So, here’s my commitment and planned absences:
- Commitment: practice at least six days a week (average), excluding planned absences.
- Dealing with planned absences and work: I will generally know in advance when I can’t practice, so I’ll report those in this thread. Sometimes things come up (usually at work) that I didn’t foresee and I end up missing a day. Thats why I’m aiming for an average.
- Summer planned absences: I have my mother coming to stay this Wednesday, so I will miss some days but my aim is to practice at least every other day while she’s here. I also have travel planned in July and August, so won’t have access to a piano during that time.
- Lesson days: on days when I have a piano lesson, I may or may not practice at home. Even if I don’t play at home, that will still count as a piano day.
Hopefully this is an acceptable way to do it?
As an aside, I started a new position at a new uni in Aug. 2023 and the first semester was so insane, there were weeks when I didn’t touch my piano. In spring semester, I gradually was able to make more time for piano and then started taking lessons again, which helped me get back into actively pursuing new music. Since May I have been averaging 5 days a week of practice (sometimes more)l even during the week that we moved. Besides the fact that I want to start finding music friends in my new town and playing for other people, just having piano as part of my daily life makes such a difference for me, both in terms of my playing level but also in terms of my overall feelings of contentedness.
So I want to have daily practice as part of my life, but it takes intentionality and planning, and PACT will help with that.
Thanks to everyone who’s here doing it! 😊
Ok, let’s go PACT for July!!!