment and add your absence(s) to the list posted at the bottom of this invitation.

2025 PACTICIPANTS

EXCUSED ABSENCES (the E-List)

    Sophia changed the title to PianoTell's 2nd Annual Practice Accountability Challenge - Team 2025 (PACT2025) .

    Thanks for adding me to the list!

    My goal is the same as every year: practice every day I'm home, which means I might have some breaks for vacations, business trips, etc.

    You're quite welcome 🙂 Well you said you were in for 2025, so I added you already 😃

    I pledge the same: ideally I'll practice each day, and if I can't make it for some reason, I'll report in this thread... I can't believe I am about to make my first anniversary without a single break - I had not expected that. Thanks to PACT 🏆

    I never signed up, but I practised every day this year until Christmas day, when a nasty virus broke my clean record. Annoying! It felt quite weird, skipping a day, daily practice is ingrained in me now.

    "Don't let's ask for the moon, we have the stars." (Final line from Now,Voyager, 1942)

    Oof, hope you feel better now, Nightowl!

    Hi all, please sign me up for PACT2025. Wish you all a great year 2025 !

    I would love to join this challenge. Sign me up, please!

    For sure 😃 The more the merrier... I added you to the list. Welcome aboard!

    • TLH21

    • Post #11

    I'm in!

    Happy New Year all.

    • Sophia

    • Post #12

    You're added to the list as well @TLH21 😄

    I'm in as well. Thanks @Sophia

    More than happy to add you to the list, @Gooseberry 🙂

    I'm in! 😊

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    ... feeling like the pianist on the Titanic ...

    Welcome to PACT, Animisha - you're added as well 🙂

    Thank you for adding me @Sophia !

    My PACT goal for 2025: to average 5 days/week across the whole year. My stretch goal is to average more than 6 days/week. The only times I "excuse" myself are when I'm traveling for business. (in 2024, my yearly average was about 5 days/week, but my average was higher for the second half, when PACT started, so that's what I'm aiming for)

    As I mentioned in the other thread, I'm not good at keeping up with these big threads, but I will be recording my practice days as I did in 2024 and I'll try to check in here periodically!

    🙂

    4 days later

    I'm in for 2025!

    • Sophia

    • Post #19
    • Edited

    And then there were ten 😃 You're added to the list, @bSharp, welcome!

    14 days later

    "Into each life some rain must fall", and we've been in a bit of a family rough spot this past week. I haven't been playing since Friday the 17th will add my absence to the E-list. I will put the end date on today, because I'm fully planning to be back at the piano tomorrow... if not, I'll extend the time 🙂

    First time on the E-list and the first one to be added in 2025!